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Message: [QUOTE="maple, post: 4851407, member: 7970"] All things being equal, and excluding situations of coaches who have a proven good (or bad) track record and would not likely move the needle much (e.g., good coaches can come in and maintain good programs, bad coaches can come in and maintain bad programs) ... There's way more pressure on you to maintain a certain level of success when you take over a strong program. There's a lot more scrutiny and the second you stumble, people will be calling for you to be fired. And if the program begins to significantly decline under your tenure, yikes. When you're rebuilding a weak program, there's a lot more leniency, and even mediocrity, if it's better than what existed before, will start to look not so bad. And then you can build off of that. It's a lot nicer to say you took a bad program and made it good, rather than to say you took a good program and made it bad. [/QUOTE]