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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 4485126, member: 8240"] We can all speculate but Marinelli will make choices based on what's important to him and his family and what's best for long term career success. Maybe even without our input. Look at his history. Played for and then coached with his father before taking the head coaching job nearby at his father's biggest rival. Then two years in Arizona and one in Illinois as an analyst before joining UConn for his first college coaching job. He and his wife have a son that will be two years old in April. So, what's most important for him? Family, stability, steady growth in his job or becoming as young a college Head Coach as he possibly can? It looked like family/stability until he broke away from CT to take the jobs in Arizona and Illinois. But, if he only cared about his career would he have left Illinois and the B1G for UConn after one year? He's doing well in his first college coaching job but building and managing a program is light years more complex than coaching a position and using his contacts to help recruit the state. He knows that and he knows how much he can learn from JM. So, unless he's been told there will be no pay raises at UConn, does he leave to build and run a college program with limited resources in order to get a $30,000 raise? My guess is he'd discuss any opportunities with his father, and with JM, and not jump at his first chance to be a head coach. Sometimes the best move is no move. [/QUOTE]