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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4121570, member: 591"] Yes, Chris actually wanted the Rutgers job, apparently, and was a tad put out by being passed over. Perhaps, as has happened at other programs, they wanted to sever connections completely to TG. There was a 10 year stretch where Rutgers was about the 9th or 10th best program in WBB by a whole bunch of metrics. Of course, they never won a NC. I'm not sure (one way or the other) whether Chris would have outperformed Vivian during that period. As CVS aged and as the program has been less successful, with Chris somewhat younger, perhaps. Again, playing against UConn - except for beating them - did nothing for CVS's recruiting. Players largely came for CVS's name; witness the huge bunch of players that came after Rutgers was national runner-up in 2007 as well; success is a huge component of recruiting. The benefit of the oBE was not solely UConn - it was the fact that it was a very strong conference 8 or more deep. [/QUOTE]