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Another productive discussion about the thread topic at ubfan.com 🙂

Our search wasn't the disaster that St. John's is in the midst of, but I would argue it was poorly executed. We hired an internal candidate after a significant delay. Our recruiting class bailed during this transition- aside from Andre Allen, the decisions were announced deliberately, well into the search. A more decisive move to ensure continuity (Whitesell or He Who Won't Be Named) may have prevented some of the defections. Our coaching hire was announced on the Saturday of the Final Four. The press conference was Monday. This prevented any appreciable networking/interviewing of assistant coaches at the prime event for such wheeling and dealing each year. As such, we are still down an assistant coach, and just hired our second. It also prevented us from regaining any recruiting momentum (hired during a dead period). Lastly, we wasted resources hiring a search firm only to select an internal candidate. This, alone, is damning. IMO, the decision (internal vs. external) needed to have been made months prior. Oats was walking- we all listened to "Gonzaga of the East" but he always added "leave for stupid money." Stupid money was surely coming this off-season. ADMA was not prepared. Love that Whitesell has the support of our returning players. I will accept the supposition that he is a superior basketball mind to Hodgson. Time will tell if he was the right selection. But the coaching search was poorly executed and cost us precious momentum, even if he ultimately proves to be the right man for the job.

I don't see how anything Kevin has said in this thread could come off as confusing in any way.

Apologies for the side topic, but I have never understood the reason for locking any thread. IMO, fan boards should be open to all opinions. For example, my recent continuation of the original ‘operation 6000’ thread posted years ago. Back to this thread... That’s the root of my recent discussion with Kevin. Readers don’t know where his option ends, and where the facts begin. Being a fan board, I take all comments as opinion. But, he defends them as fact. I don’t know if he is Kevin the poster, or Kevin the media.

Same here. I don’t understand what the issue is

I actually looked at this yesterday, since 2008 only 4.3% of participants have been drafted. On average those players are mid second round picks (43.667). I also see very little correlation between production per minute in the tournament and odds of getting drafted. So I'd say this has a mostly negligible effect on anyone's draft stock.

Just your average day on UB fan 😌

Shoulda been locked like everything else you don’t want discussed.

The content is welcomed, not annoying. The attitude that you are better than all other fan board posters is annoying. Like I said, reflect on the similarities to the football sidelines. I’m finished here.

Dead period lifted. Lets hope for some rumors or news today at least.