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hurley is screwed and so is ASU in the short term

At this point his own arrogance and lack of coaching ability has backed his "career" into a serious dead end.

Had he left after the 2023 season he could have used the excuse of "lack of institutional investment" as the reason and other schools would have gladly bought that, hired him to a long term deal with a raise, and he'd be their problem now. By staying and absolutely imploding the past two seasons, he can no longer use that excuse as it comes off as disingenuous. No program with all of the things he wants would hire him. Any program who would be willing to hire him won't have those things, and thus him complaining about them will be a turn off to them as well. Coming back for a third straight disasterous season will do further damage to himself.

bob at best is going to need to do a major rehabilitation to his value if he wants to continue to making college coaching a career. At worst, he's basically done in the profession. At this point he'll need to go back to a low mid-major, if one would have him, and try to win enough to one day get a shot at a high mid-major or better. The issue is that people will always look at how badly things went when he was coaching at this level and that will always be a knock against him. For me his best chance at redemption would be to swallow his ego, work out a severance package with ASU that GR can live with, appeal to Rick Pitino to work under him and rebuild his reputation with the possibility of taking over St. John's in 5+ seasons.

"IF" this is hurley's final season....who would you want to see as our next coach?

We don't know what will happen as there are lots of games left to be played. We do know that he only has one year left on his contract, which means that Rossini will have to make a decision by March. So this isn't to argue whether he will be retained or not, or whether he should be or not. This is us assuming a change will be made and to look at possible candidates.

I would love Will Wade, but I don't think ASU has a realistic shot even if Rossini and Crow were on board with him given that he is a Clemson grad and has always coached in the southeast. Clemson's coach has been there 14 seasons and he just took them to an Elite-8 last year, so he's not going anywhere. I do think there will be a lot of programs coming after Wade starting in April as his show-cause expires. I would think that Miami would be a great fit for him.

Chris Mack is very intriguing to me. Born in Ohio, played at Xavier. Killed it at Xavier when he took over, after being Miller's assistant, when Miller left for u4. He actually did better at Xavier than Miller had. He took over Louisville 2 season after Pitino departed. Struggled there somewhat (Covid being part of his tenure there) and then was dismissed for something to do with an assistant trying to blackmail him and him recording the conversation. Weird for sure. Now at the College of Charleston after their former coach left for Louisville. He's currently at 15-4 and doing well.

Who do you all like?

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