Originally Posted by ud2
The dynamics of college basketball hiring are interesting.
Xavier's Travis Steele interviewed for the Wright State job, but he got passed over, losing out to Scott Nagy, who has worked out very well for WSU, but yet then a year later Steele lands the Xavier job, which is clearly a much bigger, higher prestige job than the WSU job. Being an in-house candidate definitely seems to have helped Steele.
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Meh. Ignoring my UD bias, I'd have chosen Nagy over Steele if I was WSU's AD. A coach who's been around for a long time, helped his team transition to Div 1 (pretty sure) and then succeed in this division, versus a coach who hasn't had a head-coaching job yet. As well, Steele getting the X gig, follows the bloodline method that X has proven is successful for them going back about 5 coaches.