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Longtime, Lifelong and Steve:
Thanks for your responses and perspective - always helps when speculating.
Yes, I think he would have left for tOSU job if the IU job had not opened last year and tOSU job opened under the same timing and circumstances. I think our board would have been very critical of such a departure, probably 100 times worse than the few here who prefer to attack his character and promise re: staying here "forever".
Yes, I think he would have left after the junior year of Scooch, KP, KD and CC if the same job(s) had opened - ie tOSU or IU.
Look, there's a reason that he had a few schools/jobs in his contract that he could leave for w/out a buyout. That's a statement that says 'Hey, I'm committed to you guys. IF one of these jobs opens up and IF they're interested in me, then all bets are off." As the athletic director at the University of Dayton, I suspect I would be obliged by those terms. If IU and/or tOSU or whoever else he had on his protected list were coveting our coach, then we're doing something right and most likely winning.....a lot.
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