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Originally Posted by shocka43 Bruh... Kevin Kuwik...assistant Davidson....20 years NCAA experience...HS offer at Wayne prior to Davidson Allen Griffin...assistant Syracuse...15 years NCAA experience Tom Ostrom...Associate HC Indiana...18 years NCAA experience (passed up for NKU job...shady AF and was prior to UD in the AAU circles) If they were that desirable, they would have been selected. They also would have most likely taken a HC job somewhere in the US if they were offered. There is a hell of a lot more to leading a D1 program than being a role player on a coaching staff. I agree that continuity would be nice and it has proven to work at other schools, like XU. If there were a capable coach on Miller's staff, UD would have promoted him. They didn't. They didn't for a reason. As I mentioned, just because a guy holds a clipboard and does position work in practice, doesn't make them a head coach.

We will just have to agree to disagree...there are plenty of head coaches at both UD and other schools that were promoted from being an assistant that, as far as I am aware, were never offered a head coaching job elsewhere. I do not consider never having been offered a head coaching job elsewhere to be a disqualifier. To a degree, it is all a crapshoot, heck, Steele at Xavier got passed over for the Wright State job, does that mean that Xavier made a bad hire?

And what about 4 out of the last 6 UD hires? Donoher, JOB, BG, and AM had never been offered a d1 hc job anywhere prior to being hired here as far as I am aware. But now all of a sudden that we hired Grant, who had prior hc experience, he is the ideal candidate?

And don't tell me that you had to have p5/BE assistant experience either, Ostrom and Griffin had such experience.

The examples are too numerous to list: Stevens, Lickliter, and Miller at Butler, Capel, Smart, Rhoades, and Grant at VCU, Gillen, Mack, Miller, and Steele at Xavier, Skinner and Cox at RI , Aaron McKie at Temple, Mark Few at Gonzaga, Izzo at MSU, Pitino at Minnesota, Wojo at Marquette, Dutcher at SDSU, Craig Neal at NM, and on and on and on.

	Xavier XAVIER MUSKETEERS Dayton's biggest rival dating back to the early 1900s. Founded in 1831, Xavier University is a Jesuit, Catholic university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its three colleges offer 78 undergraduate majors, 43 minors and 11 graduate programs to 6,646 total students, including 3,961 undergraduates. The University is the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation and one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities nationwide. Xavier's nickname is the Musketeers and are fellow A10 Conference members.

	Temple TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple College became Temple University in 1907. Located in Philadelphia, Temple is a comprehensive public research university with 34,000 students, 8 campuses, and 300 academic degree programs. Notable alumni include Bill Cosby and Daryl Hall. Temple's nickname is the Owls and are fellow A10 Conference members.

	Don Donoher DON DONOHER Legendary Flyer men's basketball coach who guided Dayton to 435 victories in 25 seasons (1964-1989) including the 1967 NCAA Runner-Up. Took over the program after the passing of Tom Blackburn and earned many NCAA and NIT bids over his career, including five Sweet-16s, one Elite Eight appearance, and the 1968 NIT Championship. Groomed All-Americans Don May and Jim Paxson, along with all-time leading scorer Roosevelt Chapman. Coached UD as they joined conference affiliation for the first time (Midwest Collegiate). A graduate of UD, Donoher played for Blackburn and credits much of his coaching success to his mentor's teachings: defense, ball protection, patience, and unselfishness.