I'm sorry, but you have to win LESS games at RU to get to the eventual dance. You have to win significantly more games at a mid-major and schedule extremely well AND hope you don't get hosed like teams do every year if you have an off-game in your conference tournament (ie Monmouth, St. Bonaventure etc.)....URI did OK this year, but frankly they played horrific offense for long stretches and the injury argument only goes so far......I'm only VERY interested in Hurley, because he'll enforce that we play defense and guard people, which is the fastest way to rebuild and by default he should land 2 kids a year that can help RU. There is no easier job than RU's, the excuses and hurdles are so overblown, it's not even funny.
We went from 650K with Mike Rice to 1.2M with Eddie and we cashed him out with 2 full years to go (something unheard of in RU's past history) to almost $2M in less than 5-6 years time on coaching salary and compensation and the last "excuse" was, RU doesn't have the money to support hiring a quality coach....$2M a year is significant money in any conference, facilities or no facilities. I know there is significant interest in this job, despite the appearance that there is this "no one will come here BS", that the media spins to try and leverage RU or make RU look bad.
If you said you had to deal with no facilities and Barchi and 700K as your salary, fine, your argument holds water......but 1.5M to 2M is not chump change.....Anyone still saying same ol' RU just is bitter or not willing to accept the changes here.
And because Eddie Jordan couldn't coach, doesn't mean we don't have decent talent.....Sanders, Johnson and Williams for the next year or two, is an undersized backcourt, but is not god-awful.....its not like we have no pieces to work with and you can still get hired and add a piece or two quickly. Whomever takes this job has a better roster than Rice and Eddie started with in Year One.......