To call this thread nutty is to completely misunderstand the point of it.
Good grief. No one is misunderstanding anything. This is not the Manhattan project. You're not Oppenheimer. People aren't disagreeing with you because your deeply complex proposal was hard for them to comprehend. They're disagreeing with you because your half formed idea was completely lacking in merit. Lest I MISCONSTRUE!!! your important post, let me quote you: "Instead of spending the money on 2 top notch recruiters, would you guys have preferred one and a Dunlap level assistant to balance it out with St. Jean helping and learning."
And the answer is a resounding no, because that's nice personic. You want to bring in an X and O guy to help Saint Jean learn to be an X and O guy so her can help Mullin with Xs and Os. That is dumb on several levels. In the first place, talent wins college BB games, not some dope scribbling on a white board. So two ace recruiters is better than one. In the similar second place, coaching is over rated. Many college BB coaches are complete meatheads and unless you're a class A buffoon like Steve Lavin who doesn't even vaguely understand the sport you don't really need any help. Jim Boeheim and Bob Knight are so dumb they can barely tie their shoes and they're in the hall of fame. In the third place, there's no evidence that Mullin needs help: he's a BB genius who's succeeded at every level of the sport for half a century. And in the fourth place, if he did need help the person to get rid of would be Saint Jean, who's allegedly the X and O guy. Because there's no reason for SJ to be "spending the money" for him to learn on the job.
I think the GA proposal for St. Jean would have made more sense and having a hired Xs and Os guy would have been ideal. Should not pay for STJ to learn but can have him around. Hopefully all works out next year, but if not they need to reconsider and Mullin should hire someone to help this talent go far for our program. This would be different if Mullin came in after several years coaching experience than it is not an issue and can be flexible with assistants. As much as I hate Boeheim to call him a knucklehead is nonsense. Coach K has been a good coach for many years. Jay Wright and Mike Brey have been too. Calipari has gotten alot of talent together but has found ways to get them to play together unlike say someone like the LSU coach who has no idea what the hell he was doing this year. There is more to the game than talent- the talent has to play together and have chemistry.
Mullin could very well use a big time Xs and Os assistant down the line if we do not see progress (hopefully we do). Heck, even someone at Whitesell's level. Several players on the team have told me that he was a decent coach and respected him during his time here and got alot out of his attention to fundamentals and style. Similar to Dunlap. And yes Dunlap has failed as head coach but maybe he is just best suited to be an assistant does not take away that he thrived as assistant.
We all want championship and contention someday yet we criticize for daring to help him along to reach the level of a great coach. Before coaches become great they had help and they learned early on in the process. Just because someone was a great player does not make them a great coach right away. I do think Mullin can become great because the knowledge is there, but lets not be nieve and think he is above having guidance at this early stage to get there.