St. John's hoping Ga. Tech coach Paul Hewitt accepts their offer [NY Post]

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St. John's, hoping to make an announcement as soon as tomorrow that it has found its next coach, is anxiously awaiting word from Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt.

The former Long Island resident has spent the last 48 hours conferring with his wife and three daughters as he decides whether to leave their comfortable life in Atlanta to return to the Big Apple.

"It will be done Friday," said a source in New York who knows Hewitt. "He just needs to get his wife completely on board."

These are the difficult scenarios that confront college coaches. Notre Dame's new football coach Brian Kelly moved to South Bend without his family so his children wouldn't be uprooted in the middle of the school year.

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When you're a kid from New York and you do it in New York, that lasts forever!

I would like to think that he is taking these couple of days ironing out details with GT and getting his family on board.  You guys in New York should plan a welcoming greeting for him...