Bobby Hurley (if we lose Jans)

[Johnson85]

Might be a hard sell to Bobby to leave Tempe AZ, for small town south.

Not that I'm arguing we should hire him but surely at this point his clock is ticking in Arizona and he might want to reset his clock at another school at the same level?

He finished 2nd and T3rd in his 4th and 5th season, and then has gone 9th, 8th, T5th, and T-9th. He's had a losing record 3 of his last 4 years (although he managed to go .500 in conference one of those years with a losing record; not sure if that was a brutal OOC schedule, or maybe somebody came back from injury for conference?).

I know ASU is the little brother in basketball, but surely lots of their fans are tired of him after 9 years with the last four being pretty rough, whether it's smart to be or not?

[Santiago]

Not that I'm arguing we should hire him but surely at this point his clock is ticking in Arizona and he might want to reset his clock at another school at the same level?

He finished 2nd and T3rd in his 4th and 5th season, and then has gone 9th, 8th, T5th, and T-9th. He's had a losing record 3 of his last 4 years (although he managed to go .500 in conference one of those years with a losing record; not sure if that was a brutal OOC schedule, or maybe somebody came back from injury for conference?).

I know ASU is the little brother in basketball, but surely lots of their fans are tired of him after 9 years with the last four being pretty rough, whether it's smart to be or not?

good points. ASU is tougher without tradition compared to AZ.
But you may have inadvertently just gave the reasons why not to hire him ***