+1HopFan16 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:40 amIs coronavirus giving everyone brainworms? What's going on?Hail to the Victors wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:21 am Give his history, I would guess that he does not. And he would almost certainly prefer that the next HC be someone with zero prior affiliation with the program, i.e. someone completely beholden to RD.
If RD doesn't care one way or the other about the lacrosse program, it does not follow that he'd suddenly enforce these very strict rules about whom they can and cannot hire. He very likely doesn't care and would leave the decision to the AD, who may be new to the role but very much DOES care. With the help of a very active committee of alumni/advisors, she'd hire someone worthy of the job. If you think that if they wanted someone like Nadelen or Marr (or Chemotti or Wray or any one of a number of promising youngish D1 head coaches) RD would step in to say "NO you can't hire them you have to hire Joe Schmo from Algonquin College," you are completely delusional.
I think it may be fair to ask about Daniels' priorities and that of the Admin in general, but I agree that IF he's basically uninterested in prioritizing success in lax, that would most likely lead to un-involvement rather than hands-on. And the AD undoubtedly cares...she knows her constituency.
IMO, the risk of pressure to go DIII across the board would not likely come from Mike Bloomberg, unless someone is personally in the know that he was treated badly by some lax jocks back in the day and has been harboring a grudge all these years??? Not likely; more likely he was one of the many Hop students cheering "we want more..."
It could come from faculty.