notimpressed wrote:
The Cal Poly AD flew to Eugene to meet with Texas' Pete Watson the week of NCAA's, but talks fizzled when Cal Poly wanted to keep their program well rounded on one of the worst budgets in the Big West. All of the top Cal Poly prospects came from P5 schools. The entire athletic department is faltering, so the AD was only going to hire someone from a big school to save his own job. It's comical to think he did not have any concept of the kind of impact Brosnan would have made. Vanhoy is a fine coach, but it takes a gritty--build it from the ground up--kind of coach with a solid foundation of CA HS running to get a program like Cal Poly to a new level. Brosnan would have been a logical fit, but Cal Poly shot too 'high' and now whichever program is smart enough to hire Sean will reap the benefits.
John Capriotti and Steve Miller orchestrated the Van Hoy hire and bankrolled it. They made it worthwhile for VH to get out of the swamp hell of Mississippi to a temperate climate, unsaddled by a department that lives and dies on P5 media deals and the prospects of paying revenue share to football and basketball players under the employment and antitrust lawsuits. Cal Poly is a great training environment for distance and they have the patronage. And from every source VH has a much lower AHole quotient than Brosnan. Cal Poly is in a good place. Brosnan has been fired after one year. facts.