In Reply to: Brent Brennan had himself a good season posted by TJJ on November 28, 2025 at 22:47:20
During tourist season where I've lived and live now, there were lots of people in there cars looking for places they've never visited before. The result is they are driving not to go someplace to looking for where they can stop and get off the road. You never want to get stuck behind someone who's looking to stop rather than to go.
We previously, before Deshawn, hired a guy with great experience and knowledge but he was looking for a place to stop rather than driven to go.
I like all three at the top of the list and your comment about bringing the energy, wanting to go and get someplace (top of the profession) rather than approaching retirement, is to me a basic requirement in making a good hire.
When Indiana's HC left James Madison, he took iirc it was 13 JMU players with him. They helped him make Indiana a top team in short order. But the current JMU HC stepped into the program Cignetti left behind, still new to division one, missing 13 players Cignatti valued highly. And two years later, Chesney has JMU with only one loss on the season. He's my top hope for the job if we can get him out of the east and southeast.
Lewis of SDSU seems to have done well despite the fact that the Lobos got them in two OTs last night. But Brennan has done a good job also. A part of me cringes at the thought of hiring another former Bruin as that has seemingly been a top priority in the past, obscuring the need to look for actual qualifications for someone who is ready to actually do the job rather than, as they say, winning the press conference. I could give a fig about the press conference. I want us to win at recruiting and win on the field. But as my backup choice if we miss on Chesney especially, Brennan is looking better to me.
What's best to this point is that this time it really does seem that UCLA is actually doing a real, profession job on a search