Yep.
DeCourcy believes MU got a better hire than OSU (Ford), Stanford (Dawkins) and, at least for now, Providence (Davis).
Of course, those claiming that DeCourcy's "mere" B grade for Marquette is bad publicity fail to mention that ... perhaps because they were here in recent weeks talking about how great Providence, Stanford and OSU did with their hires.
Nope. In fact, I spoke to Mike yesterday and that's not what he said. He said for the money OSU had, he thought it was underwhelming and thus the grade. I asked him if MU had hired Ford would the grade have changed and he said yes. He would have given MU a B+. So your interpretation is incorrect. It's all about expectations. After firing a coach with a winning record at OSU and having T. Boone Pickens bankroll the search, he thought that money would lead to someone higher then Ford and that's why he graded accordingly. That same hire at a different school gets a different grade. It's just like drafting a 3rd rounder in the 1st round, same concept.
Keno he left incomplete but he could end up to be a home run hire or a bomb, he wants to see who he hires as assistant coaches.
He was grading each school on that hire, not saying one school got a better hire then the other. His evaluation was based on what that school did with that school's resources, etc, it was not a comparison of one school to the next, as clearly made when pushed if a different school on the same list had hired one of the same coaches, would the grade change...and the answer was YES.
