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I am beginning to strongly support the idea of giving this job to Jase Hurl, if he is committed to retaining the slow-pace of play, defensive identity that we have won with the last 8 years. Reasons: Hurl has obviously been Hodge’s No. 1 assistant the last two seasons and is the most active of the staff during games. He was also the primary recruiter for us on Jason Edwards, and a future Dallas Maverick that he coached at one of his prior coaching stops floater transferred over to another school Hurl was coaching at, which indicates that he can identify and acquire talent. He’s also spent his entire career learning to do more with less at our level of basketball or lower. Like Hodge, Hurl is a former assistant of defensive guru Larry Eustachy, who Ross gives a lot of credit for his superior knowledge of X’s & O’s. Hurl also spent five seasons on the staff at Missouri State, another school that leaned on its defense to be successful. Like Hodge and McCasland, Hurl was a successful junior college head coach for several seasons. And that skill set really transfers to our current NIL and transfer portal situation. Herl was also 1-5 as interim HC at Colorado State, but that was a disaster season for that program where Eustachy was fired for abusing players and the team’s first interim was also removed. I’m not holding that against Hurl, who was also only 30 years old at the time. Overall, this is an opportunity to keep a good thing going with a coach who knows how to win here, understands the challenges of our institution and can recruit. Let’s sign him up and reschedule the faculty appreciation lunch for the next few years.

Do we know which coaches he’s taking with him? I’m assuming Forte and Herl….maybe even Shaw.

I agree with @NorthTexasWeLove. We’ve had a niche and have been successful with it. We won’t be able to go toe to toe with Memphis in recruiting battles, so we need to be creative. I love the defense first mentality…I almost take pride in how we play. GMG!

This is one hire I'm not worried about. Hiring basketball coaches is what Mosely does best.

Most probably feel if the money is right we should try to go. More travel, later start times, possible to lose ESPN exposure (this year has been the most we have been on linear TV in our history), losing eastern exposure which is the most heavily populated area, etc. There are some really good brands in the new PAC, but we gave up 2 years or CUSA revenue, and would have to do that again and pay a hefty exit fee so the money has to be there.