Understand.
I won't judge him until I see him and the team in action. Maybe others wanted more of a "name" coach, fired from a bigger program? We had a rebound HC in football, Bob Tyler from Miss St, that was a huge failure.
I wasn't familiar with Cleveland State, so the context of taking a coach from that far north without any Texas connection seemed like a reach to me. But, as others said, basketball recruiting is basically National now.
He checked a lot of boxes we were looking for...a DI coach with three straight 20+ win seasons, and likes a similar defensive style to what we have played...but now all those players are gone anyway so who cares?
And Matt Simon was coach then...1994-97.
I see Matt Simon (now 71), as of last year, is the OC/QB coach now at Ohio Northern.
I didn't know there was an Ohio Northern, lol. Enrollment is about 3000; the Polar Bears are DIII.
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