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I believe Dawkins has defeated more Top-20 teams in the past week than Haase has defeated in the past three years...

I know that after a terrible loss is a bad time for this conversation, but perhaps to plant a seed for later … 

As far as I know Dawkins was generally liked at Stanford and did fine with all the off-the-court issues that are very important at Stanford. He was fired for simply not winning enough. He then goes to a program that has no great history of winning at basketball, had been a frequent occupant of the cellar regions of a good but not power-5 basketball conference, and now we are talking about how well he is doing there. 

So, why exactly has Dawkins succeeded at UCF when he could not at Stanford? 

Is Dawkins really simply a poor basketball coach but that doesn't matter at UCF? 
Did he not "get" Stanford, but is better suited to the environment at UCF? 
Is the environment so different from early 2000s that Stanford can no longer do well in mens basketball? 
Is the environment so different from football that Stanford cannot succeed at the same level in basketball? 
Are our expectations just mixed up? 

Or, is it all mostly random, and Dawkins has rolled the dice better at UCF than Stanford? 
Or, similarly, it is all mostly random and this season at UCF is just his 2014 season at Stanford (Sweet Sixteen)?

[CTcard]

I believe Dawkins has defeated more Top-20 teams in the past week than Haase has defeated in the past three years...

I know that after a terrible loss is a bad time for this conversation, but perhaps to plant a seed for later … 

As far as I know Dawkins was generally liked at Stanford and did fine with all the off-the-court issues that are very important at Stanford. He was fired for simply not winning enough. He then goes to a program that has no great history of winning at basketball, had been a frequent occupant of the cellar regions of a good but not power-5 basketball conference, and now we are talking about how well he is doing there. 

So, why exactly has Dawkins succeeded at UCF when he could not at Stanford? 

Is Dawkins really simply a poor basketball coach but that doesn't matter at UCF? 
Did he not "get" Stanford, but is better suited to the environment at UCF? 
Is the environment so different from early 2000s that Stanford can no longer do well in mens basketball? 
Is the environment so different from football that Stanford cannot succeed at the same level in basketball? 
Are our expectations just mixed up? 

Or, is it all mostly random, and Dawkins has rolled the dice better at UCF than Stanford? 
Or, similarly, it is all mostly random and this season at UCF is just his 2014 season at Stanford (Sweet Sixteen)?