[GK3]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Lengthy travel to the Southeast is a rather significant negative for the coach and his team.
However, coaching in the ACC remains a great option for coaches with ambition and should be a recruiting positive too.

I just wish this had happened 12 months ago.  Though looking across the USA many quality D1 programs have been able to convince their successful alums to come back to campus no matter what the level of compensation or success at their current program.

While I am thankful Muir finally has realized this needed to happen, that 12-48 month delay should be enough for us to see a similar message about his tenure IMO.

Lots of good names on the lists floating around.  What concerns me is that I don't think we are going to pay anywhere near what top coaches in the ACC make, at least not to start. Plus there is all the negative rumors going around about how hard it is to recruit to Stanford, the NIL and then the portal issues. I am not interested in hiring an up and coming young guy who turns things around and then leaves for the really big dollars elsewhere.
We have lost some good player to the portal, but it is hard to say how many left due to coaching issues and who might have stayed if the programming was winning and going to the dance. Haase has shown you can recruit talent to Stanford, but you need to do something with the talent once you get it. 
The WSU coach is bound to be the target of some bigger programs, plus his body of work as a head coach is limited. I like the guy from Princeton. He wouldn't find Stanford's academic limitations on recruiting all that different, but he would move from the Ivy to the ACC.  If we can't get either Smith or Henderson, I would pick Alford.  I hated the guy when he was at UCLA and think he has a lot of baggage that maybe Stanford doesn't want to deal with, but he has a proven ability to win, plus I think he would like a chance to get back into the big leagues again.
I sincerely hope we don't drag this process out too long until there are no empty chairs.

[GK3]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Lengthy travel to the Southeast is a rather significant negative for the coach and his team.
However, coaching in the ACC remains a great option for coaches with ambition and should be a recruiting positive too.

I just wish this had happened 12 months ago.  Though looking across the USA many quality D1 programs have been able to convince their successful alums to come back to campus no matter what the level of compensation or success at their current program.

While I am thankful Muir finally has realized this needed to happen, that 12-48 month delay should be enough for us to see a similar message about his tenure IMO.

Lots of good names on the lists floating around.  What concerns me is that I don't think we are going to pay anywhere near what top coaches in the ACC make, at least not to start. Plus there is all the negative rumors going around about how hard it is to recruit to Stanford, the NIL and then the portal issues. I am not interested in hiring an up and coming young guy who turns things around and then leaves for the really big dollars elsewhere.
We have lost some good player to the portal, but it is hard to say how many left due to coaching issues and who might have stayed if the programming was winning and going to the dance. Haase has shown you can recruit talent to Stanford, but you need to do something with the talent once you get it. 
The WSU coach is bound to be the target of some bigger programs, plus his body of work as a head coach is limited. I like the guy from Princeton. He wouldn't find Stanford's academic limitations on recruiting all that different, but he would move from the Ivy to the ACC.  If we can't get either Smith or Henderson, I would pick Alford.  I hated the guy when he was at UCLA and think he has a lot of baggage that maybe Stanford doesn't want to deal with, but he has a proven ability to win, plus I think he would like a chance to get back into the big leagues again.
I sincerely hope we don't drag this process out too long until there are no empty chairs.