Turner was born and raised in VA. ACC country. DeCuire is from Seattle and played at Montana.
Turner has been an assistant in the ACC and Pac 10. DeCuire the Pac-10 and Colonial conference.
Turner was an NBA assistant (for the Warriors) and has coached hoop in Turkey, Lithuania and China (international recruiting) as part of the NBA's outreach program. DeCuire has never affiliated with an NBA team or coached abroad.
Montana made the NCAA tournament ten times before DeCuire took the job there (his alma mater).
UC-Irvine had no basketball success before Turner took the job. He is the only coach to take UCI to the NCAAs (and he has won a game in the tournament).
Turner would not be my first choice, but the guy has coached at all of the key levels of basketball, and took over a program with a total of 3 NIT bids in its basketball history (no NCAA bids) and has built the best program in the Big West Conference (they will again win the Big West regular season, and be the #1 seed in the conference tourney - so, he is taking UCI to the NCAAs or NIT again). Turner has a solid resume, and connections at all levels of basketball. The fact that he has a WF connection is nice, but at best, a minor factor why he is a candidate.
Raised in Roanoke. IIRC, he played HS ball with George Lynch of UNC. I thought Turner was a leading candidate for VT before Buzz fell into the Hokies' lap.