IAppreciateIt
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I don't get the Turner bashing. Yes, he is a mid major choice if you can't get a current power 5 level coach, but he checks alot of boxes.
1. P5 assistant including at Wake.
2. NBA assistant.
3. Took over a weak program in a conference and has turned it into the top dog. The last 7 years the worst UC Irvine has finished is 2nd.
He is universally considered one of the top mid-major coaches in the country.
The major concern is the transition from WC to EC recruiting.
Turner doesn't seem like a bad coach, but I think the box checking can be misleading. There are tons of people who meet the first two boxes who are truly bad coaches. And there are infinite number of boxes -- I think one of the articles that was linked above had "ACC ties" "Wake ties" and "local ties" as three separate boxes, but I would argue they are all meaningless.