BabyDeac75
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Unless if I am remembering incorrectly, everything that I heard is that Coach Battle was approached with the head coaching job and he turned it down before it went to Coach Gaudio.
Your basic recollection is correct. However, in the interest of total accuracy, Coach B removed himself from consideration prior to any offer being made due to his wife's illness. While he was never actually offered the job, it is widely believed that he would have been the first choice and Dino would have remained his Assistant Head Coach ... positions they were both much better suited for than the reverse. While Coach B absolutely made the right decision, the program would have been so much better off then and now if he had been available for the HC position.