Originally Posted by SLUFLYER
JOB was the head coach at Wheeling Jesuit (WVa), and pretty successful. His father-in-law was the late-great Dr. Jack Ramsey. And no, JOB didn't beat X in the MVC with OP's players, considering he preceded OP.
JOB's inability to put it all together at Dayton was extremely unfortunate, setting the program back a solid 5+ years. It's kind of a head scratcher too, since there are many that suggested we got great recruits then and won most of the top local recruiting battles. Not to be lost in all of that timeframe was the drastic landscape change of conference affiliation and re-alignment. Most of the dirty hands on that fell on the athletic administration at the time, not getting on board with or being relatively oblivious to what was happening. That combined with 2 seasons of abysmal on court performances, and we ended up with the "dark ages" of UD hoops.
But, Jim was as first class as they came, but ultimately a hire that didn't work out.
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The whole MCBB landscape has indeed changed a lot since JOB, and do in my heart and mind do not believe the we could ever whiff that badly again. We have too many institutional advantages now. But the reality is, with these young assistants, you never really now how they will be. There is no prefect answer.
