Examining the numbers behind Tony Bennett's rise to Virginia

The University of Virginia hired Tony Bennett as its basketball coach Monday but will not introduce him publicly until today.

[STLFRKN]

Blah, Blah, Blah...Tony the Traitor lived by Daddy Dick's recruits. Before his first season with his own recruits (next season), he bailed WSU. Do you really think he will be able to recruit in an area because he gets a kid from Charlotte to decommint from WSU and commit to Virginia? Coach of the year in 07' was lagging on Daddy's coattails, and when he faced the 'tough' travel from Pullman, the winters, etc., he bailed to a school willing to pay huge $$ for an unproven coach! HA! Guess he will be the savior to UVA...the type of savior he promised at WSU until he realized he couldn't pull it off on his own without Daddy there to pull it together for him.

[Jim]

Now UVA must realistically match their resources and attractiveness to their aspirations. The talk about Tubby Smith, Jeff Capel, even Anthony Grant -- no chance. They believe, and they just may be right, that they have hired a young Coach K. If that is true, and that is the best possible case, they will need to give him the 5 years or so that Duke gave Coach K and that Memphis gave John Calipari to build a program through a number of early noncompetitive seasons. Can they do that? Doubt it. Will Littlepage be around long enough to provide that stability? Doubt that even more.