re: The search must begin with BILLY DONOVAN

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Hannagriff is speculating that Nunez WILL call Donovan. To pick his brain re: suggestions for a replacement.

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Seriously, why would you not? Assuming you are willing to pay big money (not necessarily a safe assumption with the dildos running show at LSU) why would you not at least try to talk to someone who could change the landscape of your program and college basketball for several years. Here's the list of current NCAA/NBA coaches with 4 Final Four appearances and 2 national championships on their resume:

Coach K
Roy Williams
Billy Donovan

That's it!

LSU has some big selling points as a program.

1. Member of the most lucrative college conf. in America and one Donovan is very familiar with.

2. Facilities that are very much on par with his last college job and money to upgrade if necessary

3. A fairly rich talent pool with no in state competition. shite, Baton Rouge alone produces some great players. Donovan was part of a Final Four that featured an LSU team whose starting line up consisted COMPLETELY of Louisiana players, 80% of them being from the BR area. Hell, even blue bloods like Duke, UNC, UK, Indiana, would have a very hard time making the Final Four with just local kids.

4. Familiarity with a member of the athletic dept. (Nunez)

The timing may never be better to at least take a shot! The worst he could say is no. Then Alleva could just hire whatever mediocre bum he has his sights on. But damn man, give it a shot! You're never going to get to bang Margot Robbie if don't at least fricking try