I have to admit that I am totally unimpressed...that being said, as I always do, I will support McCaffery until he is gone. I just hope Hawk fans are realistic. He is taking over a team that failed to achieve last year or in my opinion underachieved. He has one open scholarship, so if you expect major changes next year, you are setting him up for failure before he begins.
Welcome aboard Fran and I look forward to watching your teams play ball.
On another note, do we lose any current players with this hire? What about incoming recruits? Both of these question will be interesting to watch as they are answered...
+1 I am also reserving judgement and am welcoming him to Iowa City. His track record at building programs is very good. More than you can say about Lickliter who inherited what was already built at Butler. He has built programs from ground up not only at Siena, but also at Lehigh and UNC-Greensboro. Granted they are mid-major programs, but in the sense of needing a program builder, it is a good hire. From what I am reading on other boards (from people who have supposedly observed him as a coach, FWIW) the guy was doing a good job at attracting talent out of NYC to a school of 3000 students with little basketball history located in Albany, NY.