FreddyBrown
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You're right about Capel and Belein having reached only the Elite Eight. I stand corrected. Belein has one NCAA trip and one win at Michigan in three years. He had five wins in his five years at WVa. Amaker had to deal with the Ed Martin sanctions at Michigan, but I'm not arguing he was successful there. However, the point stands that no one has been successful there since Fisher left.
I don't know how you can begin to evaluate whether Dawkins will ultimately succeed after just two years as a head coach, but the early signs aren't bad: He won 20 games in his first yer and has a recruiting class ranked in the top 10 nationally this year. I'd say the early signs are pretty good for him.
I'd be interested in hearing how you define success. If it means having taken teams to multiple Final Fours and/or Sweet Sixteens, or probably even with overall winning records in the NCAA tournament, the number of currently active "successful" head coaches would be small. The number of those who would conceivably be available to Iowa would be much smaller.
More importantly, I'm still waiting to hear anyone articulate the logic behind the idea that the next Duke assistant's prospects for success are affected, positively or negatively, by any of those who've gone before him.
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