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1. I was at this place on Miller last year. We have started to recruit better motors excepting one this year. 1 fixes 3.

2. He isn't going anywhere. But if he chose to then we could pay and make a good decision.

3. We need to better focus our recruiting eye to current skill over athletic upside.

I think a person has to be really careful of what you ask for. Drew has this thing going pretty well and I think its only gonna get better. I don't think he's the best coach in the nation but he's also a long way from the worse. I would have to be really drunk to ask for this

Great discussion.

I will add this question, if Drew is such a great coach and someone that we could never replace, then why has no other school come after Drew after either of his elite 8 runs?

Other schools have come after all of our other successful program's coaches.

And don't give me the Memphis example. Those who know what happened their know it was not a mutual interest.

I am shocked that people who post under assumed ID's on the internet have no influence, just blows my whole world. Actually my world is pretty screwed or I wouldn't even respond to this

The Drew haters here were the target of that and clearly jp1214 lacks insight on the ad naseum rantings here.

Drew has a great staff. Drew himself runs a loose ship and wants his players to have fun. Compared to other programs, there is a lot more freedom and lack of discipline. That is Drew's style. It is one of thing that players like about him.

I'd first like to state that even discussing firing Scott Drew at this point in time is beyond ridiculous, but since the discussion is being had...

I agree with those of y'all saying that we have the ability to make a good a hire...partly because of our recently found commitment to athletics and partly because Scott Drew has made Baylor basketball a more attractive job. That being said, just because we have the ability to make a good or even great hire, doesn't guarantee that we will. How many coaches have seemed like homerun hires at the time but they just didn't work out for whatever reason?

I understand sometimes you have to take risks in order to get a program reach it's potential, but here is the problem: We are one bad hire away from starting from scratch. If we fired Scott Drew and the next hire drove the program into the ground, the coach after that would not get to build off of what Scott Drew had established...he would be starting over. I'm stating the obvious here, but It is a lot easier for Carolina and Kentucky to pull the trigger on firing a coach that is not meeting expectations. A bad coaching hire can only do so much damage to a blueblood program. North Carolina made a bad hire with Matt Doeherty and two years after firing him they are cutting down the nets. Kentucky makes a bad hire with Billy Clyde and they go 35-3 the year after they fire him. At the end of the day, Carolina is still Carolina and Kentucky is still Kentucky. Bad coaching hires can't drive bluebloods to the depths of basketball hell. It would only take one bad hire for a program of Baylor's stature to destroy any and all momentum we've created over the last several years. Art Briles didn't get the luxury of building off of what Grant Teaff did, he had to build his own program. By the time Briles got to Baylor, everything Teaff did for the program had been burned to the ground.

Another thing to consider is that even if we were to make a good/great coaching hire, how many up and coming coaches do you think are out there that are really going to view Baylor as a destination job? I don't know if Scott views Baylor as a destination job, but I get the impression he does. It may just be my perception, but I feel like after a couple coaches bolt from your school, other coaches start thinking of your school as a stepping stone job. Over a 7 year period, Tulsa had 4 coaches (Tubby Smith, Steve Robinson, Bill Self, and Buzz Peterson) that left for greener pastures. Yes, I know it is Tulsa, but Mark Few has stuck it out at Gonzaga when most people thought he would be gone years ago. There is something to be said for having a great coach that isn't looking to get out of town the first chance he gets. It is hard to establish a program when you're head coaching position is a revolving door.