knapplc
Active member
It's the latter.
Schools are large businesses, and they're making multi-million dollar investments in these coaches. The people who make these decisions are entrusted to responsibly take care of that money. If they were to be so loose-lipped that the average Joe on the Street can know the inner workings of the hiring process, they would be fired. That goes for anyone on their staff entrusted with actual knowledge of the situation.
No guy on a message board, no journalist - and ESPECIALLY no journalist who isn't a local beat writer (like Dan Wolken, Andy Staples, Brett McMurphy, etc) - knows which coaches have been approached, what the negotiations are like, who is being added to or crossed off a list.
All of that is fantasy. It's speculation intended to entertain. People on message boards claim to be "insiders" because they get off on pretending to be important. Journalists create candidate lists out of what they think the fans want to see or purely out of their own imagination because their job is to get you to read their article. They don't know anything.
The next time you hear someone prattling on about having inside information, remember the days between when Bo was fired and Riley was hired. Remember all the lists, all the speculation, all the insiders telling us who was on Eichorst's list, who was being talked to, bap bap bap.
And then remember that not one insider so much as mentioned Mike Riley's name.
