How big a factor do people (especially people who actually care about the basketball program) think the Harbro-in-law thing is?
I honestly think that for the people making the decision, it has to be a real concern, if not an outright dealbreaker. Jim H. is not just anybody. He is the biggest attention seeker and needler in college football. He has gone out of his way to make a big deal about making recruiting inroads in Georgia. He has, IIRC, taken a coupe of social media pokes at Kirby.
Don't you think he will try hard, and probably succeed, to find ways to make this a thing in the ESPN/Finebaum/social media echo chamber? And if I am the AD at a football school, do I want that? And if we do go in that direction, couldn't it be a distraction for Crean, something of a prickly personality himself, if he is routinely asked about it and football-first fans take shots at him over it?
I think he would win a lot of games here, so it's not a dealbreaker for me, but interested what others think.
I honestly think that for the people making the decision, it has to be a real concern, if not an outright dealbreaker. Jim H. is not just anybody. He is the biggest attention seeker and needler in college football. He has gone out of his way to make a big deal about making recruiting inroads in Georgia. He has, IIRC, taken a coupe of social media pokes at Kirby.
Don't you think he will try hard, and probably succeed, to find ways to make this a thing in the ESPN/Finebaum/social media echo chamber? And if I am the AD at a football school, do I want that? And if we do go in that direction, couldn't it be a distraction for Crean, something of a prickly personality himself, if he is routinely asked about it and football-first fans take shots at him over it?
I think he would win a lot of games here, so it's not a dealbreaker for me, but interested what others think.
