I realize how disappointed you are with Tony Bennett accepting the head coaching position at the University of Virginia. I understand your feelings and share in them. Tony is a great coach and an even better person. ... I will look back at the Bennett years with great fondness, but it is time to look forward, and I want to reassure you that the state of Cougar basketball is in great shape, now and in the future.
— So begins Jim Sterk's
manifesto on the state of the coaching search. There's nothing really groundbreaking in there, although it seems the search may not move as fast as we all thought. He only commits to not wanting it to take more than two weeks.
