Saturday's hire-a-coach post

First question to the candidates pursuing the San Jose State University job should be:

"How and why will you succeed when nobody in decades at San Jose has?"

Hopefully, the individuals won't pull punches and a portion of the response will be about the previous lack of internal support for the basketball program that has hindered success. Not making excuses because there are Mike Whites turning matters around quickly but SJSU is headed to the major leagues and a much more and serious institutional commitment must be put into place.

The second question should be: how and why are you going to best Steve Alford, Dave Rice, Steve Fisher and Larry Eustachy both on the court and in recruiting?

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Scott Wolf lists former New Mexico State coach Reggie Theus as one of the five final candidates for the opening at Cal State Northridge.