They looked for rationale in some of McGee s travels. His presence at the NCAA Tournament s early-round games in Greensboro set tongues wagging. Imaginations ran wild with figures on supposed offers escalating off the scale. Afterward, McGee would label those reports irresponsible. Throughout the process, he pondered the next move while waiting for the last one to play out, and that is the way to go.
Patience pays off.
Reflect on McGee s head-coaching hires at Carolina. His highest profile failure, Brad Scott, came from a successful program but with no head coaching experience. Given the success of Lou Holtz, Ray Tanner and others, hiring a basketball coach without experience and success at a high level would not happen. All the chatter about getting permission and all the denials of contact are usually worthless. Most of the time, the one conducting the search will work through intermediaries with perhaps some hypothetical questions stirred into the recipe.