Question: What coaching position did the Spurs-Suns rivalry allegedly prevent ''Coach Pop'' from acquiring?

Context articles: Gregg Popovich
T. L. Plain
Dennis Fryzel
Dean Keener
Wayne Lineburg
Angela Lawson
Spurs–Suns rivalry
2010 Sugar Bowl
Weldon Drew
Ronnie Courtney

Gregg Charles Popovich (born January 28, 1949) is an American basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Taking over as coach of the Spurs in 1996, Popovich is the longest tenured active coach in both the NBA and all US major sports leagues.
 He is often referred to as "Coach Pop" or simply "Pop."
Truman Layton "T. L." Plain is an American basketball coach.
 Plain graduated from Western Kentucky State Teachers College in 1950, and received his master's degree from Murray State.
 Plain coached various high school basketball and baseball teams in Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana in the 1950s and 1960s From 1959 to 1963 T.L. Plain was the coach of the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers where he coached the team to two NCAA Division II Tournaments.
 After two years of assistant coaching at University of Louisville Plain became an assistant coach for the University of Kentucky under coach Adolph Rupp.
 While at Kentucky, he was a part of the 1970 NCAA Runner up team.
 When Rupp was forced to retire by state law, the choice was down to Joe B. Hall and Plain for the head coaching position.
 T. L. Plain get the chance at a Division I school with Utah State University.
 His post coaching career included coordinator of convention sales at the Executive Inn in Evansville, Indiana.
 Since 2005 he has resided in Owensboro, Kentucky
Dennis Fryzel (February 21, 1942 – July 6, 2009) was the last head football coach at the University of Tampa.
 He was the captain of the football team at Garfield Heights High School, where he lost his teeth to on-the-field injuries.
 He attended Denison University, where he played football and ran track.
 Although offered a tryout by the Boston Patriots, he was unable to bulk up enough to accept.
 He entered the coaching ranks with jobs at his former high school, Columbia University, and Williams College, before being offered the defensive coordinator position by Tampa head coach Earle Bruce.
 Fryzel took over the head coaching position when Bruce was offered a job at Iowa State University the next year.
 Fryzel coached for two years at the University of Tampa, before the program was disbanded.
 Ironically, Fryzel, who had become the fourth UT head coach in as many years, had given assurances on his hiring that he intended to serve out his three-year contract, and not use it to serve as a springboard to a higher-profile job.
 Fryzel then took the position of special teams coordinator with the expansion NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
 After one year, he returned to the college ranks and served as defensive coordinator at Syracuse University and Air Force, before rejoining Bruce at Ohio State University.
 After being fired (along with Nick Saban and Steve Szabo) following the 1981 Liberty Bowl, Fryzel retired from coaching.
 Saban, who calls Fryzel a "great mentor" and included him on the sideline at Alabama games, credits him with helping him to make up his mind to leave the Miami Dolphins and take the University of Alabama coaching job.
 He died in July 2009 of renal cancer.
Dean Keener (born September 18, 1965) is the former head coach for the men's basketball team at James Madison University.
 He is a 1988 graduate of Davidson College where he served as a team captain and played on Davidson's 1986 NCAA Tournament team.
 Keener was hired on April 1, 2004.
 Keener previously held coaching positions at Drake University, Southern California, Virginia Tech, SMU, and Georgia Tech.
 Keener played an instrumental role in recruiting and developing many of the players on the 2004 national runner-up Georgia Tech squad.
 Keener resigned from his coaching position at JMU on February 22, 2008.
 After his resignation, he continued to coach for the remainder of the 2008 season.
 During his 20-year coaching career, he coached and/or recruited 12 players that played in the NBA, including Chris Bosh, Jarrett Jack, Anthony Morrow and Will Bynum.
 He is currently a color analyst for ESPN3.
Wayne Lineburg (born January 12, 1974) was the interim head coach of the Richmond Spiders college football team, representing the University of Richmond, for the 2011 season.
 He was named to the position on August 23, 2011 following the resignation of Latrell Scott.
 Before taking the head coaching position at Richmond, Lineburg served as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach for one season at Richmond under Scott.
 He had also previously served as the offensive coordinator and running backs coach at Richmond under Dave Clawson from 2004 through 2006.
 Lineburg has also held coaching positions at the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary.
Angela Lawson (born January 19, 1966) is the head women's basketball coach at the University of the Incarnate Word.
 She played college basketball at Louisiana Tech University where she was a three-year starter for Leon Barmore and the Lady Techsters and won the 1988 NCAA Division I National Championship in her senior season.
 Lawson went to the University of Tennessee to earn a master's degree and serve as a graduate assistant for Pat Summitt and the Lady Vols.
 In her second season as GA, Tennessee won the 1991 NCAA Division I National Championship.
 Lawson then took an assistant coaching position at Texas State, which she served for 3 seasons.
 Then she took an assistant coaching position at Baylor with former Louisiana Tech coach Sonja Hogg.
 After serving 6 years at Baylor, Lawson took the head coaching position which she currently holds at the University of the Incarnate Word.
The Spurs–Suns rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the San Antonio Spurs and Phoenix Suns.
 It began in the 1990s, when the Spurs were led by "The Admiral", David Robinson, and the Phoenix Suns were propelled by a number of players, including Dan Majerle, Kevin Johnson, and Tom Chambers.
 The rivalry continued into the next decade with Tim Duncan leading the Spurs, and with Steve Nash leading the Suns.
 The rivalry has also allegedly prevented Spurs coach Gregg Popovich from coaching the USA Basketball team in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was part of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) for the 2009 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was the 76th Sugar Bowl.
 The contest was played on Friday, January 1, 2010, in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the Florida Gators, who lost the 2009 SEC Championship Game and the Cincinnati Bearcats, winners of the Big East Conference.
 The Bearcats were coached by Offensive Coordinator Jeff Quinn on an interim basis after Head Coach Brian Kelly left Cincinnati to take the head coaching position at Notre Dame on December 10, 2009.
 This would be Quinn's only game as head coach for Cincinnati, as he had already accepted the head coaching position of the University of Buffalo's football team effective after the Sugar Bowl.
Weldon Drew (born April 22, 1935) was the head men's basketball coach at New Mexico State University from 1979 to 1985.
 He was named to the position in 1979 as the successor to Ken Hayes who left to become head coach at Oral Roberts University.
 Drew was previously an assistant coach for New Mexico State University from 1975 to 1979.
 Drew came to NMSU after coaching high school basketball for Houston's Kashmere High School (485-135 record in 18 seasons), where he left with a 78-game winning streak after winning two consecutive Texas 4A state championships and the high school national championship.
 Drew also won national coach of the year in 1975.
 The NMSU job was Drew's first head coaching position at the college level.
 Drew was the 20th person to hold the head coaching position in the Aggie basketball history.
 After a dismal 1984-85 season, Drew was fired.
 He then went to be an assistant coach at Oklahoma State for two seasons.
 In 1987 Drew became the head coach at traditionally-black Langston University in Oklahoma.
 Drew graduated from Fisk University in 1957 after a standout career playing basketball.
 Drew graduated high school and played basketball at Wheatley High School in Houston.
Ronnie Courtney (born October 6, 1957) began his coaching career at Furr High School as an assistant football, basketball, and track coach.
 After eight years, he moved to Jefferson Davis High School as the head basketball coach, assistant football coach, and assistant track coach.
 While at Jeff Davis, his basketball team made the play-offs five of the eight years and Coach Courtney was named Greater Houston Coach of the Year and District Coach of the Year twice, compiling a record of 137-76.
 He then moved to Willowridge High School for four years where, as head basketball coach, he led his teams to back-to-back State titles in 2000 and 2001.
 Coach Courtney was named State Coach of the Year both years.
 In 2001, he was named National High School Coach of the Year.
 His record at Willowridge High School was 100-44.
 In 2001, Coach Courtney accepted the head basketball coaching position at Texas Southern University.
 In 2001, he was named Insider.com College Coach of the Year.
 In 2003, he led Texas Southern University to the NCAA tournament and was named Southwestern Athletic Conference Coach of the Year.
 He compiled a record of 77-98 while at Texas Southern.
 Courtney was fired from Texas Southern University on July 19, 2007.