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Add Tubby Smith's Name to the Ever Growing List of Possible Coaches at Arizona

12/29/2008 11:52 PM ET By Chas Rich

    • Chas Rich
    • Chas Rich is a College Sports Blogger for FanHouse
Sure. Why not. There's plenty of room with Mark Few, Jamie Dixon, John Calipari, Lon Kruger, Sean Miller, Dave Rose, Tony Bennett, Kevin Stallings, Mark Fox, Reggie Theus, and whatever random name people feel like rationalizing as being a possibility.

So, why not have a rumor of Minnesota coach Tubby Smith being a possible candidate? Maybe because, aside from Smith winning a national championship and being a "name" coach, the idea makes little sense.

Forget being "comfortable" and having a very good recruiting class coming next year, as cited in the story. How about the fact that Tubby Smith has been through a similar scenario before? Smith had to follow Rick Pitino at Kentucky. Winning a national championship wasn't enough because it was done with Pitino's players. Then it simply was that Smith could never measure up to the past coaching greats at Kentucky.

There was a reason he left, and moved to Minnesota. Why would he want to follow a sequel in Arizona where everything he did would be compared to Lute Olson? He's already seen how that kind of situation ends.

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