I’m wondering if Treliving has an aversion to coaches that are famous enough to be able to ignore him. Remember that Brad himself is still a new, unproven GM. I imagine someone like AV, Sutter, Trotz and people of that caliber/reputation would have an ego that would require a big name GM to keep in check.
I guess I’m saying that bigger-named coaches may want more input into player decisions than Brad is willing to give (or able to not give). Like if he hired Darryl Sutter, I imagine Sutter would be more demanding about acquiring certain players, and with Sutter’s pedigree, Brad would probably lose any internal power struggles, and before long it would be more Darryl’s team than Brad’s team. Why would Brad hire into a situation like that?
So we may just continue to higher coaches without any real pedigree. I mean, I don’t really care too much about having a big name coach. I just want someone who knows how to “coach-on-the-fly” in the middle of a game.
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