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Catching up on the coaching carousel

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Athletic directors aren't hesitating to look outside the region to make a hire. Partially influenced by coaching search firms and also by the effort to do something unpredictable, their choices led the coaching carousel to take some sharp, dramatic turns in the past three weeks. Here's a look at some of the most significant hires to date with only one major opening left at this point in Xavier: Alabama Out: Mark Gottfried In: VCU's Anthony Grant The move: Grant made sense. He coach ...

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