This feels like one of those moves that is beneficial for both parties. Lee helping us land Slim pretty much defined his tenure. His run as defensive coordinator at GW though was mediocre at best and I think some changes to the staff are welcome after this past year.

It's time to bring Mike Hall home

Mike K wrote:

Another assistant gone.  That is 2 that have left.  Gotta figure (hope) CC has a plan to replace and add coaches. 

More isn’t necessarily better. Someone with some gray hair  would benefit Caputo. My view was that we carried way too many staff and it wasn’t entirely clear they were all necessary. Half our bench seemed to be staff.

This one's a bit tough to take.  Lee interviewed for the head coaching job at St. Bonaventure and had he been offered and accepted that role, I would have been very happy for him.  Instead, he moves to what should be considered a rival school in our conference, making a lateral move yet for undoubtedly more money.  None of this is illogical and of course Dwayne should take more money if it's offered.  It just doesn't sit well that we're competing against a school in our own conference who has the budget and program history to pull this off.  Similar to Boisvert leaving for SLU.  It's one thing to lose guys to P5 programs but it's another losing out on lateral moves to conference foes.

I do get that.  It's not only more money but it also represents a more feasible path to move up the coaching ladder.  Look at all of the VCU assistant coaches who eventually became head coaches at VCU and then at P5 programs...Shaka, Wade, Rhoades.  Plus Grant and Odom who moved onto bigger programs after being a head coach at VCU.  By contrast, how many GW assistants went on to eventually become head coaches at P5 schools?  Other than Steve Pikiell, nobody else comes to mind.

dmvpiranha wrote:

Assistants move around all the time. We got Straughn from St. Joe's not too long ago which I guess could have been considered a lateral move (although he was also coming back closer to home). Lee's connections to the Martelli family makes the move make a lot of sense. Good luck to him and hopefully GW can try something new defensively.

At least we didn't have our AD poached by a conference foe, like La Salle just did. That's a lot more troubling.
 

Good point on the Martelli connection. Completely forgot about that. 

I second the call for Mike Hall on the bench. He has coaching experience now ... if that was an issue in the past. He'd be great at working with the team on defense as well. And I have to believe he would be great at recruiting. 

John Krikorian (D3 Christopher Newport head coach who led them to a national championship and 4 Final Fours) just took a job as an assistant at Elon. I would have loved to bring him in

A new assistant coach that could help the team finish games down the stretch would be a welcome addition.