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If you're a guy like Marshall, Smart, or Brad Stevens, you're a made man on campus and you're only leaving for about one of 5-10 jobs:
Syracuse
Indiana
UNC
Duke
Kentucky
Kansas
Michigan St.
Florida
Connecticut
Arizona
The last three are in italics because they are more recent powers. I just can't see Marshall or Smart leaving for anything less than one of those jobs.
Missouri is a better opportunity than VCU or Wichita State because it has better resources, but along with those come expectations, and the gap between the MU job and WSU isn't large enough for Marshall to risk the move. If he fails at MU he likely goes back to the Valley. If he stays at WSU, he makes seven figures for the next 15 years. If he goes to a power school he has nearly unlimited resources and a school that recruits itself.
The risk of taking a job like MU is too big compared to the reward for a guy like Marshall. The only way you can make that difference up is by offering him so much jack he can't say no...and when has Missouri ever done that for a coach?
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