Medved doesn't really excite me. I think it is important to be careful of coaches at mid-major's who have won with a great player who is better than that level. You have to weigh that success - did they get lucky and hit a homerun with a recruit that was much better than their level, or do they consistently identify under the radar talent they win with and/or have a consistently strong system that wins as players change.I'm not sure how realistic DeVries is. Coaches don't usually leave after one year. But it's worth a shot.
Brownell was a long-shot in the first place, but I figured if they ended up a bubble team again, he might be open to jumping. With the year they're having, his seat is no longer anywhere near warm and we almost certainly can't afford him or his buyout. It's gone from a long-shot to no shot IMO.
I kind of view Medved as the baseline hire. Coyle shouldn't have to go further down the list than that. He doesn't really excite me, but I think he would at least bring us back to competence. I hope he can get one of the bigger targets though.
My concern with many of these mid-major coaches who have had a couple of years of success is that it is often about a player or two they got lucky with, not a system of play or consistent roster development they have demonstrated. The mid-major coaches who have been successful when they stepped up to a P4 job typically have had a long run of high-level success at the mid-major level. Medved has been middling when you look at his records other than one year at Furman, and his best years at CSU were with Roddy. Not sure how that transfers with a step up.