11.   Taylor Smith remains president, but he delegated everything from personnel to coaching decisions to Reeves last year.

12.   The coaching decision may be based, in part, on whether the team decides to keep several of its core players, all of whom support Van Gundy.

13.   The coaching decision to put Springs into the starting lineup almost immediately after his silly holdout may eventually pay off.

14.   USC administrators are reportedly beginning to lose patience with the prolonged coaching decision, but Garrett remains firm with his Wednesday deadline on making a decision.

15.   Van Gundy had drawn pregame attention with a significant coaching decision.

16.   When you have an admittedly talented team wind up underachieving because of poor coaching decisions, the typical response is to can the head man.

17.   Wonder who made all those coaching decisions.

18.   You look at it as a coaching decision.

19.   Davie said the biggest change for the Irish this season was a coaching decision to be more aggressive, more reckless.

20.   The coaching decisions may have had something to do with that.