Jack did an excellent job in this thread of encapsulating our concerns with a hire like Blake Ahearn. Ourview of the program is skewed by not being from St. Louis, and not being local now, but SLU should have national aspirations as a program, not limit themselves to St. Louis.
Ahearn wouldn’t be a bad hire, nor would he be a great hire, but he’d be reflective of the type of hyper localized thinking that can hold back SLU and St. Louis as a whole. However, if that thinking is inevitable, Ahearn would probably be the best result of that thought process