The Pendleton assistants are/were very good. With that said it would be tough for a head coach to work with guys he didn't know and who had worked for the coach who was run out. The same is true for the assistants. Coach Cravens should have been allowed to pick his staff if he was not given that opportunity. The Pendleton assistants, if quality, would have landed somewhere else and the head coach could have people he knew and trusted on his bench.