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Good process doesn’t guarantee good results, but it’s the best place to start.

Later today, the Washington State Cougars will officially introduce Kyle Smith as the coach of men’s basketball team, and there appears to be some disagreement as to whether he was the first choice of athletics director Pat Chun.

Cougfan’s Barry Bolton reported last week that Chun “wanted Boise State’s Leon Rice or Montana’s Travis DeCuire to be Washington State’s next head basketball coach but both said no thanks.” Before long, Spokesman-Review writer Theo Lawson tweeted, “According to a source, Kyle Smith was the only person offered the #WSU job. Other reports have indicated #BSU’s Leon Rice and #Montana’s Travis DeCuire were offered by the Cougars.