As I said, I thought it would be a great hire, it's just the sort of move that so often doesn't come to pass for whatever reason.

if ND hired Urban Meyer -- happy that the well-deserved skepticism was wrong.

There are plenty of folks in the volleyball community that are fairly shocked/puzzled over McLaughlin's move given his success at UW, the lack of volleyball success at ND recently, and his own West Coast ties (grew up in Southern California). Admittedly, it seems that most of those folks were also unaware of the ND/midwest connection through his wife.