The problem is that the dropoff (on paper) from Beard to the next best attainable candidate might be pretty steep.
We're not poaching from a blue blood. Izzo's, Huggins', Boeheim's, and Hamiltons' next stop is retirement. We're not taking Juwan Howard from his alma mater; same with Matt Painter. We're not touching coaches with NCAA issues at previous stops (Sampson, Pitino). Oats, Musselman, Scott Drew, and Underwood are at schools that will pay up to keep their guys in place (or Texas isn't enough of a step up). Other established championship-contending coaches at non-bluebloods appear to be on "lifer" trajectory (Few, Wright, Bennett). Boynton just signed a major extension.
Where does that leave us? A couple good candidates, and a lot of meh:
Dana Altman (viable alternative, but Oregon/Nike can easily pay up to keep him. There are also those lingering sexual assault issues)
Chris Holtmann (Ohio State can pay up to keep him, and he just suffered the one NCAA upset that was worse than Shaka)
Chris Mack (Louisville can pay up to keep him, but they do they want to? Should we want him if they don't?)
Fran McCaffrey
Greg Gard
Steve Piekell
Andy Enfield
Tad Boyle
Mike White
Cuonzo Martin
Mike Young
Brad Brownell
Greg McDermott
Kevin Willard
Danny Hurley
Bobby Hurley