hired.
http://tigerboard.com/boards/view.php?message=14646155
https://mutigers.com/news/2017/3/15/mens-basketball-martin.aspx
Lots of potential tea leaves to read here, but my personal guess is that Sterk had a guy he liked all along, and that guy is not someone being actively discussed in the USC/FSU/Arkansas/Ole Miss string of coaching dominoes.