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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2128750, member: 966"] I woke up in LA/3 hrs behind liberal east coast news, and read the still expanding 30+ page thread in record time, not skipping ahead to read the last page first... expecting to find answers near the end. What the actual frack?! • Makes sense for Hop, if he couldn't get a long (4-6) year contract with SU. He gets guaranteed 6 years, at a salary that probably beats ours even if he were to take over next year. • He gets to be his own man. Not follow a "genius/legend." Not feel like he has to mirror the established system. Be closer to dad. • Eearlier in the bread I was thinking if he's reasonably successful at Washington, maybe SU wants him back if JB stays 4-5 years. SU pays one or two years of Buyout money. But, that's unlikely. • It's very hard for me to understand the timing in all of this. One day after losing at home to a crap team in the NIT and JB is all ready to decide his future? I would expect he'd want to decompress and take a little time. This sorta smacks of an administration saying Enough is enough—this mediocrity will not stand. • How did the Washington offer happen? Roma's is out for a week, and udub must have had a shortlist and feelers out for weeks. When was the offer made? Just now, or was this some sort of contingency thing, where they've known Roma's was going to be ousted for months? • What must have been Hopkins' over/under for a decision to stay or go? JB stringing him along is uncool. Saying The Plan was up in the air a couple of weeks ago must have felt like a slap in the face to Hop regardless of Hop's respect for JB. I'm kinda sick about all this. Feel bad for Hopkins—not for him getting millions of dollars, but that he sorta 'lost' time, and for us, because I would have wanted to see how he did with/for SU. I can't imagine JB convinced the AD that he has the stamina to keep going. And that the ad thinks it's just fine and not at all coincidental that JB stopped coaching practice and recruiting and we've been on the bubble/.500 consistently. How can he believe JB is going to lose his top assistant, gobble geritol, convince recruits that he will be there for the long haul when he just said it's a year to year thing... and turn it all around, at ages 72-75? Did the press conference happen while I was writing this? Do we now have answers? [/QUOTE]

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