So if Hop signs for 2 years and doesn't work we have to pay Gerry and give him 4. Where do we go from there? Do we know if Buddy Boeheim will be ready to coach.
That's kind of where I'm at, too.
JB himself has gone on record after stepping down that he didn't adapt certain parts of his system toward the end to align with the modern college game. He was also an exponentially better X's and O's coach than anyone on his coaching tree. Even so, the results tangibly slipped at the end, over a multi-year span. Despite that, they made a continuity hire because some BoT members and prominent donors wanted to hang onto the past.
And Red flopped, trying to admittedly do different stuff than JB, but with disastrous results on both sides of the ball.
And now a subset of the BoT and donors are pushing Hopkins, even though he showed poor systems on both sides of the ball at UW.
At some point, when are we going to stop trying to do the same things and hope for a different result? What is the hang up with just hiring the best coach we can, instead of constraining ourselves -- ESPECIALLY when the internal candidates are all lacking, to various degrees?
And I think you probably meant it in jest -- but if prominent alums have set their sights on Hop after the Red debacle, then it stands to reason that Gerry would be their NEXT "solution."
This program desperately needs an infusion of new blood / new ideas. Not marching out the same 'ol same 'ol to see if shiz sticks against the wall this time.
