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[QUOTE="Antiprodigy, post: 2135301, member: 582"]
I wasn't going to get sucked in, because this is supposed to be a thread about Hameir Wright, but I have to ask why the question.  I understand that until Hop left, JB was (in name) the head coach, but he was going to be retiring before these kids would ever play for SU, or at best only have 1 year with JB. Whereas, Hop was going to be their head coach for most, if not all of their SU career.

With that being said, is it any wonder that Hop would be the lead on these players rather than JB?  For some reason this idea surprises a majority of the people who post regularly in these threads, and I have to wonder why?  JB WAS NOT GOING TO BE AROUND!  Why should he be 1 of the 2 people with heavy face time?!?

It seems to me that your wrath is misplaced.  Rather than ripping on JB or even Gmac, maybe you should be wondering why Hop was AWOL so much? Or why he decided to put Gmac in charge of so much, so quickly?

I think it is clear that JB stepped back, in order to give Hop the room he would need to build a team that he was happy with.  And, IMO JB did the correct thing by stepping back and giving Hop the freedom.  I also think it is clear, that at least in this case, Hop was found to be inferior.  I think he expected to be able to do things the way JB can, but the problem with that, is that Hop doesn't have the resume that JB does, so he can't work that way.

Now that there is clarity on who is going to be in charge, rather than the way it has been this past year, I expect to see much more initiative being shown and more recruiting activity.  I expect Red to be more involved, and I expect to hear JB's name more.

Maybe this will be proven to be untrue, but I feel fairly confident that time will prove me to be correct.
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