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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2135963, member: 1452"]
I'm going to disagree with you here.

I think Hop was in a no win situation here.

The move from asst to head is a huge move and he would be trying to replace a legend.

And, for some reason, fans seem to be less tolerant of an insider rather than an outsider.  Don't know why.

I think he will struggle as a first-time head coach - not because he is not capable of being a great head coach but because everyone struggles.  That doesn't mean he won't win but he is going to have to grow into being a head coach and that simply takes time.  In-game adjustments, substitution patterns, use of timeouts, feel for the game...that all takes time...

We all saw it last year during his stint as head coach.

Granted, it was not "his" team so he was really trying to be JB and not MH but the board, after watching JB for 40 years, has an instinctive "feel" for what JB is going to do in-game to adjust to the opposition and we didn't see Hop doing it and it made us uncomfortable...and that discomfort was reflected in a lot of the posts questioning whether he could be the "guy" after his 4-5 stint...

JB is three times the coach now that he was back in the 70s when he first took over...

That T he took vs Iowa, no way he gets that now...it changed that game and ended our season...

Hopkins may turn out to be better than JB and we may really wish he had stayed but, right now, I don't think it is a blunder that he has moved on...I just don't think he would get a fair shake here and get a chance to grow through his mistakes...and that would be bad for both him and the university...
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