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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 3298369, member: 668"]
As the captain of the ship, JB is fully culpable for the state of the basketball program.  He is responsible for the sanctions, along with the ensuing effects of same, regardless if deemed too harsh.  Additionally, being told afterwards by the administration of his 3 year time frame to remain as coach, involuntarily & against his free will, boiled his blood and ate at his core.  Furthermore, he checked out on the recruiting trail (planting even deeper roots and further exacerbating the direction of his program and the latent damage he & he alone created because of it) as it was no longer his future, but Hop's.

When Hop unexpectedly & abruptly left, the administration was suddenly at a major crossroads that they clearly did not foresee.  Ultimately, the administration decided to keep the status quo in JB.  To his astonishment, JB, like a child whose parent after saying no repeatedly to that cookie before dinner, gets his wish granted after all...a stroke of fate/luck.  He becomes reinvigorated & reengages in the recruiting scene, but the bleeding had already begun from his culpable conduct and relative behavioral disinterest there.  However, although reengaged, the bleeding hasn't stopped, as he has been unsuccessful stabilizing the heartbeat of his (any) program from an overall[I] talent[/I] standpoint. His failures on the recruiting trail are causally related to our play on the court, the past several seasons of conference mediocrity and its current state.

This is on him, his ship, his culpability.
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