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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 5603868, member: 8594"]
*6 years.  Arguably 5.

A Final Four run earns just about any coach at least another 2 seasons, objectively, regardless of the regular season, especially coming off 28 and 30 win seasons before the NCAA’s, frankly, absurd sanctions (that predominately landed on the Athletic Department’s shoulders, but a coach’s ‘failure to promote a culture of compliance’ is the only hammer they have to swing so they swing it).  That brings him to the 17-18 season before one could reasonably argue he held the program hostage.  He went to the Sweet 16 that season.  Coaches are rarely fired after a Sweet 16 but the program was clearly slipping at this point. That Sweet 16 earned him another season and it’s at least debatable whether it should have. Bad season but still a NCAAT birth, then Covid season, then Sweet 16.

I’d argue the hostage taking was 3 or 4 years and see the argument for 5 or 6.  It certainly wasn’t 8.  If we’re using the logic that NCAA sanctions should get a coach fired, then like half of the program’s greatest seasons or more maybe get wiped off the books.  If we’re saying a couple regular seasons with double digit losses gets you canned, then the stretch of dominance from ‘10-‘14 probably never happens.
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