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Message: [QUOTE="supp, post: 1013431, member: 702"] Yeah, the guy has stayed here because he was told this was his job. The moment schools started sniffing around a few years back is when we heard about the whole coach-in-waiting thing. Boeheim made a pitch to keep him because he knows how valuable he is to his success. I also believe that Boeheim thought that he was closer to retirement a few years back than he perhaps does now. No doubt, though, that the whole "the job is yours when I retire" spiel becomes a little tiresome when the "when" never seems to come. Hop wants to run his own program. It has little to do with money. Sure money matters since these are likely Hop's prime earning years but he can only get so much credit for wins he earns for Boeheim. I think Boeheim knows that too but he's clearly not going to step down just because of Hop's desire to be a HC. So we don't hear the rumors so much about SU scrambling to keep him anymore. [/QUOTE]