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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 3655489, member: 1452"]
You never actually know until the asst takes that chasm-like step to the left.

Hop has had the benefit of learning from JB and that puts him ahead of where JB was 4-5 years into his coaching career but he is still a very young coach.  He needs to continue to learn and grow.  JB is a much better coach in 2020 than he was in 1980.  2020 JB does not get that technical foul vs Iowa, as an example.  And if those uber-talented squads of the mid to late eighties played with the defensive intensity that our 2013 and 2018 teams did, there is no doubt in my mind that 2003 would not be JB's lone ring.  Hop will be a better coach in 5 years than he is today and a better coach in 10 years than he will be in five years etc.

Having said all that I definitely want him back when JB retires, for several reasons:

Much like DB on the football side, he has shown that, when given talent, he can win.
He has already repeatedly shown his recruiting chops at SU.
He can be a lifer.

This last point is so important to me. 
The shaded portion of an EV diagram showing good coaches that will be willing to forego the much higher paydays available at other top programs is, IMHO, quite small.

And given the disappearance of most of the sizeable competitive advantages that we enjoyed during the eighties and early nineties (accruing more to hoops than football IMO), stability of good coaching becomes a key differentiator in my mind.
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