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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4151122, member: 40"]
Here's a better question:  if you took Hopkins's last name away and anonymously submitted a coaching candidate for our job with the same credentials / track record, would you hand the program over to a coach with the last three years he's had?

For the record, that includes:
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[*]A 5-13 conference record in 2019, good for a last place finish [and a losing 15-17 record overall].
[*]A 5-21 overall record in 2020, which includes a 4-16 [11th place out of 12 teams] conference record.
[*]And an 11-8 record [57%] so far this year, which includes home losses to Northern Illinois, Wyoming, and a double-digit loss to UTAH VALLEY!!!
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The SU fanbase would be rioting in the quad if we hired a coach with that track record.  I love Hopkins, and I'm extremely appreciative of his contributions to SU as both a player and a coach.  But this is a results-driven profession, and nostalgia isn't as important of an evaluative criteria as performance.
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