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[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 2087331, member: 87"]
In no way am I promising that Hopkins will take the program up a notch when he takes over, but it's certainly not impossible.

All organizations face scenarios like this, having to replace skilled managers and leaders who have elevated the company in their time. But new generations of people are always behind them, and many times those new generations bring energy, new ideas, and excitement that lead the company to be even stronger. Everyone knows that as of this moment in time, Hopkins probably isn't the caliber of head coach that Boeheim is, how could he be? But he is a much younger man and that does mean something. It has value. Mike will be like a new CEO, one who has been in upper management at the company for a long time and who has been to the best schools. There's nobody available who has prepared more for this job. Doesn't mean he will be amazing, but he is certainly lower risk than a lot of people think and he has a big potential upside to him. All these things we fans think we see wrong with the program, Hopkins sees them too, in spades, with an actual educated eye and he's going to be in a position to resolve them. The biggest risk is that he's too close to things and can't see the things that need to be fixed or improved because he's been too closely involved for so long. But that risk has a pretty low consequence associated with it.
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