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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 4140549, member: 6357"] Yeah. Syverud tried to push him out after probation 7 years ago, told him he needed to set a retirement timeline, but the most he got out of him was 3-years. Hop was made the head coach designate/in waiting. Then JB operated quietly behind the scenes for a few years to have the 3 year timeline set aside. Hop got wind of it, understood JB didn’t really want to retire, and he didn’t want to be the guy that pushed his legendary mentor out when he wasn’t ready to go. Plus, Buddy started looking like a possibility to be a D1 player. So Hop jumped at the Washington job when it came his way. …We’d finally had a succession plan in place. I really wish Hop hadn’t been such a good guy in that situation. We’d be long past the JB era now and well into knowing whether Hop would’ve worked out here as a head coach. And JB would still have gotten his fifth Final Four in 2016, a great high note to conclude his career. [/QUOTE]