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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 4573871, member: 668"]
I'd push back here in regards to your sentiment in the [I]"exact same spot."[/I]  This is hardly the case in my opinion.  First, at 55 years of age (during his last season at SU) P was a spring chicken compared to JB. Moreover, the proximate cause of the [I]"program going down hill"[/I] and [I]"recruiting mediocre at best" [/I]was the gross negligence on behalf of his superiors and the powers that be at the time. Our facilities, infrastructure, etc. had become significant laggards in the the industry that was Division 1 football. It played a huge role in how our recruiting had dropped off to where it did, and P's lack of success.

Paul went on to coach for years in the NFL afterwards.  Today, there isn't any NBA team that would give JB a sniff at anything, let alone another P5/P6 type level hoops program at his age.  The one similarity between the two, was the fact that each only had one losing record during his tenure.

In the broader scope, nowadays with all of the infrastructure, facility improvements, etc. the university has afforded its revenue sports teams, the comparison isn't close to being in the same ballpark.
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