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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2865594, member: 405"] And then there's #3, the most plausible reason he is unlikely to return, which nobody seems to want to talk about. He was promised the job by a certain date, that date was postponed, and then postponed again. Hop lost heart that JB would ever give up the job willingly, and Mike, as he said in at least 1 interview, "Didn't want to be that guy" who pushed JB out the door. But the fact of the matter is that he was strung along for about a decade as "Coach in Waiting", until it must have seemed to him that wasn't going to get a chance at the top job until he was as old as Bill Guthridge was at UNC when he took over for Dean Smith. [/QUOTE]