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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2453900, member: 780"]
JB will stay as long as he wants to.

SU basketball truly is the goose that lays the golden eggs on the Hill. SU basketball is offsetting a very mediocre football program and helping fund the rest of the SU athletic program.

If SU basketball goes into a funk, it has serious, serious ramifications for the school.

Nobody at SU is going to take the risk that they can hire a successor that will even be as successful as JB, let alone more successful.

That is, even with the assurances of random Internet posters that this is a plum job and that SU would have no problem doing as well or even upgrading the program through some sort of outstanding new hire.

I think I remember the same sort of confidence from posters at the end of the MacPherson - Pasqualoni era after one bad and two mediocre seasons. The fate could easily befall SU basketball.

One of the few things that Crouthamel said that I thought was intelligent was his observation that these programs are "fragile". They are kept afloat by perceptions and once these perceptions change from positive to negative, its extremely difficult to change them.
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