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A perfect analogy.This is a bit off topic, but I would urge many of you to take a look at the situation at Villanova.
Jay Wright retires. They choose a Wright disciple to replace him in Kyle Neptune. Neptune had one year as head coach at Fordham where he went 16-16.
The last two years while he 'learned on the job' (sound familiar?), Villanova went 35-33 and did not make the NCAA Tournament.
Neptune has been staked with a big-time NIL platform -- many believe it's $3-5M in total. He inherited Eric Dixon, who is a Player of the Year candidate, and they went out and brought in Wooga Poplar from Miami, a talented wing who would be, by far, Syracuse's best player.
They also overspent on a couple of local Philadelphia kids - Jhamir Brickus (La Salle) & Tyler Perkins (Penn), who cost them roughly $1M in total.
All that, and the team is 9-5 and will likely be a bubble team unless they pick it up in BE play.
Coaching matters. Neptune should have been gone last year but they kept him. Now they may get a 10 seed out of it, with one of the best players in the country who won't be back next year.
No amount of talent is going to make Red a good coach. And if you keep him next year it's a waste of resources in NIL and a year of service for the players.