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<blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 131983951" data-attributes="member: 1812660"><p>Huggins is a HOF coach.&nbsp; He is also going to be 69 years old going into next season.&nbsp; Historically even HOF coaches decline in performance at this point in the career.&nbsp; This season is the second time in the last 4 years that the wheels have completely fallen off the wagon.&nbsp; Then there is the new NIL and transfer portal landscape making it very difficult for a coach like Huggins who builds from the ground up.&nbsp; All that combines not toward firing, but toward the admin making plans.&nbsp; Perhaps Huggins will retire on his own.&nbsp; But if next season is just like this or only marginally better, the admin will be facing a choice.&nbsp; Gamble that a now 70 year old coach might hold together a roster for one last NCAA run while risking a losing to mediocre stretch that builds toward nothing.&nbsp; So the question is not about firing Huggins, but how much latitude he gets to leave on his own terms.&nbsp; Because like I said if next year is not much better than this one, then there is a real chance Huggins ends out his career more like Catlett did than in a fashion worthy of his HOF career if Huggins is given carte blanche to retire on his own terms and Huggins tries to make it 3 or more years.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="The Bell Tolls for Thee, post: 131983951, member: 1812660"] Huggins is a HOF coach. He is also going to be 69 years old going into next season. Historically even HOF coaches decline in performance at this point in the career. This season is the second time in the last 4 years that the wheels have completely fallen off the wagon. Then there is the new NIL and transfer portal landscape making it very difficult for a coach like Huggins who builds from the ground up. All that combines not toward firing, but toward the admin making plans. Perhaps Huggins will retire on his own. But if next season is just like this or only marginally better, the admin will be facing a choice. Gamble that a now 70 year old coach might hold together a roster for one last NCAA run while risking a losing to mediocre stretch that builds toward nothing. So the question is not about firing Huggins, but how much latitude he gets to leave on his own terms. Because like I said if next year is not much better than this one, then there is a real chance Huggins ends out his career more like Catlett did than in a fashion worthy of his HOF career if Huggins is given carte blanche to retire on his own terms and Huggins tries to make it 3 or more years. [/QUOTE]

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