re: It's time! Pessimistic outlook of Billy Kennedy's final season

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and if we have a losing season next year?

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honestly that's a fairly unrealistic worry.

FTR, the contract details haven't even been finalized and the release was put out entirely for recruiting purposes. The five years shows commitment to a guy that is dealing with Parkinson's and enables him to effectively counter the negative recruiting.

Our 2015 class included 4 top 40-60 players. One quit so the on court play is the result of 3 guys in that range. Our 2016 class currently has 2 in that range already signed and we're still recruiting (likely to sign at least 2 more). For 2017 we already have another in that range committed.

I'm not a huge fan of Kennedy, but the fact is he has cleared us of the APR issues and now he's accumulating a lot of excellent 4-year talent and it's going to take some extraordinary things to happen for us to fall off the map over the next 3-4 years.

So realistically there is not going to be any consideration to firing him until 4-5 years out even if he's as bad as you think. I'd suggest everyone just enjoy what we have (which is a pretty damn good and entertaining basketball team with a very bright present and future) and quit dwelling on things past.