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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 5221784, member: 8240"] I tend to disagree. To be successful over the long haul today you need to know how to manage a program and a key part of that is your ability to assess each player's skills and mindset and figure out how to make them successful and keep them happy (with the added pressures of NIL and, soon to be implemented, Revenue Sharing) while satisfying the fans, the AD and the players and their families. It's easy to do in your mind, but it's not so easy when it's all on you. It seems to me the vast majority of coaches who have been successful and had long tenures at major programs developed their coaching and, perhaps more importantly, their management skills at lower level programs. They made mistakes, and learned from them, and grew into their roles. JC is a great example. Boeheim and Roy Williams would be two examples of coaches who stepped right into the head coaching position of a major program with no head coaching experience, but they began in a much different era and didn't face the kind of pressure to win that coaches face today AND they didn't have all the intricacies of NIL, soon to be Revenue Sharing, and annual transfers into and out of their programs. Jay Wright and Tony Bennett saw it coming and got out. One way to look at all the pressure today is you'll make so much money on a well negotiated five to seven year first contract that you're set for life even if it doesn't work out. [/QUOTE]