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Message: [QUOTE="Matrim55, post: 2500985, member: 3376"] Indiana after Davis hired Kelvin Sampson – a very, very good coach with a history of rules violations. Guess what happened? They'd have been really good had Sampson just stayed clean (and to be fair, his rule violation w/ the Hoosiers was so freaking minor it's almost laughable), but he didn't, and they completely cratered. In Crean's first 3 years they went 6-25, 10-21, 12-20 while recovering from sanctions. So, going from Davis to Sampson definitely made things worse. Similar for UNC, who replaced Smith's hand-picked successor (Billy Guthridge) after three mediocre seasons, opting for Matt Doherty. Doherty's first season was good (26-7), but then he went 8-20 in his second and 19-16 in his third before getting the ax. Then they hired Roy (for my money, the best coach of the post-Wooden era – sorry JC & K) and have been the best program in the country ever since. So yeah, firing a disappointing successor can make it better, but it can also make it worse. It all comes down to the obvious thing: Make sure you hire the right guy for the job. [/QUOTE]