At this point his own arrogance and lack of coaching ability has backed his "career" into a serious dead end.
Had he left after the 2023 season he could have used the excuse of "lack of institutional investment" as the reason and other schools would have gladly bought that, hired him to a long term deal with a raise, and he'd be their problem now. By staying and absolutely imploding the past two seasons, he can no longer use that excuse as it comes off as disingenuous. No program with all of the things he wants would hire him. Any program who would be willing to hire him won't have those things, and thus him complaining about them will be a turn off to them as well. Coming back for a third straight disasterous season will do further damage to himself.
bob at best is going to need to do a major rehabilitation to his value if he wants to continue to making college coaching a career. At worst, he's basically done in the profession. At this point he'll need to go back to a low mid-major, if one would have him, and try to win enough to one day get a shot at a high mid-major or better. The issue is that people will always look at how badly things went when he was coaching at this level and that will always be a knock against him. For me his best chance at redemption would be to swallow his ego, work out a severance package with ASU that GR can live with, appeal to Rick Pitino to work under him and rebuild his reputation with the possibility of taking over St. John's in 5+ seasons.
Had he left after the 2023 season he could have used the excuse of "lack of institutional investment" as the reason and other schools would have gladly bought that, hired him to a long term deal with a raise, and he'd be their problem now. By staying and absolutely imploding the past two seasons, he can no longer use that excuse as it comes off as disingenuous. No program with all of the things he wants would hire him. Any program who would be willing to hire him won't have those things, and thus him complaining about them will be a turn off to them as well. Coming back for a third straight disasterous season will do further damage to himself.
bob at best is going to need to do a major rehabilitation to his value if he wants to continue to making college coaching a career. At worst, he's basically done in the profession. At this point he'll need to go back to a low mid-major, if one would have him, and try to win enough to one day get a shot at a high mid-major or better. The issue is that people will always look at how badly things went when he was coaching at this level and that will always be a knock against him. For me his best chance at redemption would be to swallow his ego, work out a severance package with ASU that GR can live with, appeal to Rick Pitino to work under him and rebuild his reputation with the possibility of taking over St. John's in 5+ seasons.
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