My god, has Collins ever been horrible since that historic NCAAT berth in 2017. Back then, I would have been very pleased to have him replace K. Quite the fall. Capel has also been a complete disaster at Pitt, have to imagine he’ll be fired at the end of the season. Year four, and he hasn’t achieved a single winning record, and the program appears to be in disarray.
The lack of success from the coaching tree overall is why I’m ultimately fine with K staying on post-2015 (though maybe not the last two years), even with all the frustration we have had to deal with. There was no obvious successor until Scheyer emerged, and given the first hire was always going to be a K disciple, it’s easy to imagine a timeline where the program fades away into irrelevance under Collins/Capel/Wojo/Dawkins if he’d retired after 2015 or even 2017. K remaining HC allowed for the recruiting machine and Duke brand to be solidified to the point that they should be able to survive for a while after he’s gone.
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