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The door swings both ways for sure. That said, would be hard to reel in someone of Garcia's talent should he depart. Hoping like heck he doesn't.

In the free-transfer era, there's nothing you can't build back up in short order. It's just a question of whether anything like that WILL actually happen.

I guess that explains their new means. We have now been passed by Nebraska. Coaching hires have consequences.

I guess you pick your poison. No matter what the number is (zero or some cap), you face the same cheating potential. Is this new world better than that? Does one want to live in a world where we have no environmental regulation because we assume everyone will cheat, so what's the point? I...

Their fan base is not rabid for basketball, though.

What you're looking for is the right balance of stability and flexibility. The previous rule was arguably too inflexible. The current state of chaos is too unstable. They need to admit that and continue to seek the right balance. They fail to act at the sport's peril.

Sports leagues exist and succeed at the pleasure of their fans who pay the bills. This is becoming increasingly less pleasurable. At some point, anything will break or at least decline precipitously.

The problem is, even if Garcia and Christie had been planning to stick it out, today's developments might change that.

He had a scoreboard installed in his office so he could look up at it.

Yeah, I can't imagine thinking that who you hire is immaterial.

I swear I read him being quoted as stating that. Maybe I dreamed it.

It's no different than college players unrealistically thinking they're NBA prospects.

"Never tell me the odds."

Johnson's choice and preference to do things the old way--recruit young and keep and development--has seemed to me to be an error in judgment from the get go.

Everyone has their reasons. I'll hold out hope.

Nagy can coach.

Unfortunately, we're a Garcia away from a tipping point to disaster.

I've been a big booster of the Musselman option in the past, but what we've seen this year from him looks from a distance like burnout and, at the very least, erratic behavior. That could be a false perception, but he's no longer the sure thing he was at one time.

That was my first thought exactly. His words were something like, "If this group stays together..." Well, we're on to Plan B, whatever that is. If Coyle is sincere about building a "championship program," in his words, it's on him to chart a realistic path from where we are right now to that.

Yes, but where?