I knew upon his hiring, that this coach was a project. Giving him anything less than 10 years is a waste.
I'm sorry, but no coach gets a 10 year probationary period in the Big Ten.
The only way I can find any logic in this type of thinking is that people may be considering the 7 years as an investment that needs further time to come to fruition. However, that is the fallacy of valuing the sunk cost in decision making. Just because you invested a lot in something in the past doesn't mean that you are bound to continue investing in it in the summer. What matters is the future - not how much time we devoted to this coach already.
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