Since we’re all dreamers when our team is doing well, I was envisioning Syracuse winning the championship this year and wondering if Jimmy B would then retire. But I thought about the great incoming class next year, and the fact that we’d still have a great team, and I thought, No way. Maybe I was wrong!

Seriously.

He’s DEFINITELY at my table for the “if you could invite 4 people over for dinner who would they be” – he is # F*ing 1. Pretty much the most badass guy on the face of the earth.

He would be leaving a solid young team with Hop that features a couple key senior leaders, so Hop can get momentum into his tenure. Not that I want him to leave, but if he is ready it would be a pretty good time for all involved (assuming it’s a good season; don’t want him going out on a low note).

He says this every year. He’s going to keep coaching until he wakes up and decides he’s done. Been that way for years now. Every time people ask him about Hopkins and what his plans are for the future, he says something in this vein. No need to freak out.

I guess I sort of figure that JB has been year-to-year for a while now in the sense that he has accomplished a lot. So whenever he decides he doesn’t want to coach any more, he will stop.

Gross will take credit for finding our next coach

that he won’t retire until Calhoun does.