Then they obviously would be immune to that sort of changeover. But some other things can impact those decisions even if youre doing the best you can given the resources...the biggest one being age. MY is close enough to retirement age that dumping money into the program even in a best case scenario will only yield short term results and then you have to make a new hire anyway. So is James Franklin in it for the long haul at VT? If not, do you want to be making football and basketball hires at the same time? Absolutely not. Miss on either one of them and it could tank your whole tenure. So if it doesnt make sense to ramp up funding for the basketball program just to make a new hire in a couple years, then the best path (for the AD, certainly not for the program or for MY) is to reduce funding for the basketball program, make it difficult to win, then have a conversation about retiring or stepping down when they inevitably have middling results. The previous admin saw this as the path forward and pulled out the resources they had promised so they could sell this strategy to prospective ADs. It could get real ugly if MY were to have a big year this season with reduced resources making it less popular to push him out. You'd have to give him a cushy landing spot and a long term role in administration just to convince him to move on. Then you'd have to push resources to basketball to hire a new coach and ramp up the efforts to ensure that hire worked. All while needing to feed James Franklin. The most likely outcome is MY outcoaches his resources but it does not lead to an NCAAT bid. He obviously would be doing enough to keep his job but they will work out a deal to pay him in an admin role and "retire" for a reasonable price.