+1. And add to that:Holloway's SHU coaching career has almost perfectly tracked Willard's. Two top 60 kenpom seasons, followed by an unmitigated disaster in year 3 with a full roster of his own recruits. We gave Willard - a guy who was universally known to be aiming higher than SHU - six years to figure things out. Everyone, including me, was certain that Willard could not coach at the Big East level after year 5. Most were certain after years 3 and 4. Yet, we gave him the time and it turned out to be correct.
We will be giving Holloway - a potential SHU lifer - at least that much time, if not more, assuming he does not leave on his own.
There is no getting around the team is bad and Sha is struggling, I’ll be the first to say he’s done a bad job putting this roster together and coaching it, but even with this year and taking over a bad SPU team, he has a .541 career winning percentage. And if I recall, he also had the best first 2-year record of any SHU coach. He’s going to get 5-6 years, so get happy with it.