When K retired, it came down to Scheyer and Tommy Amaker, but Amaker didn’t want to leave Harvard to be K’s lead assistant for the final year and K would have had to push an assistant out to make that happen. (Why the heir apparent had to serve a year with K, I’m not sure, but that’s what Ian O’Connor’s book said.) There were too many potential successors at every point in the last two decades for Collins turn down a major-conference job and hope to wait it out.
As a Collins fan still apologetic about wanting him fired a few years ago, I’d love to see him get a shot at a top-10 or top-20 program just to see if he can win a natty. But that is outweighed by having him here.
