If your car dies do you spend time thinking about all the potential faults of your new car? If a relationship is over do you start wondering about how crappy the next relationship is? If your job sucks do you start imagining how awful your new job will be? Lavin is finished here. Next year will even be worse. At this point I really do think it will be mutual. I think he knows he can't get the program over the hump and I honestly think he stopped trying, Time to move on regardless of who is on deck!
If your boss is okay, is there a guarantee that your next boss isn't worse? If your girlfriend is okay, is there a guarantee that if you dump her your next gf will be better? It's probably time for a change but it could get a lot worse!
That doesn't apply to sports and competition. Anyone in charge with a brain doesn't wonder if there's anybody better out there before making a change. They know in their heart of hearts that the person currently in charge is not getting the job done..period! End of story!
They make a change because they believe someone else can come in and lead their team to be more competitive and more wins.
However in this example, I'm assuming that the person on top who makes these decisions has a clue what they're talking about (Monasch, the school president).
I don't believe this AD knows what it takes to build a big time college basketball program. I think he feels like if SJU is a good little local team and generates a little buzz that's ok. If that's what this AD wants then he should go to Fordham or Manhattan where that's very acceptable and he'd be good for.
Yet not at St. John's which at one time was a marquee hoops school. Noone in their right mind thinks anything is marquee about the hoops being played by this team.