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It's unfathomable that Pat Chambers still has a job.
That's not because he's an incompetent coach, an insufferable individual or in any way bad for Penn State's men's basketball program.
It's simply because nobody gets this long to make the NCAA tournament for the first time at a major-conference program.
If you're lucky, and if you inherited a mess of a roster situation, maybe you get three tournament-free years before landing on the hot seat and five years before you get run out of town. That has been the formula at DePaul, Rutgers and Washington State, each of which has an active tournament drought of at least a decade and no head coaches who made it into a sixth season during that seemingly endless dry spell.