We saw it long enough at Xavier, we accepted it. We assumed it was true. Coaches would come and they would go, but not before vowing to stay. Coaching at Xavier was one of the greatest auditions in college basketball.
We were OK with that, because every coach XU hired seemed better than the one he replaced. Xavier wanted young, ambitious men-in-a-hurry. So what if part of their motivation was to do well enough to leave? The university never missed on a replacement. It was like hitting on first-round draft picks, year after year.
That was then.