The below was submitted to CH as a Letter to the Editor:
News broke earlier this week that N.C. State has already been looking for a replacement for Head Coach Mark Gottfried and the knives have been out for quite awhile for Head Coach John Groce at Illinois.
Though both situations are unique, there are some significant similarities to the recent lack of success that Gottfried and Groce have had at N.C. State and Illinois respectively compared to how John Thompson III's Hoya teams have fared.
In his first four seasons at N.