Extreme confidence or flat-out delusions of grandeur?
It’s tough to figure out which path Jim Boylen was walking before Friday’s news that the Bulls were parting ways with the head coach after just two seasons.
Maybe it was both.
Because while everything around him screamed that he would in no way see the final two years of the three-year contract extension he was given in the 2019 offseason, a source told the Sun-Times that even as late as this week, Boylen remained confident that he would have whistle in mouth at the Advocate Center when the 2020-21 season began.