It was a plan set in motion for more than a month before the final buzzer sounded on Villanova’s season.
No official moves were made, though, but there was a lot of contemplating and possibly reconsidering.
Villanova president Fr. Peter Donohue and athletic director Mark Jackson unsurprisingly tried to persuade Jay Wright into staying, well before the shockwaves shook up college basketball.
“They’re great salesmen and intelligent people,” Wright said of the tandem. “One of the times, they said, 70% of you is as good as anybody else, which I appreciate, but we couldn’t coach that way.