As you may have heard, Xavier has fired head coach Travis Steele. Steele had been with the program in some capacity for 15 years, stepping in 4 seasons ago to take the head coaching job for which he had been groomed for some time. Obviously, it didn’t end well.
It didn’t have to, though. Steele had Xavier in the mix for an at-large bid every year there was an NCAA tournament. If a couple of things had gone differently on the court, we’d be talking about a big contract extension for him instead. Reasonable differences in outcomes could have us talking now about how Xavier is a machine when it comes to replacing coaches.