Julia Poe

He has had a very difficult year personally, as well as as a coach.

So, you know, there might be a necessity for just taking a breather in that sense.

Maybe some of the other coaching jobs that are open aren't appealing to him, so he has to take a year.

But I think that one way or another, he's going to be coaching and I would expect him to be coaching in the 26, 27 season.

Just hard for me to imagine kind of an avenue where that does not occur.

Yeah, I'm kind of of two minds of it.

And I think I kind of end up landing somewhere in the middle.

On one hand, Billy Donovan, like I said, is very well respected.

He's an excellent player development coach.

Very few people around the league would disagree with that.

I think a lot of executives who would be interested in a job like this would also be interested in working with Billy Donovan as a coach.

So I think that sometimes that can be played up a little bit too much.

On the other hand,

I have a hard time imagining any truly top level elite executive worth their salt who would be comfortable being told, hey, you know the biggest decision that you can make as an executive?

We're taking that away from you.

I don't think that that is how these really top level, and I'm talking like cream of the crop executives operate.

And I would worry with the issues that the Bulls have had with passivity and with a lack of kind of that decisiveness over the years.

I would really worry if a new hire comes in and is content to take the backseat on that decision.

Even if at the end of the day, they're like, yeah, I would work with Billy.

I'm fine doing that.