There’s a notion of “shelf life” for coaches. If he’s not winning league titles, Dana Altman is approaching his.
I’ll never forget the scene after the Ducks won the PAC-12 tourney a few years ago, and Jordan Bell walked past Altman to embrace one of the assistants after the horn sounded. It was obvious the relationship between Altman and Bell was in bad shape.
In the postgame, Altman admitted there was a point early in the season when he didn’t think they would win another game, confessed he rode the team pretty hard… explaining Bell’s brushoff.
Altman has created a high bar for himself. It won’t get any easier next year, that’s for sure.