I'm half the lawyer I was 10 years ago. You get fat and happy and lose the edge. No doubt the money keeps rolling in from all of the investments you made while younger, but if your chips aren't already where they need to be, you are screwed at 50. Same with college basketball. For the most part, the best coaches are in their 50s and 60s IF they have already built it before they became old. From Dean to K to Knight to Roy to Wooden, this was true for all the greats. You start old and you will either die before the payoff comes or you won't be able to stay modern enough. That's a problem that has plagued WF hoops for decades. We are old and fat like Staak, Prosser, Forbes. Great folks. But we've had little chance to build sustainability.
The Odom hire at 47 paid real dividends. Manning was the right age but was horrible for other reasons. Mainly because he was rich and lazy. You need young and hungry and Odom was that.