I still have faith he is going to be gone.
But, did anyone do the research on the power 5 coaches with the worst records after 4-5 years to still be retained? I would love to see those numbers. His retention could be unprecedented.
Danny is 0.433.
I went through the last two coaches at all of the P6 programs to identify coaches with a record below 0.45 after 5 years, here's what I came-up with:
-Pat Chambers: 0.441 at Penn State
-Ed DeChellis: 0.383 at Penn State
-Scott Drew: 0.416 at Baylor
-Ernie Kent: 0.372 at Washington State
-Steve Robinson: 0.427 at Florida State
-John MacLeod: 0.441 at Notre Dame
-Jim Christian: 0.383 at Boston College
-Oliver Purnell: 0.340 at DePaul
Out of these 8, actually it looks like only Steve Robinson, Ernie Kent, and Oliver Purnell were fired after year 5 (TBD on Jim Christian but no smoke there).
In years 6-8, Pat Chambers has gone 0.529 while winning an NIT title. Presumably, he will be fired next year without a NCAAT appearance (although I think everyone said that about this year too). In years 6-8, Ed DeChellis went 0.553 while winning an NIT title and making the NCAAT before leaving for Navy. In years 6-16, Scott Drew has gone 0.670 while missing the post season once. In years 6-8, John MacLeod went 0.494 with one NIT appearance before getting fired.
In short, only one of the coaches kept past the initial bad 5 years was actually successful by any reasonable metric - Scott Drew. Thing is Drew's program actually got better years 3 through 5 and even made the tournament in year 5. He probably wouldn't even be on the list except they didn't play an OOC in year 3 due to NCAA sanctions. Furthermore, even the two Penn State guys were trending up after two bad years to start off their tenures. In comparison, this year was Manning's worst by most metrics.