Take it back!

Well, Billy Donovan wants out of his deal with the Orlando Magic. Donovan will be the second coach this summer to take a new job, go to bed, wake up and want out.

Remember the Arkansas debacle? Creighton coach Dana Altman decided, after taking a five-year offer to leave Nebraska for Fayetteville, that he did not want to coach the Razorbacks. He returned to Creighton the next day.

It's deja vu all over again. But the stakes are much, much higher. This is the NBA. This isn't some Missouri Valley coach freaking out over taking an SEC job. This is a two-time NCAA champ freaking out over taking -- as Bill Simmons would say -- The Leap.

There's nothing left in college hoops for Donovan. He has two titles. He had an entire starting lineup enter the NBA Draft, and four of them are top-10 picks. The NBA would be a new challenge.

But with the new challenge comes a changed role. He wouldn't be in charge of personnel decisions -- he'd only have a say in them. He'd be an opinion in a discussion on free agents and draft picks. He wouldn't literally extend his hand and guarantee a spot on his roster. Not in the NBA. That's what the execs are for. They make the big money.

So that would leave Donovan in a simpler role. All he'd have to do is coach. Just coach. No personnel. No recruiting swings. No text messaging recruits. No e-mailing boosters. None of that. Just coaching.

And NBA players don't need as much teaching. Donovan would basically be handling personalities and deciding how many times Dwight Howard touches the ball.

That might be too boring. But it doesn't change my previous post. It doesn't change VCU coach Anthony Grant's imminent arrival as Florida's Next Coach. It's just a matter of when. And whether or not Donovan can live with his decision to move on.

This one's a mulligan.