What is this organization's obsession with insisting Sullivan is a great coach? It's like they spent too much on a kitchen remodel that looks terrible and secretly know deep down inside, but to anyone who'll listen they'll talk about how much they love the final product.
They genuinely like him for some reason. I don't know what that reason is, because results certainly aren't it. It'd be one thing if JR and Mario were still running the team, but they aren't. Dubas and FSG have received nothing but miserable results from Sullivan. They owe him nothing.
FSG has deep pocketbooks so I can't imagine that his contract is to blame for him staying. I also think he'd get scooped up by some desperate team pretty quickly if he did get fired, and I'm sure FSG and Dubas both know that as well.
So why's he still here? The only answer to that is that FSG/Dubas both like him despite how shit the Pens have been, and that's terrifying.