JesuitIvy {l Wrote}:If Daz isn't gone I'll be surprised - why did all the rumors explode out after the ND loss then? It can be just wishful thinking, otherwise we'd have these rumors every year the last few years.
My take: Jarmond told Daz he was out after ND, but that it wasn't Marty's decision (true or not) and they thank him and want him to succeed b/c (in all fairness) he did run a clean program that for the most part garnered BC decent press (Gameday etc) and really rebuilt stabilized it from the death rattle we started to hear under Spaz.
That would explain: Daz shaving his 'stache (big life change/losing what will prob be his best gig), the Rutgers rumors (Jarmond giving his blessing for a positive exit), the high-five and good feeling after y'day's win and Daz saying it was his best coaching job (b/c he's a goner and Jarmond is playing the part of reluctant messenger).
And really, after Spaz I think we can say Daz was mostly the coach we wanted/needed, but for the W-L and competitiveness in big games, which of course, is why he's the best paid person at BC and why he needs to go now.
There is so much more fundamentally wrong with Daz's management; the W-L and big game competitive were just symptoms of his incompetent program management. In seven years:
-He has been incapable of recruiting a QB; it my own feeling part of this is because he sees a QB as the guy who simply hands off to guys who tote the rock. Recruits likely see that writing on the wall and look elsewhere. Notable that a fifth year transfer who fell in his lap was his best QB in 7 years.
- Program management requires sufficient vision to anticipate your needs/weaknesses and go out and fill those voids. His allowing the defense to completely decompose like it did this year was a simple indictment of his lack of vision. He squandered what was arguably his best offensive team he's had here. Of course his excuse is that all that talent left (but he ignores the fact that he had no seviceable replacements in the pipeline). That is an excuse for a first or second year coach, not the guy in year 7.
- And, of course there is the factor of continuity and stability; the HC has been the only continuity in the coaching staff over these 7 years. That revolving door has to impact players as different coaches inevitably come in with different ways of doing things, teaching things, etc...
I could go on....summarized simply, after 7 years, from one year to the next, one is hard pressed to formulate reasonable expectations of what might happen year to year, because the program's foundation is forever shifting.
