by bignick33 on Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:10 am
After digesting the news for a few days, the only argument I can think of that makes any of this even plausible is that Spaz and GDF are now inextricably linked. In other words, GDF would have to believe that if Spaz fails now, then he fails too. Rogers as the fall guy after two freaking games is still a bit paranoid for my liking, but I'll grant that it's not logically impossible. Am I correctly understanding the argument of ATL and others for how this could have happened?
On another note, if a move needs to made, it should be made after year three and not year four. If the above theory is valid, then GDF is probably banking on a more talented and experienced (we hope) team in 2012 that faces an easier schedule that would be successful enough to justify year five, six, etc. After four or five years, his ass would no longer be on the line to the degree that it is now (I actually disagree with this line of thinking, because I don't think the higher-ups care about wins and losses; rather that care about the $$ that the program generates, and unless Spaz were to do the impossible for him and win the ACC, I don't see the downward trend of support and lack of excitement reversing). In any event, if a move were made after a failed year four, the rebuild job would be substantially bigger than if were made after this year. While the Skinner situation is not totally apt because he had had a much longer and accomplished tenure at BC than Spaz does, I think that situation was butchered in a few different ways. While Donahue appears to be great hire, he could not have been given a bigger rebuild job. Had the move been made the prior year (or subsequent year, for that matter), then whatever coach would have been hired would have been able to hit the ground running. Instead, we essentially had two consecutive empty recruiting classes. My point is that unless this year is improbably turned around, the coaching change should be made this year and not next so as to minimize the size of the rebuild job. I would hope that this type of long-term thinking, which is been conspicuously absent in BC athletics over the last few years, would be exercised.
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