HJS {l Wrote}:Jarmond’s guys have spent the last 6 months saying this is a make-or-break year for Daz. They’ve actually seemed more questioning of football than our terrible BB program. Marty has often talked about needing to constantly improve because standing still can sink a program as much as anything.
Based on that, I think 6-6 ends Daz’s time at BC and they’ll go interim coach for the bowl game. I think 7-6 (ie losing a bowl) likely ends it as well. That said, Dillon is the only player he could’ve lost to asterisk that prediction.
With losses to Purdue and NCS already on the tape as we enter the meat of the schedule, every week will be deciding his fate.
This isn’t a great year to be searching for a coach. While I trust Jarmond more than previous ADs to make a not-purposely-terrible choice, there aren’t any obvious candidates. While that means we won’t be gutted as a fan base for passing on what-we-all-are-convinced-should-be-a-sure-thing, it also means we’ll be underwhelmed by the choice.
I think Jarmond would rather sort out football first, and then worry about basketball, which is a defensible position in that football will always bring in more fans and get more attention than basketball, and you can maybe hope to use a decent football team to get people interested in basketball. Ideally you'd start sorting both out at once, but fixing football first is probably the better choice.
The lack of an obvious choice doesn't bother me so much. It allows Jarmond to go out and make a hire he believes in, for better or worse. But all else equal a coach and an AD on the same page is a good thing to have. I do agree that Daz is on a hotter seat than anyone not paying close attention realizes, and I don't really believe he's capable of working himself out of the jam. By not beating Purdue, Daz really kneecapped himself. Can he get two wins out of FSU/Louisville/Syracuse? Maybe, but I think even that could be stretch, especially if AJ is nursing an injury for most of the season. I would hope 7-6 gets him fired, and anything worse definitely would, and I imagine Jarmond knows this, and is putting together a list now.