PhDeac
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With all due respect to Andy Katz, it seems pretty rare that a coach gets fired and the media community expresses their full support of the firing.
Honestly, I think it's partially due to the fact that columnists like Andy Katz are not close enough to the situation. They have to cover 100+ teams and they simply can't be engaged enough to fully understand the dynamics of each school's situation. They seem to look at the overall record and how the team did in the postseason and that's about it -- no effort to explore the subtext.
Firing Dino made sense if you REALLY watched Wake Forest play basketball during his 3 years, yet plenty of media folks acted with complete surprise. They pointed to the 61-31 or whatever and that was the entire basis for their opinion. Similarly, firing Hewitt makes sense if you have REALLY followed GT, yet you have Katz arguing that it is crazy.
Again, I don't necessarily blame these media guys, but they're awfully predictable when it comes to this stuff.
Good post. Considering those guys do what we do for fun as a full-time job, they don't do it nearly well enough.