shogun6066
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Soooooooooooooooooooooooo...I haven't been in a hurry to fire Manning like so many are. On a sports radio show today heard a discussion about the massive rebellion brewing in Tallahassee about Willie Taggart's failure to show any signs of a turnaround in FSU football. And my first reaction was, yea it was a bad hire, get rid of him. The same thing happened to Miami football hiring MarK Richt. Then I paused and wondered if I could have made those decisions. Nah, at least not well. It's very easy to critique from afar and very hard to decide to cut the cord on a major hire like those, or WFU basketball, without any guarantees of a solution. That's the problem. No guarantees. I'm definitely leaning toward replacing Manning if there aren't any signs of real change in our program this season. 5 years should be enough to establish a positive direction. But I'm not at all convinced that any of the replacement names that have ever shown up in our board discussions are guarantees of greater success. I think we suffer from many obstacles in addition to "poor coaching". Our best run of recruiting under Skip Prosser never produced more than a couple of ACC regular season successes. We should be careful to remember that aside from UNC, Duke, and UVA of the last 6-8 years no team in the ACC has sustained success. You can argue about FSU, Miami and VT having some improvement, but VT and Miami were blips based on recruiting, and FSU has taken well over a decade to get to their level. Somehow we've got to establish some level of stability that we can build on. It's not easy to achieve, let alone maintain, a high success level in any Power 5 major sport. Ask the SC Trojans, ND football, Michigan football, Syracuse basketball, Md basketball, Arizona basketball, UCLA basketball, Texas football, Tennessee football, and many more. Fire 'em and then hire 'em doesn't guarantee anything even if you have a pedigree.
your take is that, because success is not a given in any situation, there's no reason to ever fire a shit coach because a successful replacement isn't guaranteed to be hired so no one should bother.
Because that's what your text wall leaves one concluding.
And that's definitely not a successful conclusion.