Deacfan2009
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To me, worrying that an otherwise acceptable coach is never going to make the tournament is the same as “marginal improvement over Manning”. I think it’s very likely that the perspective difference is I don’t recognize as many levels of competence between [Danny Manning] and [Never Making the Tournament] as some of you do. To me, those levels just aren’t that far apart. But like I said, I don’t want Forbes fired at this moment. It’s only the middle of the season, and he’s gotten us close enough that I would give him at least another season even if he doesn’t make the tournament this year.
At the end of the day it should not be a surprise when you make a one sentence post saying outright that Forbes is marginally better than Danny Manning (AND that the boards is SOFT on him) that people are going to assume you want him fired. Most reasonable people are going to interpret that as putting him in the same tier as Manning/[Redacted], who we all collectively suffered from sticking around too long.