Quote Originally Posted by Cooterpoot View Post
Would Walton be my choice? No. But with a coach on the hot seat, we made the decision not to fire him and overpay an assistant. We screwed up keeping Lemonis. That's the bottom line. But AD and money guys did this. Let them pay for the buyouts. We basically will have the same staff even if we fire Lemonis next year. Good luck finding a good coach. Just weak leadership.
We're not going to fire Lemonis and force the next coach to keep the assistants.

Even Larry Templeton didn't expect that to happen with new coaches.