You think we are tough on coaches, Tenn just fired their womens BB coach after

[Johnson85]

making the NCAA tourney and losing in the 2nd round.

Does anybody think we're tough on coaches? We had a quick trigger on Arnett, but that was a pretty unique situation for the hiring and firing. We fired Morehead fairly quickly, but if he had just kept players from embarrassing the school on the bowl trip, he'd have kept his job despite wasting one of the most talented teams we ever had and following it up with an underachieving year.

We let Jackie stick around for several years, we gave Croom five years without his side of the ball ever producing, Richard Williams was safe despite the fall off in performance if he had just been more selective about his extra curricular activities, we let Stansbury run his course and kept him on as an employee until his next job, we gave Rick Ray a third year even though his conference win percentage was 19.4% after the first two years; we gave Howland all the time he wanted.

[RockyDog]

Does anybody think we're tough on coaches? We had a quick trigger on Arnett, but that was a pretty unique situation for the hiring and firing. We fired Morehead fairly quickly, but if he had just kept players from embarrassing the school on the bowl trip, he'd have kept his job despite wasting one of the most talented teams we ever had and following it up with an underachieving year.

We let Jackie stick around for several years, we gave Croom five years without his side of the ball ever producing, Richard Williams was safe despite the fall off in performance if he had just been more selective about his extra curricular activities, we let Stansbury run his course and kept him on as an employee until his next job, we gave Rick Ray a third year even though his conference win percentage was 19.4% after the first two years; we gave Howland all the time he wanted.

No, our fan base has this weird mentality that seems like they want to set any successful coach up for lifelong retirement at MSU and that’s not how the world works. They also have this great fear of the “media” and this great backlash that MSU is supposedly going to suffer from with every coaching firing. The truth is the “media” doesn’t give a s h i t one way or another about us.

I mean what firing have we conducted that wasn’t justified? Croom and Ray? Please. Cannizzaro? Justified. Howland? It was time and Jans proved it to be the right move.

We let Jackie go on one or 2 years too long and our lazy ass AD served us up with the worst hiring in the MSU modern era. Thank goodness that Byrne had balls and wasn’t listening to our cowardly decision makers that are scared crapless to piss off the mythical media.

Dan, I believe, was due to fatigue on both sides. He should have stuck it out another year but Loafers got desperate.

Stains? The same thing. It was fatigue and time for him to go. He should have left when he flirted with Clempson and he could have saved himself and his family the embarrassment of being relieved of his duties.