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[QUOTE="miamicuse, post: 3754174, member: 7237"]
Nice analysis.

It would probably be too much work, but I would be curious to compare the winning percentages of the long time coaches' last X year vs his corresponding successors.

I am assuming most coaches toward the end of their tenures experienced a decline in their winning percentages.  Not sure what X should be 3,4,5,6,7 years.  The long time coaches' overall winning percentages may not tell the full story.

The current fans who want changes want to get out of the current stagnation and seemingly perpetual mediocrity, so it the wins back ten, twenty years ago, are no longer relevant (based on the argument that our coach has evolved and not the same coach with the same intensity), so a comparison to the tail end of a long tenure seems to reflect the short to medium term contrast between the coach and his successor.  You could also make the argument that most successors were not given enough time to prove themselves - the predecessor had 40 years to make his mark, the successor had two.
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