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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4444333, member: 40"]
You're dismissing the trend too easily, given the magnitude of the decline, IMO.  I also don't agree that the line of demarcation for a successful vs. unsuccessful season should be getting our head above .500 , which lowers the bar to an unacceptable degree of tolerated performance.

Information like this should inform what happens next, if the season unfolds the way I expect it to.  This isn't "canning" someone as a knee jerk reaction to one subpar season, it's coaxing an 80 year old man who's holding the program hostage to move along so that the program can seek to recover.

JB probably should have been "canned" after the program was put on probation for the second time under his jurisdiction.  When you combine that with him reneging on the documented succession plan, and the program being on the decline for an extended period of time rapidly approach a decade, culminating in a losing season last year, his ability to have full autonomy over how things unfold from this point forward should be at an end.

At some point, JB will be out of rope.  I'm guessing that will happen if we have a second consecutive losing season.

Will he be canned outright?  Doubtful -- but I'm guessing that the AD will push him out, allowing him to save face by "retiring."

My fear is that JB won't move on, making things even uglier and necessitating more direct pressure.
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