Have you ever coached? Look at the current state of college athletics. Coaches have no leverage to combat lack of effort, hustle, and all the things you cited. You can X and O all you want, but if your players can't or won't execute, there isn't much you can do...except get new players who will. While I agree with all of the things you think a coach should be able to control, but the reality is something different.
There are teams out there playing as a cohesive unit, the kids execute what the coach demands and hustle. We are not unique. If we lack NIL funds to get good talent, than more NIL will not solve the issue either because all you end up with are divas with better talent if the coach isn't able to develop culture and schemes and get them to play together for the team. Either Red is not able to read people during recruiting or portal honey moon period to know who is not a good fit or he is not able to mold and coach them to play together. It's one or the other.
Actually if we follow your train of thought we should not bother with NIL as all we end up with are prima donnas that do not want to play hard. Further with the product and results those who previously contributed NIL probably are backing away from donating more since it seems Red is unable to maximize the committed NIL.
Look I like Red, I had hope he would be able to right the ship, but as others have stated time and time again, what I am seeing on the floor is not exclusively a lack of time to turn it around, or a lack of NIL to get good talent. It is a lack of scheme, lack of motivation, lack of team, lack of discipline, lack of an offensive or defensive system and a lot of that, in my opinion, is coaching.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it's an easy job, and I do recognize it's a much harder job now than say ten years ago. The coaches do have less leverage when you have kids who are being paid by sponsors and this payment is completely disconnected from the performance on the court. The kids are now receiving checks in six figures or more, at 19 years old they think they do not need to listen to the coaches, and the transfer portal give them more power to bail at the end of the season if they are not happy, all true, but every school is experiencing this and it takes a different kind of coach to survive and excel in this totally different landscape, it doesn't seem Red is made for this.
As far as leverage, the coach still have plenty. He could bench the players, as other coaches do. If all of Red's players are not listening and you can't bench them all than that's on Red too. Even though NIL is not paid by the school, it is still using Red as the middle man and he decides who gets what. So a player who misbehaves know that they may not get paid next year, may be everyone just plans to transfer in one year for this reason.
To me I think Red has failed to develop a system, offensive and defensive and this is what the main issue is. Secondly Red is too nice a person, he is nice to the players and they took advantage. We all cringed when JB used to talk down on a player during pressers but sometimes you do need to lit a fire under someone like "he had the same rebound as a dead man", that's leverage too, you send a message to a player for lack of effort and it gets noticed by his peers and media and shaming sometimes work, not to mention it may cause others to reconsider poaching this kid. When Jason Hart wants to back out of his NLI JB wouldn't let him. I bet Red would have let him go, he is too nice and that may be why the kids are out of control and why he is getting re-UPed so many times during portal negotiations.
I don't know what happens during practices and I don't know if they are scouting opponents prior to games but it looks like the players are not prepared and that's on coaching too.
