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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 5355583, member: 40"]
False -- those were NOT the only two choices.  But those WERE the two choices that the university artificially delimited themselves to.

JB didn't want to go, but he was forced to step down.  The day before that was announced, after we'd lost in the 1st round of the ACCT, JB said in the press conference that he wasn't going to retire, and that HE alone would decide when to walk away -- not the AD, not any university officials.  And the next day, ADJW put out a press release indicating that JB was no longer the head coach.

You keep saying that the fans [and in your post, me in particular] "don't understand." I understand all of what you are outlining -- we did see the same thing with FSU with Bowden hanging on too long.  I disagree with your characterization of Dean Smith -- doesn't seem congruent to analogize that here.

The difference is that those guys were transitioned to competent, qualified coaches.  Jimbo Fisher was the HCIW [kind of like the arrangement we had with Hop], and they executed that agreement.  When Paterno left in disgrace, they went outside of the program to replace him.  Duke is another situation that isn't remotely similar to us -- their icon stepped down, but the program was humming along / recruiting well, and they made a continuity hire to sustain program performance.

Red is going to get another year.  And that choice that the BOT is making is going to result in a backlash from an already apathetic fanbase.  Because actions / choices have consequences.  You reap what you sow.

But that's what all this is -- choices that the university makes, versus having their hands tied across multiple sets of circumstances.  THOSE are what the excuses are being made for.
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