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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 5603153, member: 8594"]
NIL makes it hard to judge anything.  Red hasn’t shown that he’s a good coach, but I’d argue he hasn’t shown he’s a bad coach either; he might be just mediocre right now.

His first season was never going to be a resounding success.  We didn’t have the players and he didn’t have the time or resources to get the players.  That’s a completely free pass.  Also, weirdly, his best results.  Maybe that’s a mark in his favor because it’s not like he inherited much talent on that team; he got out of that team what that team had to give.

Last season was a disaster.  There was a mix of players he wanted and players he was stuck with because we don’t compete well financially (NIL) with a lot of other programs.  Even with our lackluster NIL, he’s gotta do better than 14 wins, though.  Perhaps a better talent evaluator would’ve landed better 3rd or 4th options, who knows.  Money is money.  I don’t recall us having the money to get studs and Red not landing those studs.

This year, he’s been missing the key piece of his team.  Even so, we played Houston to the brink, were very much in the game against Kansas despite the final score, and played a bad half and good half against an obviously very very good, maybe great, Iowa State team.  Beat Tenn, lost to Hofstra.  That’s honestly not as bad as it’s being portrayed.  The NIL guys we have are playing much better than what we saw last year, so there’s evidence he’s gotten better in that area.  In-game coaching doesn’t seem like a plus for Red, but no coach is immune to that criticism.  Fans love playing backseat coach, especially with the advantage of hindsight.

If Donnie Freeman ever comes back, I’ll judge Red more harshly for poor results.
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