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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 5368775, member: 6357"] It’s not about being serious or not. It’s the heavy anchor we’ve been carrying around with us since the last years of the JB era. Because of all he did for the program and sustaining success for 40+ years, the powers that be felt they couldn’t fire him. Even when the mediocrity finally gave them the hand to push him out, we had to hire one of his guys or he and his supporters were gonna go scorched earth. We should have conducted a national search for a top proven coach, as many on here argued, but Wildhack didn’t have the stones to go his own way. Unlike Tom Jurich did at Louisville when he fired Crum 25 years ago. Loyalty and trying to keep it in the Cuse family means a lot to many people. But that doesn’t mean we’re not a serious program. It just means the AD didn’t have the stones to anger JB and his BOT supporters or the foresight to see that it’s what needed to be done. [/QUOTE]