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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1552387, member: 289"] The Coyle decision is an awfully tough one. - We have a competitive team that just doesn't quite know how to win and is being held back by inexperience and questionable coaching decisions, (of the sort a lot of coaches make). We need the freshmen and sophomores to become juniors and seniors, (bigger, faster, more confident and with a better knowledge of how to play the game), and to be joined by two more good recruiting classes who will become the freshmen and sophomores who will have the opportunity to play behind them and move into the line-up when they are truly ready. A sudden coaching change could interrupt the flow of talent and isolate this good group of young players, putting us in a vicious cycle of never having enough talent and having to constantly rebuild, rather than reload. And with all the top jobs open this year, whoever he gets to replace Shafer is more likely to be the next Scott Shafer than the next Urban Meyer. - But as a new AD, he may want his own man in, (since he can't do it in basketball). He really has three choices: fire Shafer and give another guy a new contract for several years so he can recruit. He can keep Shafer for the last year of his contract and see how it works out. But can a lame duck coach recruit? Or he can extend Shafer's contract so he can continue the good recruiting. But then he's stuck with Shafer, who might not be [I]the [/I]guy and isn't [I]his[/I] guy for several more years. Meanwhile the loses are piling up and the fan base is deserting the team, (not that they ever adequately supported them), and recruits have to be wondering if they want to come an play for a losing team, (maybe they do: they can get to play sooner). And who knows, maybe the next Urban Meyer [I]is [/I]out there somewhere. We all have our opinions. The only one that counts is Coyle's. The only opinion we all share is that we hope he makes the right one. [/QUOTE]

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