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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 4469091, member: 966"] I think it would be unfair to use a Red/GMac mid-year “interim“ succession as a test or audition. They‘d be stuck with the current roster, the current system, and a team already beaten down and weary and heading into an even more difficult schedule. You only do a mid season change if you‘ve already decided on one of them. And you’re going to give them time. I think JB retires at the end of the season. He may have believed he had one or two more, but this is going so badly that the ’plan’ may have been accelerated, either by JB himself or JW. JB has ego/pride, but as much as he’d want to be defiant and reject the noise and the criticisms of the diminutive, that same ego and pride is being eroded by time and facts. How much does it hurt him to lose more than he wins… in multiple seasons? He might believe our age and inexperience will turn around with time, but if he weathers the season, how many will he lose to transfers out, because of playing time, recognition that he’s not operating at HoF levels, and general dissatisfaction with our results. Then, he’d have to reload, from the portal which requires effort and salesmanship. And we don’t have much to sell. Barring a complete 180 by the team in development—possible—I think he ends it after this season, with a nice compensation package, and learns to tie fishing flies. Maybe he spends the other half of his time traveling with the ever lovely Juli to Buddy and Jr’s pro games. That sounds like a hell of a deal. This is it, though. As much as I’ve not been a JB fan, I still have enough respect for the accomplishments that if he doesn‘t do [I]another[/I] year, I can get over the past handful. But, if he is allowed 23-24, I’m gonna be super pissed, and sentiments move into the ‘irrevocable’ stage. [/QUOTE]

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