Grey do you think DD will get fired if he only wins 6 wins in regular season? How about 7?
DO you think he should be fired at either one of those totals?
Unlike some I don’t think a coach should be fired as punishment for not winning an arbitrary number of games so I won’t be making that call until after the season. After the season I hope Debbie Yow will decide with the chancellor what is best for the football program and the university and not what some big donor or even a general consensus thinks she should do. She’ll take the heat for the decision should it be unpopular but that goes with the job.
TOB, for instance, wasn’t fired because of the season he had in 2012, but for a lack of quality depth to replace the 22 seniors who graduated including Mike Glennon, continued fall-off in recruiting, and for having the general condition of the program to be in disarray. Predictably TOB was going to have the kind of season DD had in 2013. Maybe not quite as bad in the W/L record but a miserable season all the same.
I will say that I hope that the team is successful, not because I like Doeren particularly but because I don’t want a disruption in the growth of the program from a marginally sustainable program to a fully integrated program distinguishable primarily in size from the Big-boy football programs.
I probably shouldn’t say this and it will never happen but I would like to see the coordinators given the responsibility and authority to run the offense, defense and special teams as they see fit to accomplish goals agreed upon by the HC and coordinators.
I’m afraid that Doeren will never be respected on the sidelines. Just like trust in a marriage once respect for the HC on the sidelines is gone, it will likely never return. Actions of a spouse who is not trusted will be viewed with suspicion; decisions that don’t turn out will be assumed to be bad, wrong or dumb-assed.
Right now only a few people who post about football are not fearful that no matter how good things look, nothing is going to turn out well because Doeren is ______(fill in the blank).
So I don’t think it matters whether we win 6, 7, or even 9 or 10 games there will still be a disrespect of Doeren’s sideline abilities and a low-grade clamor for him to be replaced at the first opportunity.
I keep trying to think of a way to keep him as HC and have the sideline coaching be done by a coordinator. The difference in my and most thinking is it would be a huge mistake to fire him because we couldn’t replace him to build and manage what he does the other 99 percent of the time.
