I’m not sure I have ever heard someone say GOTT wasn’t an upgrade over Lowe or HWSNBN. Plain and simple he HAS been an upgrade. Making the tournament has been a huge upgrade alone. However, we are just as inconsistent now as we were 3 years ago. Kudos to GOTT for making the schedule more difficult (which can explain some of the inconsistent issues but not all of them). This has also been the big reason we have been on the positive side of the bubble, so again the scheduling is a good thing.
Gott isn’t going anywhere soon so love or hate him we are all going to have to deal with it. It’s simple (too me anyway) he HAS to become more consistent to get past next year. I love beating the Blues (love it) but I hate laying eggs on must win games even more. The latter is the biggest part of being successful for a program year to year. Just because Gott is better than the last two coaches we had is no excuse to free ride to say he doesn’t needs work. In my opinion the bar is low as heck if you are trying to compare what we have to the last two horrid coaches. Compare him to the rest of the league and we have a middle of the pack coach at best right now. All I’m saying is he is better than the last two but still needs work if he is going to stay. That work includes winning the must win games. Seriously all the positives he has brought (schedule, PR, a few big wins, NCAA bubble) won’t mean jack squat in a year if we still loose games like BC and the like. For now the positives mean a lot because they have been absent for a long time. However, at the end of the day being consistent in the ACC to a top 5 (in the ACC) team is what will determine his fate IMHO.
My personal opinion is he IS an upgrade but the shine is starting to wear of quickly. Without a fresh coat of paint next year he is going to have a tough time with DY (BFF’s or not). I’m also not convinced he doesn’t bolt for another job IF we make the tourney and he has a miracle run. Even with that crazy buyout.
