I Was thinking more the argument that he can’t hire replacements because they won’t trust him as he ditched his coaches. That argument diminishes if he can say it is a multi level problem. Cover.
Such failures do give Manny more cover should he wish to make drastic changes. It isn’t just that he didn’t let the coaches settle in and panicked. Bad record and recruiting failures. Latter being the extra cover.
You just described the Midwest states as a whole. Nobody who doesn’t have to should ever even visit. They don’t call em the fly over states for nothing.