The Lashlee hire allows for some hope that the team will at least be entertaining and not a complete dumpster fire next year. It does not give me hope that we are on track to actually being good again, much less great.
Has Highsmith actually been hired? I just got home from a party so if it’s happened I don’t know the details. The mere fact that this has gone back and forth so many times shows us all just how dysfunctional the structural foundation of this program is.
So, no, I don’t admit that anything I’ve seen over the past weeks give me any hope that this program has anything in its future more exciting than possibly getting over the new lower bar that it just set for itself in the past 24 months.