That the Admin does not fire *** after the season. This despite a mountain of indefensible empirical evidence and a long term track record of utter failure against any quality competition.
I fully expect BOT and Fake James to do nothing. They will inevitably be pressed about a lack of action, and they will hide behind the financial difficulties of the contract relative to the athletic budget.
Nothing will change until the day this admin makes a commitment to championship football. In other words...we are done.
I beg to differ... Al's contract/buy-out are a sunk cost. We're on the hook for a tidy sum regardless.
If youre the admin & BOT, and you see the body of work that is Golden & Dorito-- it isn't "trending-up." No amount of spin can overcome this train wreck we're watching. If we end up 5-7 or 6-6, AND LOOK BAD doing so (
which we will on at least 2-3 occasions in this final stretch), I think they'll have to act. We're obligated to pay him-- so why would we pay him to stay (
when its obvious he isn't up to the job) when we can pay his the same sum to go?
Yes, there are the associated costs with paying 2 coaches at once, I get that. But when you make a poor biz decision, you don't just sit there and live with it, and you don't compound the damage, you do everything in your power to extricate yourself from it. To do otherwise only exacerbates the problem.
As much as everyone wants to downplay the importance of the football program to this "newly-minted" academic institution-- there are practical realities involved. Where they could stand pat at an 8-4 or 9-3 season, they probably aren't inclined to do so for 5-7 record in the 4th year. Not after the previous 3 years.
They will be compelled to move on this-- the PR & media scrutiny will tarnish the university too much. No one wants to that for another year.