At this point, we need to be thinking about two things: 1. How to showcase our young talent for a new HC and recruits, and 2. How to generate hope and promise for the future and avoid colossal embarrassment.
Manny's dead - just hanging on by the ventilator machine, but they will pull the plug soon. No coach - absolutely none - can survive having his program reamed on national TV the way Herbstreit blasted him. You can't come back from that.
So now it's about showcasing our young talent (and there is plenty to work with) and generating some good buzz for the future with a new HC. We want the media talking about how it would be a gold mine for a good HC to walk into Hecht and lead the young talent we've got. And we want recruits to see it too. Which means we need to have a good showing down the stretch but NOT with Manny still running the show. We don't want it to look like the players are rallying around him. And most importantly, we've got to beat FSU to show that we will turn things around faster than they will.
And the only way to do that is to promote one of TRob or Jess to interim HC with the clear understanding that they will NOT be considered for the HC position but they can use this opportunity to showcase their coaching ability and raise their stock. The players need a new voice. They need to be inspired.
Get rid of Manny now so we can be in a much better position overall heading into 2022 under a new HC who knows how to build a winning P5 program from Day 1.