That was before. Not so sure that's going to be the case. Phillips is not a North Carolinian, so the Carolina Mafia has less influence (they'll always have some influence) than they did with the previous bozo.
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I agree. People keep saying we are stuck with him until his contract is over but if things get that bad you ditch a coach in the middle of a season just to signal a fresh start and that you are serious about pursuing excellence.
No matter the record, we will still be smart financially and wait to season's end.
Especially when your conference champion had a L vs Western Michigan
Sunk loss fallacy if hanging onto the bitter end destroys the program. Not trying to be dramatic just saying hanging on to save a few bucks could be penny wise and pound foolish if worse comes to worse.
We could not terminate (but also not renew) CGC's contract until it expired and it wouldn't destroy the program. It might knock it down, but a prudent hire at that time (that's kind of been hit or miss) and we'd be back within a recruiting generation.
Is this the new Fire Geoff Collins thread?
Spending $7.5 million for lack of patience is childish. Making the change now or in October is the same expense.
Childish is killing a program just to say you saved money. If it’s bad you don’t want to see the ashes that are left of this program if fans think you resigned them to years of futility and lost revenue just because you stubbornly thought you were saving money.
You repeatedly say that waiting until the end of next season is the death knell of the program. I don't understand where this comes from. There's no way the end of next season versus the middle of next season is going to affect the health of the program.
This has happened before. A team and a fan base become so demoralized that it makes no sense to just go through the motions just to say the coach finished the season. Sometimes, as has happened in other situations, the program needs to demonstrate a reset and you have an assistant finish out the season.
Patience and stubbornness are often conflated by children.
I know we all want wild success. Some are optimistic, some are pessimistic, and some have no hope at all. Personally, if it will save us $3MM to wait from October to December to relieve a coach of his duties, then, by all means, wait. Instead of spending that extra $3MM on someone going out the door, use it to help build something for the next guy coming in. Hell, if I were Stansbury, I might have a conversation with the big boy donors about even letting it ride another year. We're not poor, but we don't have expendable cash to just throw at someone as they're leaving. I'd much rather spend that same capital investing in the group building the future. Just random thoughts on a Monday afternoon.
If we start 1-3 and if we don't look like there is improvement (note I said if and not when), then realistically you have a problem. Yes you save $$ by waiting until the end of the season, but then you are trading cash in the bank for lost value in brand and recruiting opportunity. If you've visibly got a lame duck coach who is getting written up in hot seat watches, then in a lot of situations you've passed that cost/benefit line and you have to make a change.
Sure but it raises the question as to why we fired Bill Lewis with three games left on the schedule. To me the answer is obvious. We wanted to clear the deck to stop the bleeding and so that O’Leary could get a start on figuring out who could play the following year and what our recruiting needs would be. Regardless of how the Lewis contract was structured (IT DOES’NT MATTER) money was saved in the long run by saving the program.
If the company you own stock in is going under it isn’t patience to ride that stock all the way to the bottom.
If the stock is going down while earnings and cash flow are improving, I would look for changing fundamentals or manipulation and buy puts to cover my position.
What was his contract situation? And I am pretty sure that our debt in ‘94 was not like it is now