Perhaps, but they're all still valuable. You only get 9 people who can recruit for your team. Your position coaches are spending more individual time with the players (outside of possibly the S&C staff) and doing more small-group football skills teaching than anyone. They all get paid comfortably into six figures. They're all valuable and none can be given away because of public sentiment or earning goodwill with the fanbase. I empathize with Mike Sherels' story and it really sucks that his health problems are happening to anyone (let alone someone so young and with young kids), but Fleck has to hire the best person for the position and not let other factors weigh into it whatsoever. If he determines that that person happens to be Mike Sherels, wonderful, but it has to be for football reasons and nothing else. There are a lot of other people with health problems who bleed maroon and gold, but none of them are going to be position coaches for the Gopher football team.