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I also hope we dont get to a point where coaches are consistently be fired after 1-2 years, but thats because I hope we dont get to a point where we have coaches whose first 1-2 years look like Johnson's. Nice guy, hope things work out well for him, but in a performance driven field, and...

If he ends up in the UFL, he will be one completion away from Mel Kiper spending a whole week talking about how he should be starting in the NFL.

This will be the real test of him. Maybe getting his but kicked without dad around laying out the red carpet will be just what he needs. Maybe he won't be able to handle it. But it seems like he did feed into the circus a little bit, which makes me less sympathetic to him than one of Lavar...

I think it's a combination. When you have elite talent, NFL teams will take you and do some combination of assuming they can work on the weird sideshow baggage and hoping it doesn't become a problem. When you are a good not great college qb like Sanders, there are enough other options in your...

Id agree with this. I feel like we always find a way to shoot ourselves in the foot just enough to be good not great. B seems fair, though definitely closer to an A than a C. But that has nothing to do with how we celebrate beating Rhode Island.

So when coach prime called him a top 5 pick, I didn't realize he meant top 5 rounds

I agree that sports fans sour too quickly on a good but not great coach. Fran is an interesting situation. I think his overall performance was solid for a non blue blood B1G team. He never did bad enough over a long enough stretch to warrant firing, but also had a fairly low ceiling. It is...

I think it's possible his first year. In the portal era, it's possible to put together a successful team quickly, and maybe Medved can bring some nice pieces who know his system with him. Before anyone jumps down my throat, I'm not saying it's a major black mark on his record if he doesn't get...

Maybe the new CSU coach needs to pull out the Fleck improvement graph from a press conference several years ago.

Id consider joining Dinkytown athletes if Coyle did a Fonzi impression at a major public event.

Defending the hire doesn't depend on either (1) arguing that Nedved's performance is better than his record or (2) arguing that a past coach's performance was either not as good as their record or the untestable assertion that they were about to go down hill.

It's a complicated curve. As Pitino once said, "this is high level competitive stuff."

I hope you mean in conference, because winning more than you lose should be a given for a big ten coach with the out of conference schedule.

2 NCAA tourney appearances, at least one trip to the round of 32, at least one winning conference season, at least one trip to the BTT semis, a cumulative B1G record north of 40%. Those aren't all necessarily make or break for me, and certainly exceeding my benchmark on one or more of those...

Went with my A. My usual caveat applies grading a hire at the time of the hire is like the preseason rankings. My final grade on the hire will be at the end of the Medved era when we know how it worked out.