Yahoo: Minnesota fires Tubby Smith, gambling that it can find someone better

[BleedGopher]

per Yahoo:

For the past few years, Tubby Smith's Minnesota tenure has inspired two schools of thought.

Some have argued the Gophers can do better than a coach whose teams consistently start strong only to fade to the NCAA tournament bubble or off it every February. Others have insisted a program with modest tradition like Minnesota is lucky to have a coach who is annually in NCAA tournament contention at all.

We'll soon find out who's right because Minnesota has apparently decided to part ways with Smith and go in a new direction. First-year athletic director Norwood Teague fired Smith on Monday afternoon in the wake of the Gophers' second-round NCAA tournament loss to Florida the previous day.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab...gambling-someone-better-185932181--ncaab.html

Go Gophers!!

 

[bassy123]

i don't think gamble is the right word.

 

[joshvanklomp]

National pundits seem to gloss over the fact that Tubby hasn't had a single B1G season over .500

 

[Bad Gopher]

I remember a few people posting that exactly this was going to be the perception, namely that "even Tubby Smith couldn't win here" and that this is about as well as anyone can do here. So no matter whether we retained him or dismissed him, the damage has been done by Smith's underperformance.