Amen! He is head coach. He can keep his defensive focus, and influence the defense, but he needs to let Brent Pease earn his paycheck. Right now I think I can coach the Gator offense by handing the QB two post-it notes that read "run the ball, A-gap" and "throw it to Patton or Burton".
Well, that about sums up our collective hopes, at any rate. I say "hopes", rather than "the whole deal", only because we aren't SURE that's the situation (ie. "Pease has the goods, he is just restrained by Muschamp.")--we are assuming it, as the simplest (and frankly most hopeful) explanation given the observable facts. I'm more than willing to join in this call, tho', 'cause it's a quicker, easier doable "fix" than bringing in a new OC and starting THAT process all over again. However, while I think it the reasonable "next step" attitude and response here, it has its own risks--mainly in potentially more wasted time, us waiting around to see this actually happen and then judging the results. How long do we give? At what point do we say, "It's not getting much better...", and will we be any closer to knowing where to place the blame(s)? This is all important, because at that point the question definitely becomes, "Who to fire?!!"
Yeah, I figured you had to be kinda "uncomfortable" with that title -with-your-name-attached at THIS point, Dale (lol)...Don't feel too badly: We've ALL been on this roller-coaster together, going thru' a host of thoughts, feelings and opinions--sometimes in just a few minutes in the course of a single QUARTER, let alone a whole season!
Amazing, really--and by now a "confession", basically: Too bad he couldn't do the professional equivalent of what honorable leaders have done in military societies for centuries: Hari Kari, "falling-on-your-sword", there are so many examples...and, oh yeah, "taking one for the team"? But he won't do it, 'cause it isn't how it works nowadays in college football, where everyone makes the big money, the bigger the better--except of course the young men who actually play the game and upon whom the whole profitable enterprise is based. No, he'll take the money, not the blame, for as long as he is able--THAT is not just the job, but the CODE of the modern "coaching fraternity" of which he is a fortunate beneficiary. And if he IS fired, he'll continue to be paid to sit at home for the remaining length of the contract, unless he is offered another, AND chooses to take it. Yeah, the way "prode and honor" are fostered and rewarded in THIS system, you'd better get the right guy the first time--or at least by the THIRD!
