If I'm AD right now, I'm telling Shane we'll talk after the climpson game.
After the climpson game, regardless of the outcome, I tell him:
"Shane, you just completed your fifth year as Head Coach here. You're 1-2 in bowl games and missed bowls the other two seasons. Look around the college football landscape and see that those results, actually BETTER results, are costing head coaches their positions and you've lost head-to-head to one of those coaches TWICE the past two seasons.
I understand that you love this program and this state and you want more than anything to bring success and championships here, but so do thousands upon thousands of people who have been spending their money on tickets, on Gamecock apparel, on travel to not only Columbia but to away games as well. As soon as the season was over, they immediately set their eyes on signing day. After signing day they will look towards our spring game. After our spring game they will watch for portal news and wait to watch SEC Media Days. Then they'll be itching for those three weeks of practice in August they'll fill that stadium out there for every home game. Some of them have completed that cycle for deacades and none of them are getting paid $8 million to do so. I am charged with making the best decisions for this university's athletic teams, so I'm going to put this in very clear and concise terms.
First, this Offensive Coordinator hire, really needless to say, is the most important hire you will have made in your career. I suggest you search far and wide for a coordinator who has consistently shown they can operate an offense successfully. We will find the money we need to make that happen.
Second, the time has come for me to address some things about your personal in public. No more sideline interviews like happened in College Station. No more pumping the crowd going in for halftime like happened in College Station. No more wasting precious seconds at the end of the half like happened in College Station. No more mentioning of "horse garbage" on social media and message boards. Neither of those things have an ounce of impact on the game day results of this program, so stop defending every decision you make and stop addressing message board fodder. The lack of success of your three previous offensive coordinator hires is not something you can whisp away by saying they were the right hires at the time. They weren't good hires. Own it and make a better hire. Period.
There's still time to get this right, but I'd be doing everyone at this university and every long-suffering fan of this football program a gigantic disservice if I didn't make it extremely clear to you that the time has grown short.
Now get out of my sight.
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