<span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; FONT: 13px Arial; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(77,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; FONT: 13px Arial; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(77,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0" class="Apple-style-span">I was struck by some comments about the very good FB coach, Houston Nutt during the game. The announcers said Austin was impressed by how well Nutt was at bringing people together, unifying them, finding common ground...he did not come in and tear down, find fault first, focus on the negtive and try to then rebuild from scratch. He found the good then I'm sure identified the "needs" and more quietly worked on those after getting the buy-ins he needed.
Were the characters coach O recruited so much better people than those coach JWS had recruited? CC took an entirely different approach to rebuilding. His approach isn't the only way, but it is what he thought was needed, and even he knew and warned that approach would take awhile. But it has taken longer than even he anticipated. There's no way he thought we'd be as bad as we were today 5 years in--maybe, maybe year one, maybe year two, but not 5 years in. CC has some serious thinking, figuring and changing to do.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
Many years ago I hired a manager who came in and determined his staff were a problem. He let that be known and there was a lot of negative friction and he failed. The replacement came in and with the same staff came to me a week or so in (and not having been told the history) and told me he'd been watching his staff and most were good but he wanted to advise me he'd need to work on a couple who were negative influences including possibly having to replace them. That manager succeeded without the major revamping.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
Interestingly, your approach is more like that 2nd manager--less radical. But CC's inititial approach came off more like the manager who failed--at least that's the perception he created.</span></span>