Well, first of all, you have to discuss the level of employee we're talking about. There would be no delay in firing a deadwood McDonalds employee who's busing tables. But there would be some delay, albeit a slight one, before firing the manager of a particular McDonald's franchise while arranging for the replacement.
I think you're overstating my case for patience. I'm not necessarily saying not to fire Flood at the end of the season (although I think RU is most likely not to do so, but we'll see). What I'm saying is that too many people are too focused on the firing (judging by the posts about it) and not focused enough on the hiring.
Actually, if we ARE going to fire him at the end of the year anyway, firing him now might actually give us a tiny bit of an advantage in obtaining a good replacement (get out ahead of the competition). Although that's kind of iffy; so I don't place much faith in that theory.
Correct. And I'm not suggesting that we wait to line up an actual coach. I'm suggesting that we consider the hiring landscape carefully before we act. I don't believe that being deliberate at this point in time has as much potential for harming the football program as the potential for harm in leaping into a coaching search when the hiring deck is substantially stacked against us.
USC can get away with firing in the middle of the season because when it comes time to hire, they will be among the first to pick.
I don't think I've said that we should have an actual named candidate waiting in the wings to act. I'm saying that (a) I don't just want to hire another wishful thinking coach if that's all we think we can get, (b) my understanding of the hiring market is that it's not going to be employer-friendly this off-season and RU may not be attractive enough to compete for the better prospects, and (c) I don't personally see Flood staying as leading to 5 digit reduction in season ticket sales.
I agree to a point with what you (and Hudson) are saying. Perhaps my thinking on this is too colored by the degree of success I've had being patient about things when I didn't really want to be patient. In other words, perhaps I'm projecting my luck in such things onto this situation. I'll think more about it.
Ha! It would be far more interesting to discuss those few occasions where my patience has not (yet) paid off. For example, despite my great patience so far, Olivia Wilde has not yet managed to fall into my lap and subsequently fall in love with me (as no doubt she would).
The one, and maybe only, advantage to my way of thinking vis-a-vis patience is that no matter when we fire Flood and who we hire to replace him, the odds (and stats) make it pretty likely that I'll find myself in a position of being able to say "I told you so" in 4-5 years, even though it'll be complete ******** at that point.
Actually this year is so far below the norm. Going back to 2001 usually there are about 11-13 P5 openings with 17 being the high once and 4 being the low twice. The last couple years were on the lower end with 7 P5 openings each year. So far this year I think we had 9 but now one is filled with Minnesota hiring their DC. Still though even with that we are anywhere from 2-4 below the norm but that could change at the end of the year. I think it's possible for there to be towards the high end of P5 openings maybe around 14.
2015- Washington 1-3 at home against P5; WSU 3-1 on road against P5, but they suck because they lost to Portland State
I don't think there is. The vast majority of candidates have jobs so you can't hire them before the season is over anyway.
Yup and then we can hire Nick Saban after he fails with the Colts. He'll be in his 70s but what the hell. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:I say give a full decade and let's see where we're at.
So... did your head explode?
