Mine changed to end of season. Won't be super POed if he gets next year (which is where I voted last time) but as much as I like him and really want him to succeed, I just don't see it anymore.
Post-Kansas: Would You Fire Paul Rhoads?
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Bobby La Gesse @BobbyLaGesse
Lots of dejected looks on folks coming out of the ISU locker room. Rohach said he doesn't know how it could feel much worse.
Lots of dejected looks on folks coming out of the ISU locker room. Rohach said he doesn't know how it could feel much worse.
I think he should be fired because this is a big business and he deserves about 40k per year right now the way the team is performing and not 2 million. Not sure if JP can afford not to fire him at this point. But if fans keep showing up like crazy, he might just keep him around.
The other question that probably should be asked is..... does anyone feel it will matter next year if he is fired?
Also... if we're going to just promote Mangino to head coach, then I'd rather just keep Rhoads. If we're going to clean house, let's clean house. I want all new everything. Mangino has been a HUGE (pardon the pun) disappointment right along with Wally and Rhoads IMO.
The other question that probably should be asked is..... does anyone feel it will matter next year if he is fired?
Also... if we're going to just promote Mangino to head coach, then I'd rather just keep Rhoads. If we're going to clean house, let's clean house. I want all new everything. Mangino has been a HUGE (pardon the pun) disappointment right along with Wally and Rhoads IMO.
This is the key issue.
It sucks to get whipped by KU, but we are young and injured. The problem is, what do we have to go on that suggests a majority of players get better as they get older? The offense has been a stagnant turd for almost 6 years. Mangino and Co? If so, why not just hire him as head coach? It is clear just how inept the staff was on that side of the ball. Of course, it does not help our OL thought they "had this" while getting bent over every week.
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I don't think it will matter next year or may years after that. With the current set up of our conference affiliation coupled with decades of futility I'm pretty sure we're not ever going to be "good". Unless some kind of local boy-turned player-turned alumni-turned coaching Wunderkind comes down the pipe of course.
Does it matter? When things are this bad you MUST make changes. The next hire doesn't have to be a home run. Just has to stop the bleeding a bit.
Anyone would probably be better. Hell, why not the 7th grade assistant coach at Roland Story Middle School? He might be able to teach fundamentals to this team at least.
This. I have not been impressed with any of the players that have had to come in due to injury except for Lazard, who didn't really have to be developed because he was a stud coming in. How can you not have players at this level so overmatched? It blows my mind.
Almost anyone. Hire a decent FCS coach for 200k, spend some of the savings on better assistants, and give the rest to the MBB program.
Didn't KU just beat Rhoads with a coach nobody outside of Lawrence has ever heard of before?
Whos a disgraced coach, who won games, who could make a comeback. Tressel is the only one I can think of. But are there others I'm forgetting?
You're right. Jamie should just give him a lifetime contract and when he dies, they should just fold up the program because, like you said, who are they going to get?
A lot of people might laugh at this, but seriously, can some FCS coach do any worse? Jim Harbaugh was at San Diego not that long ago.... not San Diego State.
Heck, you could offer someone 500k per year and still be 1.5 million less than what Rhoads makes.
