Post by lmills72 on Dec 19, 2020 18:58:57 GMT -6
So with what happened last night and what still might happen this year, Mike Neu is not going anywhere for the next 5-10 years, unless HE chooses to go.
In five years he has taken a football program that won 1 MAC game in its first 2 years and has now won a MAC title. As long as he conducts himself as we all suspect he would, and as long as his teams remain competitive, nobody will be asking him to leave for a decade or so.
But now that Neu has had that success, does that change the lens through which Whitford is viewed? To begin with we no longer have to worry about buying out our two highest-paid coaches at the same time. If I remember correctly, Whitford is signed through the 21-22 season, which means there would be one year to buy out if he's fired at the end of this season.
Will tying for a MAC West title (or whatever the equivalent of that might be now that the divisions have disappeared) be good enough? Neu has just proven that it's not out of line to expect more. He's far from a perfect coach, but he has faced just about every adversity that Whitford has faced and more and has led his team to victory.
If, as I suspect, Whitford leads the basketball team to another upper-middle-of-the-pack finish, but really doesn't sniff a MAC title, will Goetz make the decision to terminate?
In five years he has taken a football program that won 1 MAC game in its first 2 years and has now won a MAC title. As long as he conducts himself as we all suspect he would, and as long as his teams remain competitive, nobody will be asking him to leave for a decade or so.
But now that Neu has had that success, does that change the lens through which Whitford is viewed? To begin with we no longer have to worry about buying out our two highest-paid coaches at the same time. If I remember correctly, Whitford is signed through the 21-22 season, which means there would be one year to buy out if he's fired at the end of this season.
Will tying for a MAC West title (or whatever the equivalent of that might be now that the divisions have disappeared) be good enough? Neu has just proven that it's not out of line to expect more. He's far from a perfect coach, but he has faced just about every adversity that Whitford has faced and more and has led his team to victory.
If, as I suspect, Whitford leads the basketball team to another upper-middle-of-the-pack finish, but really doesn't sniff a MAC title, will Goetz make the decision to terminate?
