How quickly we change the narrative. The season before the defections KO was accused of being harsh to his players not detached. The accusation of detachment developed this past season.
A source told me two things. First, while KO tried various things to light a fire under those players who ended up leaving Glen would take the opposite approach. If one coach is telling a player you don’t play unless you push yourself in practice and value playing defense and another implies something else the players will always take the side of the authority who gives them an easier path. The end result was without a united front the players with a poor work ethic resented KO while players like Rodney supported KO.
I thought it was a philosophical difference between two coaches and discounted the second thing the person stated which was that Glen could be underhanded. Outside of this source and Chief I heard nothing else to substantiate that assertion. After reading the accusations in the report I no longer doubt the underhanded nature of GM.
I tried to come up with an explanation as to why Glen supported JC about the need for working hard in practice and valuing defense but not KO and the best explanation I came up was resentment.
So Miller gets fired and last years team is all KO and the "Chill" team. Did they look like they were coached up on defense and working hard in practice. Hurley's assessment was they were soft and out of shape. Vital agreed. But yet you and Chief think it was Miller's resentment that lingered over a team he was not coaching? It was all on KO. Nothing to do with Miller.
KO wanted to run a pro style offense. Not the offense that won him a NC. It did not work. Players did not respond in a positive fashion. They needed to be coached up like Hurley is doing and Adams and Vital agree.
KO wanted "Chill" to get him one and done style players. None of Chill's relationships with any Washington players or recruits panned out. They went to Missouri, Cincinnati or elsewhere.
The team was unwatchable. It lacked effort. There was no defense. And none of that has anything to do with Miller.
In a perfect world KO should have gotten another year due to Gilbert and Diarra's injuries and that Dunham needed a year to get back after his surgeries. But he did not because of the exodus.
KO fired Miller all on his own. Last years results did not show any improvement at all with Miller gone. It was the opposite.
KO was accountable for the team. His blaming Miller was just bad karma and he brought this on himself all by himself.
