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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 4029582, member: 44"]
You know I am huge admirer of the way KO coached his first two seasons.  I said multiple times that I don't think 2014 Calhoun wins the 2014 natty.  KO was the right guy at the right time.

That said, 2015 on, Kevin was not a good coach here.  In his last year he had checked out by all accounts and the program's trajectory was plummeting downwards.  That is what Hurley inherited.  It is fair to note that.

Hurley has done a masterful job of turning around a team culture that had gone to crap and did so in the poisoned well of KO's lawsuit and his encouraging of vets not to engage with the program.  I wonder a bit about in-game decisions and I don't think that Hurley is done growing as coach, but not acknowledging the train wreck Hurley inherited and his masterful job of rebuilding the culture isn't fair to Hurley.  You can't talk about "Hurley's accomplishments" fairly without acknowledging the state of the program when he got here.
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