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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2461742, member: 1526"] If this season goes completely down the tubes, I'll be right there with the "Fire Ollie!" crowd at the end of the season, pitchfork in hand. The problem I see is where the heck is the 12 million $$$ buyout coming from? Even if you find another coach, we don't exactly have 12 million lying around somewhere. I'm afraid that AD Dave is stuck between a rock and a hard place. He apparently orchestrated some largely cosmetic assistant coach reshuffling during the last off season, which so far has resulted in zero improvement in any areas, as far as I can see. Getting rid of the albatross that was Bobby Fiasco only cost 3.4 million, and we got a bargain on the other end because Randy Edsall is still the highest paid state employee in Maryland. The net cost long term therefore became almost negligible. We aren't going to have that luxury again, unless we can find a fired coach who's riding high on a recent buyout as well. But that begs this question: if he was fired then somebody else thinks there's something wrong with him. Otherwise, you have to pay big bucks to attract the kind of coach who's going to somehow miraculously turn around a complete snowshow. Those coaches don't exactly grow on trees, but if you get lucky there are a few of them out there. The trick will be picking the right one. So you're likely going to be paying long term on both ends. I'm not sure it's going to be economically possible, regardless of how much AD Dave might think it has to be done. Maybe he can work another monetary miracle, but this one is going to be much tougher to pull off. As for fans berating the players at games, these are college kids who don't deserve that. They make a major time and physical sacrifice to play collegiate sports. Coaches are fair game, but if you're out there screaming at and berating the coach, it's obviously going to have a negative impact on the players as well if they're hearing that from the fans. If you go to pro sports events, the coaches and players are all fair game because they're professionals and you're helping to pay their salaries by attending games. Scream at them all you want. [/QUOTE]

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