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[QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2731845, member: 488"]
I'm fine with the narrative that KO mailed it in and left his players to drown, but I feel like we can't have it both ways where he's a quitter [I]and [/I]incompetent [I]and [/I]overmatched, especially if we're going to label his championship a fluke and scoff at the idea that he'll ever land on his feet again.

Many seem to believe that all of those things are applicable in assessing what went wrong here, which has never made sense to me even as somebody who was pretty shocked by the level of ineptitude he saw these last couple years.

The reason it's important to clarify these things isn't to exonerate KO so much as it is to shed some context on why so many people - myself included - may have been duped along the way.  Some want to walk their second guessing all the way back to his hiring, which, while it was a fair opinion to have at the time, strikes me as petty given how things played out.  The whole "see I told you, unqualified players never work out as coaches!" crew can get all the way out of here with their backpatting.
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