Good job. But still, 2 weeks before the season?
As I heard, the SEC has put out the mandates on the positive coaching alliance stuff and given the kids have been practicing since school came back, I suspect that this coach has not really modified his behavior and because he was on a zero tolerance and his pay was a sunk cost for this year (expires in June)-wham, he was let go.
One other note in the article-the coach referenced an AD Staff person who was his sports direct link for oversight in the Athletic Department that was not at the meeting and the coach was miffed by it, as with all facets of life, all AD's have the good cop/bad cop metaphor where the day to day has to be the good cop and the authority/boss has to be the bad cop. The coach will still get his pay for this year but his contract is over on June 30. He is free to find another role after that date.
This also goes to show those out there that for the non-revenue sports, Athletic Departments do not automatically renew coaches with one year or more left on the contract. I have seen this occur quite regularly for softball, swimming, soccer, tennis, gymnastics, lacrosse and mid-level D1 basketball (the MAAC to be specific). So the theory that coaches must be told before there's one year left so they can recruit is simply a myth. Just like with life, we are all day to day...
