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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 2127341, member: 55"] It shouldn't be necessary that KO be an x's and o's genuis to be a good coach. Not with staffs the size of a D-1 program. It would have been fine if Miller was capable of designing the O and D, and communicating it to KO during games. The fact that KO has pushed Miller out tells you that KO didn't think that was working. What Calhoun was far, far greater at than X's and O's was looking at his roster, and then determining how the team was going to play, what the rotation was going to be and what players were going to have what roles. That is an art, not a science. X's and O's is more of a science -- it can be learned. I think the eye for building a team that JC had you are either born with or you are not. My far bigger fear about KO is whether he is good enough at being able to look at all the paints and brushes on the first day of practice, and figure out what the final painting should look like and how you get there. It would be tremendously unfair to say that he probably won't be as good at it as JC, because that implies that anyone would be that good of it and no one was or is (and don't talk about Woodens and Ks who have rosters of McDonalds AAs to create a team from). But I think it is more than fair to ask if KO is ever going to be good enough at it. [/QUOTE]