TomBear said:
Supposedly Saban was consulted. RR is no dummy. He knows football and it's personnel far better than any of us .
Tosh is our head coach now. Digging up negatives about his past is futile and non-productive.
Furthermore, it's been 8 years. Are you the same, professionally, that you were 8 years ago? Or did you gain some experience and some wisdom in the time that elapsed?
We're all frustrated and maybe even angry. But to be honest, this kind of post doesn't do anything positive. (I fully recognize it's not the responsibility of social media to "be positive". But sometimes I think people get caught up in "piling on" when it has no benefit.)
We didn't have the luxury of getting a coach who learned on the way. We know coaching decisions are crucial to the one-score games that surely we needed to win this year ... But decided on this dude because of his charisma and optimism.
The post is helpful in that islt keeps pointing out that coaching is super important. Much more so than talent alone (see UCLA, see Wake Forest). You win a game or two that you should have no business winning along with the games you should always win. When you don't do either, you need to be canned immediately. We don't have the luxury of time.
And by canned. I realize he cannot be fired right now. We can strip him of play-calling and just focus on recruiting operations while he learns on the job. Get some competent coordinators and lose that pathetic o-line coach and we wouldn't have needed Tosh's 5* and 4* recruits to get to to 9 wins this year. Let us not make the same mistake in 2027. Coaching is of most importance! We can do more with less.
