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I actually was talking to a friend about this earlier in the year. We both agree that it's actually okay in college sports for coaches to get shafted for lack of success. The reason is because of the revolving door of players. Sometimes you have a great team and that's the team that should go all the way (like maybe Kansas this year), so if that team doesn't live up to expectations, then the coach takes the fall.
What we also agreed upon is that it makes no sense for a bad team to fire their coach. Maybe someone else has a different perspective, but our thinking is, if expectations are not that high, what is another coach going to do for you?
So the Beavers fire one coach in hopes of igniting the team or something, but it backfires. Now you've got one coach on unemployment and a team looking no different now than they were at season's start.
I'm a Beaver fan, but do not avidly follow the program, so I do not know if expectations were higher, but from all I'd read, they weren't, so firing the coach mid-stream made absolutely no sense to me.
And if a guy like Lavin went to oregon state, I'd be surprised, but maybe reviving their program is what a guy like that needs. Obviously his knowledge spewing out of his mouth on tv isn't enough to lure. I dunno.
Bobby Knight? Rod Strickland's an assistant for Memphis, maybe he'd want to coach the Beaves. That might be cool. Maurice Lucas? His boy played. Maybe Gary Payton (I don't think he's in the NBA anymore); not sure he's head coaching material, but it's his team.
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