That’s reasonable. The BIG seems to have four tiers this year. A few elite teams, a few solid tournament teams that are substantially better than Ohio State, Ohio State (and maybe a couple of teams with them) and then absolute garbage that’s substantially worse than Ohio State.
Where I think you and I may differ is that I think that a better coach could get these guys to play both harder and smarter and that they have sufficient talent to be a one weekend tournament team and I’m not sure you’d agree with that. Whether we can attract such a coach (I think there’s a fair amount of room for improvement between Diebler and someone established and elite) is an open question. I’d give Diebler another year, but don’t expect much from it.
I think Diebler should get another year honestly.
But that year has to be a year where you provide him with enough resources to not set it (the program) up for failure to prove to whoever you want to come in that you're willing to spend to get to the promised land. And if that does happen (it likely won't), but if it does happen, then if Deibler improves you got your guy for a bit more. If not, then firing him is easier and no one will seriously question it.
But it all comes down to putting out as an athletic department. And it's an AD that I think might be cooking the books a bit to show a 'profit' of $15Million....that seemed odd to me at any rate and I don't think I'm alone in that sentiment.
Anyway, without that, you're going to get another G5 coach who likely won't get the job done with the current scant portal resources.
OR, even worse, a Penn-state-after-Franklin situation where all your top candidates use you as leverage to go somewhere else and are very public about it.
Either or - it doesn't matter in the end unless the AD is willing to recognize it's not 2005 anymore and the landscape has changed.
