HopFan16 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:00 am
ICGrad wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:31 am
Yes, they're a step behind the heavy hitters in their conference, but jettisoning him and hoping for a new coach to take you to the same level as a Virginia is pretty risky. Just ask any of the SEC schools who have had revolving doors of coaches as they desperately try to best Alabama.
Why is it any riskier than doing nothing and just hoping things turn around? As you said, they're already a step behind.
If the goal is to go 7-7 and miss the tournament most years, then there's plenty of other coaches who can do that just fine. Feels like if they are ever going to make a change, it would be now, otherwise just give Breschi a lifetime appointment and cut out all the uncertainty.
UNC the school recruits itself. IF they were to hire a new coach, that person shouldn't have much trouble bringing good players in.
Again, looking at the SEC as an example, the risk is that you jettison a good-to-great coach in the hopes of landing a coach that will take your program to that elite level...and end up doing the same thing 3-5 years down the road. And then again. And then again.
There's something to be said for stability, especially when you have a coach who has an NC under his belt and who was competing for another NC just two seasons ago. Unless there's strong reason that the program is deteriorating (and that could be the case), and not just going through a down-ish cycle, you risk ending up worse off than you were and facing having to fire the new HC 5 years down the line.
Not every coaching move yields positive results; some yield disastrous results (NCAA violations, toxic environments that erode recruiting and set a program back by at least several years, etc). When you're firing a coach like Breschi you absolutely run the risk of ending up in a worse, not better, place.