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<blockquote data-quote="ChiefGritty" data-source="post: 1568867" data-attributes="member: 746137"><p>Lovie was a tough hire to grade at the equivalent moment, because what are you grading it against? It wasn't really a "coaching search".</p><p></p><p>The Cubit mini-contract was a really awful place for the program to be in. The roster was never anywhere near as bad as the Lovie savior narrative required it to be, but there's a chance seeing out that Cubit season could have gotten it to that point. And what it meant for the credibility of the program with recruits, but also just among its own fans and the Big Ten audience was just devastating.</p><p></p><p>Lovie wiped that all away in a snap of the fingers. As poorly as he performed in the job, he did great service to the program by taking it in that moment.</p><p></p><p>There were certainly reasons to doubt Lovie as a college coach, but at this point in that process all the right things were being said. The miraculous, almost divine intervention nature of the way it came out of the blue, right on the heels of "not ideal" certainly had us all overjoyed to a degree that outstripped the credibility of the hire in a vacuum. But it WASN'T in a vacuum, so I don't see how you can give it any less than a B+/A-</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ChiefGritty, post: 1568867, member: 746137"] Lovie was a tough hire to grade at the equivalent moment, because what are you grading it against? It wasn't really a "coaching search". The Cubit mini-contract was a really awful place for the program to be in. The roster was never anywhere near as bad as the Lovie savior narrative required it to be, but there's a chance seeing out that Cubit season could have gotten it to that point. And what it meant for the credibility of the program with recruits, but also just among its own fans and the Big Ten audience was just devastating. Lovie wiped that all away in a snap of the fingers. As poorly as he performed in the job, he did great service to the program by taking it in that moment. There were certainly reasons to doubt Lovie as a college coach, but at this point in that process all the right things were being said. The miraculous, almost divine intervention nature of the way it came out of the blue, right on the heels of "not ideal" certainly had us all overjoyed to a degree that outstripped the credibility of the hire in a vacuum. But it WASN'T in a vacuum, so I don't see how you can give it any less than a B+/A- [/QUOTE]
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