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<blockquote data-quote="AutoPoster 3000" data-source="post: 1183736" data-attributes="member: 17214"><p>Not that this is an original thought, because most of us said it back in November, but the events of this week just once again underscore how disconnected from reality this administration really is. They justified the Cubit retention believing the move somehow promoted stability and continuity in the football program while utterly missing the point that, even though Beckman and Cubit might have been members of the same staff, they were not in fact the same human being. (Not to mention the anecdotal evidence that they were entrenched separately in their own camps within the program and did not like each other much.) It was the timing of the Beckman firing -- not some mystical synergy between him and his replacement -- that prevented an immediate exodus of players who felt their loyalties betrayed. You can't transfer in August; all you can do is give up your scholarship and quit playing football. Yet somehow the administration read this short-term, situational, September-November "stability" as a unified endorsement of Cubit himself. Because they don't understand how college football works. And worse yet, they don't know that they don't understand how college football works. They think <em>we</em> are the idiots for pointing out that their weird decisions run counter to what every other football program in America does every year. </p><p></p><p>The fact is, it didn't matter if the transition was from Beckman to Cubit, or from Beckman/Cubit (as interim) to an entirely new head coach -- either way, it was a regime change that was going to produce shuffling amongst the assistants, player transfers, and mass disruptions and decommitments in the recruiting effort. The <em>main</em> effect of retaining Cubit for one more season, as opposed to hiring a new coach last December, is that we're now going to have to endure two periods of mass upheaval -- one now and one after the 2016 season too. Sadly, the only people that somehow did not realize that were the ones making it happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AutoPoster 3000, post: 1183736, member: 17214"] Not that this is an original thought, because most of us said it back in November, but the events of this week just once again underscore how disconnected from reality this administration really is. They justified the Cubit retention believing the move somehow promoted stability and continuity in the football program while utterly missing the point that, even though Beckman and Cubit might have been members of the same staff, they were not in fact the same human being. (Not to mention the anecdotal evidence that they were entrenched separately in their own camps within the program and did not like each other much.) It was the timing of the Beckman firing -- not some mystical synergy between him and his replacement -- that prevented an immediate exodus of players who felt their loyalties betrayed. You can't transfer in August; all you can do is give up your scholarship and quit playing football. Yet somehow the administration read this short-term, situational, September-November "stability" as a unified endorsement of Cubit himself. Because they don't understand how college football works. And worse yet, they don't know that they don't understand how college football works. They think [I]we[/I] are the idiots for pointing out that their weird decisions run counter to what every other football program in America does every year. The fact is, it didn't matter if the transition was from Beckman to Cubit, or from Beckman/Cubit (as interim) to an entirely new head coach -- either way, it was a regime change that was going to produce shuffling amongst the assistants, player transfers, and mass disruptions and decommitments in the recruiting effort. The [I]main[/I] effect of retaining Cubit for one more season, as opposed to hiring a new coach last December, is that we're now going to have to endure two periods of mass upheaval -- one now and one after the 2016 season too. Sadly, the only people that somehow did not realize that were the ones making it happen. [/QUOTE]
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