No, it’s time for Josh to make decisions and they are not tough. This is Arkansas redo with Bret. Build to a point and it all craters after that. His slow developing ball control offense is old school. We need a dynamic HC who will play aggressive just like IU has. I do not know if Bret will change to be that aggressive. It’s not his style. I am not sure we regressed this year or three wins last year which could have been loses is the reality. Michigan beat themselves, we were a failed 2 point conversion from losing the Purdue game and the Rutgers game was complete luck. We were 10-3 with a 7-6 team. We just haven’t had the luck we had last year and reality has not only hit the fans but the players as well. I do not see anyway we beat NW next week. They threw 38 points up against Minny yesterday and they shut Michigans offense down and almost won that game. They will come hungry to beat us and I do not see how we respond after this disaster last night.
I'm upset, disappointed, frustrated, dejected - all the adjectives - about last night. That said, even if northwestern were to beat us by 20+ at home, we are not making a HC change. This take (not you - so not a personal attack) is bananas. We all remember what IL football history has been over the last 20 years, right? BB continues to be the guy to lead us into the future. He's not perfect but he's well above average, and we couldn't get anyone nearly as good as him at this point in time if Josh were to fire him. Some may say, well - yeah, but Josh is the best AD in the country and people want to work for/with him. I agree with that, but one of the reasons he's the best AD in the country is that he's not going to fire BB.
There are other parts of your post that I disagree with as well
-slow developing ball control offense is not what I've seen this year.
-wins are wins rather lucky or not. Sometimes a team benefits from that and other times not. Most of us tend to think that we get the short end of the stick on calls/replays/etc, but even if that's just homer-bias we're certainly not consistently getting the benefit so much that we are winning games we shouldn't due to outside factors.. You can't argue both ways.
I also think we all probably envisioned this team being something beyond what it is/was capable of being. We were always a team with a 6 win floor and 9 win ceiling and had no legitimate business being in any CFP discussion. I'd say the same was true last year. If that is actually true, then last year we very much outperformed (maybe due to some lucky bounces), and this year we are tracking with about where we should be.
The good news is BB is still an above average coach, and we have increased talent coming in that we haven't seen the likes of since the Zook days. I'd like to see some changes in the support staff, but firing BB is just beyond the pale and should not even be part of the discussion because it's just not going to happen.
