I follow Keff on twitter and generally like his Win Now or Get Bent podcast. However his recent podcast following last weekend’s loss rubbed me the wrong way for two reasons.
1) Keff kept saying that while the loss was bad, there’s still 75% of the season left so no need to get too worked up. I mean ya, it’s true that there’s a good chunk of games left. However I’ve seen nothing from the team over the first three games to make me think that they’re on the right track or there’s going to be a dramatic turnaround for the remaining 75% of the season. If anything it seems like the team is trending the wrong direction this season (the same could be said about the general direction of the team overall since Spav was hired back in 2019.) I’m more worried about the remaining 75% of the season than being optimistic like Keff kept saying.
2) Keff was saying it would be bad optics to fire Spav after the season as this would be two consecutive firings of head football coaches after a three year run and it would scare off potential candidates. That reasoning makes little sense and is really letting the tail wag the dog. Withers was no prize with his 7 - 28 record. Spav hasn’t proven to be a winner either with an overall record of 6 - 22. Putting aside the remaining salary due to Spav (which Keff didn’t mention), why keep riding with the same horse when there has been little improvement in the team and things don’t seem to be clicking?!? Cleaning house (or at least having a new President that takes athletics seriously) would do wonders for bringing in a quality hire. Ya, the culture around the program has sucked for years. But if you told me I’d be missing the golden days of Fran when he at least fielded some winners, I would’ve thought you were crazy. Bottom line, if Spav isn’t working, get rid of him rather than delaying the inevitable rebuild.
1) Keff kept saying that while the loss was bad, there’s still 75% of the season left so no need to get too worked up. I mean ya, it’s true that there’s a good chunk of games left. However I’ve seen nothing from the team over the first three games to make me think that they’re on the right track or there’s going to be a dramatic turnaround for the remaining 75% of the season. If anything it seems like the team is trending the wrong direction this season (the same could be said about the general direction of the team overall since Spav was hired back in 2019.) I’m more worried about the remaining 75% of the season than being optimistic like Keff kept saying.
2) Keff was saying it would be bad optics to fire Spav after the season as this would be two consecutive firings of head football coaches after a three year run and it would scare off potential candidates. That reasoning makes little sense and is really letting the tail wag the dog. Withers was no prize with his 7 - 28 record. Spav hasn’t proven to be a winner either with an overall record of 6 - 22. Putting aside the remaining salary due to Spav (which Keff didn’t mention), why keep riding with the same horse when there has been little improvement in the team and things don’t seem to be clicking?!? Cleaning house (or at least having a new President that takes athletics seriously) would do wonders for bringing in a quality hire. Ya, the culture around the program has sucked for years. But if you told me I’d be missing the golden days of Fran when he at least fielded some winners, I would’ve thought you were crazy. Bottom line, if Spav isn’t working, get rid of him rather than delaying the inevitable rebuild.
