Sonny is the Scapegoat. The repository of all blame. The cause of all our sorrows. Once we excise this foulness which has invaded our beloved Froggish Program, all will be sunshine and beauty again!
Yeah. Sounds pretty dumb all boiled down, doesn't it? Sonny Cumbie is not the source of all the issues bedeviling the Frogs. Many, tis true. But certainly not all. He also is sort-of set up to fail.
By this I mean that Sonny, to the best of my knowledge, has not been able to hire his own guys to coach the various positions on his Offensive squad. I know, for example, that his WR coach is an old thorn to the longtime denizens of this FFF. I cannot believe that Cumbie willingly hired Anderson to coach the WR corps. I am also astounded that he would be put in that position by GMFP after the 2013 debacle. Considering how downright awful our 2013 receivers were, the 2019 squad would arguably have been better off being handed copies of "Catching Footballs for Dummies" and locked in a room for several hours a day. But, that is the hand that Sonny was dealt. He has suffered through game after game of watching balls bounce off the hands of receivers all year, just as we have. I can't imagine he is pleased about it. The issue is, he can't do anything about it. Anderson is an old buddy of GMFP, and is thus un-fireable.
I think it's a foregone conclusion that Sonny is off to greener pastures in six weeks or so. I can't imagine him wanting to stay at TCU considering the position he has been put into. The question then becomes, who would take that position? Anyone looking at the job would know that he wouldn't get to hire his own guys. He would also know that he might be saddled with coaches who can't do their jobs, and thus jeopardize his own job. What experienced coach would put themselves in that position?