I realize I am just one guy, but I don't have much respect for Urban Meyer or anybody from his Coaching Tree. Yeah, he's a good coach and an inspiring leader. He's also an amoral scuzzball that I really wouldn't want being the public face of our most visible showpiece.
There are a lot of coaches that can put together good game plans, or teach good fundamentals. That is an innate skill that comes from a love of the game. However, beyond that ability to simply instruct, there is the third quality of kindling that love in a player that inspires them to strive just that little bit harder. Those guys are special, and that's what we should be looking for.
Again, I absolutely believe that GMFP has these qualities. He has displayed them before. We know they are present in him. The issue has been, where did they go? What happened to the fire? How do we get it back?
GMFP's seat is turned up to the BROILER setting right now. I cannot even believe that he doesn't know that his recent choices for Offensive Coaching spots has been a bomb-in-the-septic-tank level failure. As has also been pointed out, he has never fired anyone. He has run some off, but he inexplicably brought them back. His choice is simple: Fire longtime friends (or proteges), or get fired yourownself. Those are about the only two choices Donati has to offer come Monday. Yesterday's performance was absolutely unacceptable, given that it was a rival and that we were coming off a bye week. Half-assed won't cut it. Deep down in his heart, GMFP knows this.
SO, Donati's options are based on GMFP's choices: 1.) Rebuild an Offensive Staff with new people, 2.) Build a completely new Coaching Staff with new people, while paying off GMFP for the next several years with diminishing Football revenues and some newly hostile Donors. Donati will not like the latter option. But, that's why he gets paid to be AD. It's his call, or at least his recommendation to the Board which will carry a lot of weight. Personally I would like for GMFP to quit being a stubborn old coot and realize that his Offensive guys are liabilities and move on, rather than dig in his heels and fight for guys who cannot do the job. We tend to view this as a business matter, while GMFP views this as a Family matter. After all, that's what they pitch to recruits: Family. Can't go around lopping the heads off family....