That dumb? On paper Jordan looked like a great hire. We get it..your hindsight is perfect.
Well most of us were excited..it was an nba coach who had limited success coming back and most of us were jumping for joy. Was an NBA coach with a winning record gonna sniff ru? No? Ok then. If you want to pretend like the board knew what was coming or how amazingly lazy he was, fine. Your hindsight is, again, immaculate.
I thought Jordan was just going to be a 1-2 year bandaid.. doing us a favor at a time when it might have been real hard to hire a coach with the mess going on. But man, he was awful and nothing in his resume showed he could build a college team. Hell.. we woulda been better off going to ANYONE else. How sad is that? We should have stuck with Rice and blamed it on having already punished him with the suspension and mandated counselling. Then let him have open practices that anyone could watch. Rice was a good coach with some old bobby knight/boot-camp mentality that had to be corrected. We teach PR here somewhere, but somehow never attempted to turn vice into virtue on that one.
I am not sure I understand your question. Are you asking if I would have fired Rice? Rice wasn't getting it done on the court and then had a scandle so firing him became necessary or maybe more appropriately justified.
