As much as I hate to think it, I have a feeling Herm will be here through not only this season but next as well.
Carl has 1 year left on his contract. As much as I am ready for a change at GM, I just don't see Clark firing him. He's been with the organization for 19 years, Lamar thought a lot of Carl and Clark knows that. I think the Hunts are too upstanding to fire a guy one year from retirement that has been close to the family like Carl has been.
If Carl is going to be gone after next season, I think it will be tough finding a HC to come in and work for his boss 1 year before a new GM comes in who may want to go in another direction anyway. Carl also said when Herm was hired that Herm would be his last HC hiring. I just don't see a HC change until there is a GM change.
I also am hearing that this is supposedly the first real year of rebuilding - that in itself will probably keep the top guys around another season.
I may be wrong, I hope I'm wrong, but I really think we'll be back to Herm and Carl next year as well.
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