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Originally Posted by KC Fish
Why? Why is coaching the last year of your contract with no extension in place yet considered to be "lame duck"? Who made that up?
Why is everyone so convinced that a coach won't play out the last year of his contract? That makes very little sense to me. This idea has been thrown around for a bit now, and it seems like everyone is taking this idea as accepted truth. But I don't see it that way. I don't see that it's so crazy for a coach to continue in the last year of his contract without everyone around him running for the hills. That's silly. It's not a requirement that you have to have an extension in place before you coach the last year of your current contract. Especially if you're a coach that has only won 6 games in the last 2 seasons.
Everyone has seemed to accept that he'll either be fired or get an extension. Either or. But I don't think that's the only possible outcome at all...
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And what happens in the locker room when the team gets off to a slow start, 0-4? Do you think that a coach in the last year of his contract will be able to demand the respect of players who are inked long term?
Everyone will know the coach is going to get fired and things will quickly become a circus. Essentially, '09 would become (yet another) lost season.