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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Without question.
That's exactly my point - to sit around and bitch at the people that were ready to move on from Pinkel is just stupid, there are very very few coaches in D1 football that have the cache to survive the shots Pinkel took over the last 2 years (many of them self-inflicted).
Pinkel deserved his heat. Rather than apologizing to people that are beating their chests because "they believed in Gary all along!!!!!", I'd prefer tell them to grow the !@#$ up and be willing to critically evaluate their program.
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It's important to make a distinction between having an honest assessment of a situation in the offseason...especially after everything that went down last year...and demanding his head during a game this year.
Nobody is going to be happy with every coaching decision he makes this year, but the man can coach, and he deserves the benefit of the doubt. His off the field issues (which were then used as an avenue for negative recruiting) were worthy of calling his job into question. His coaching performance is not. Even if you feel (as I do) that he is loyal to a fault when it comes to assistants, it's worthy of criticism...but not calling for his head.