I posted this somewhere else but this whole "should he be fired or not" is VERY simple to solve. You ready, try to keep up now this gets very complicated the farther this goes. Okay, here goes.
Each school should have minimum thresholds that have to be met to remain the coach at that school. Make them transparent to everyone as well, that way if you've got your eye on your dream school you'd know whether that coach was in danger of losing his job or not and could then plan your OWN moves accordingly.
For the big boys, the blue bloods, make it difficult/very difficult but still realistic. Someone mentioned one time that all the A+ baseline prestige schools should make the Sweet Sixteen EVERY season in this game or the coach should be fired. Unrealistic? You bet your *** it is. So what he's saying, literally, is that I'm at Duke and I run the table during the regular season and CT. I enter the NT at 29-0 and ranked #1 by a mile. I win my first round game to go to 30-0. In my second round game, I lose by a point on a halfcourt shot at the buzzer. Now according to this genius, because I didn't make the Sweet Sixteen I should be fired. See the obvious problem there?
There needs to be combinations of games won, NT bids, NT games won, maybe throw in a conference title or two, final rankings, stuff like that. The worse the starting baseline for the school, the longer the leash. It's not rocket science folks, just simple common sense. Now of course, the minimums required would have to be tweaked and would have to be reachable. I just mentioned a couple of examples earlier. But you do it like this: when job openings come around and coaches are looking to move, they check on an open school and their "agent" tells them right then and there what the requirements are, how long they have to meet said requirements, and a reminder right then and there that if they DON'T meet those standards that they'll be removed from that coaching position. You'd probably have to have the requirements change on a rolling yearly basis, but that wouldn't be difficult either, just subtract from the minimums for the season just completed. Easy. Again, make those minimums transparent so everyone knows whether a coach is safe or not and by doing that, you can probably estimate a year or two in advance if a plum job is going to be opening up.
Doing that takes away any "guesswork" about whether or not they'd be fired in real life, whether they should or shouldn't be fired in the game, and coaches that DID get fired would have ZERO excuse or reason for getting ****** off if they did get shitcanned. If a coach got fired, he and everyone else would know EXACTLY why he did, no controversy, no complaining, and no logjams waiting for elite jobs to open up for advancement. Part of your minimum standard was to win 80 games over a 4 year period, but you only won 79? Close, nice try, but you missed the minimum so you gotsta go! No confusion, no debating, no questions asked. You signed up for the job knowing well in advance what the requirements were, you failed to meet a part of those requirements, so you get the honor of looking for another place of employment. Goodbye and good luck with the rest of your coaching career. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here.
E.A.S.Y. S.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.
By the way, out of all the discussion about hirings/firings/promotions, etc., this one is BY FAR the best that's ever been put out there (as I pat myself on the back). For you coaches in the beta, tell Seble I'll consult with him and give him easy solutions to other HD problems if he'd like me to. For a small fee of course. Something like, free seasons for life, something cheap like that. Only halfway joking by the way. I've got all kinds of easy solutions for every small, medium, or large issue HD has. It's just that, no one has bothered to ask. All the admins have to do is stop acting like they know everything for a minute (it takes away from those of us that really do, ha ha) and...............ask.
7/24/2016 6:02 PM (edited)