How confident are you on a scale of 1-10?
I think I'm around a 5. I looked it up this morning and I sort of forgot how bad his tenure has been. On the whole it's looking like it's worse that Spaz who also got four years. As disastrous as Spaz was, he finished with a .420 win percentage (Not counting the Meineke bowl win which we all know belongs to Coach O'Brien). Haf currently sits at .410 and is almost certainly going to get worse. The only argument I can think of in favor of Haf being a better coach than Spaz is that Spaz inherited a much better roster that he subsequently burned to the ground. Haf inherited a decent roster, but I don't think anyone would argue it was as good.
On the other hand, I'm really starting to feel like this school is giving up on sports in general and football in particular. Hoops may have gotten lucky that JC was fired while Kraft was still around. To me, there wasn't a single good thing you could say about the Blake hiring at the time (and certainly not now). It was the equivalent of raising the white flag on athletics. Which sort of brings us to the current scenario. I'm sure Leahy, and therefore Blake, is fine with letting football die on the vine and just let Haf play out his contract and part of me feels like it pretty much doesn't matter because if Blake/Leahy is hiring the replacement, that person actually reviving this program would almost have to happen completely by accident.
Anyway, happy Sunday everyone!
I think I'm around a 5. I looked it up this morning and I sort of forgot how bad his tenure has been. On the whole it's looking like it's worse that Spaz who also got four years. As disastrous as Spaz was, he finished with a .420 win percentage (Not counting the Meineke bowl win which we all know belongs to Coach O'Brien). Haf currently sits at .410 and is almost certainly going to get worse. The only argument I can think of in favor of Haf being a better coach than Spaz is that Spaz inherited a much better roster that he subsequently burned to the ground. Haf inherited a decent roster, but I don't think anyone would argue it was as good.
On the other hand, I'm really starting to feel like this school is giving up on sports in general and football in particular. Hoops may have gotten lucky that JC was fired while Kraft was still around. To me, there wasn't a single good thing you could say about the Blake hiring at the time (and certainly not now). It was the equivalent of raising the white flag on athletics. Which sort of brings us to the current scenario. I'm sure Leahy, and therefore Blake, is fine with letting football die on the vine and just let Haf play out his contract and part of me feels like it pretty much doesn't matter because if Blake/Leahy is hiring the replacement, that person actually reviving this program would almost have to happen completely by accident.
Anyway, happy Sunday everyone!
