RE: Tell me again why Tony Shaver was fired
Yeah, if you stop and think for a second, Holmes turning down the job (or even being offered it) doesn't remotely make any sense from multiple angles. First off, people like Holmes aren't turning down head coaching jobs period, event at WM. I believe exactly one coach who worked under Shaver at WM EVER has landed a head coaching gig, and that was at Mt. St. Mary's, far down the totem pole from us. Holmes isn't getting anywhere near a head coaching gig anytime soon (very possibly ever - the move from assistant to head coach is incredibly difficult to make with tons of good assistants out there), so it's inconceivable that he would have passed on the head job here. (And, because I'm sure someone will say it, no - there's no way he passed out of loyalty to Shaver or out of supposed fear of Huge. This would be pretty much a once in a lifetime chance for him, that he might never get, so he's not majorly stalling his career over what is an extremely routine move in college sports of moving on from a head coach after more than a decade. And if Shaver is half as good a person as he is portrayed on here - and I have zero reason to doubt he is - he would absolutely push Holmes to take the job. He wouldn't squander the career of one of his assistants over pettiness).
Then on our side, as the post noted above, we were turned down by Holmes, then ended up with a coach that on paper is way more qualified and seems to be very well respected in the coaching community? (I haven't seen a single person criticize Fischer.) Also doesn't remotely make sense. And add to that the fact that there was never any way Huge was firing Shaver and then promoting one of his assistants, for multiple reasons. That would have been completely nonsensical.
And lastly, I understand it's not a real complaint and is just people finding any angle they can to attack Huge, but this rumor about us getting turned down by a bunch of people for the job is a misguided thing to whine about. If that is true (I have no idea), that's a GOOD thing. Given that we, by all accounts, got at the worst a solid hire out of it, we absolutely SHOULD have started high and worked our way down. If Fischer had been our first choice, that means we had no ambition of going any higher. So I fail to see what the damage is from shooting for the moon in this search and ending up with a solid option after we put the work in to make sure that we couldn't do any better.
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