I'm curious what the board thinks about coaching decisions from the perspective of an AD so I want to do a separate post/poll on that but I want to make sure I have the two starting points right.
My view as articulated in this thread is that an AD should start by realistically assessing the program to get a realistic expectation. If the current coach is substantially above that, fight to keep him. If he is substantially below that, fire him. If he is near that, eh. I really don't care what the plan is because my view is that the "average coach" should attain the program average.
Further, my view is that coaching hires are basically a crap shoot so I think all the talk about "plan" is kinda silly because plenty of hires that looked dubious turned out great and plenty that looked great turned out bad.
I think that the above is also roughly
@betarhoalphadelta 's view but if I'm wrong, please correct me.
The following is my paraphrasing of
@MaximumSam 's view so if I'm misstating your view here, please correct me:
Max's view is that you need to have a transition plan in place first because you need to select a replacement that you think is better than your current coach.