Huh? He kept Groce one more year rather than replacing football and basketball coaches within 6 weeks of each other as the brand new AD. And Groce seemed to be turning the corner on some program changing recruits, two of which play huge roles on this team. Another who was released from the LOI he signed with Groce and has had a nice career at Mizzou.
If he’d have fired and hired both Cubit and Groce that first 6 weeks and both had failed/were failing now I have no doubt you’d complain that the Division III Guenther Lite should have gotten his feet under him before hiring and firing both revenue sport coaches.
But most importantly, whether Groce stayed a year or 3 too long, it all seems to have worked out quite well.
I mean Whitman got the BOT-and-faculty-pleasing hiring of a gay person and a black person out of the way early. So, like Brad Underwood, all his future hires will be evaluated solely on their actual merit rather than checking a diversity box. And he should be held accountable first for giving them the tools and resources to succeed, and then their subsequent success or failure.
But my point still remains that there is no way he would publicly call out the B1G with no perspective having voted 2-3 times for winning percentage with no caveats. That would be insanely idiotic. I’ll take Whitman at his word, you can believe the anonymous sources that support your Guenther Lite theory.
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