Decoy

At first I was ready to say he hadn't been given a fair chance to turn the program around. Then I thought about it, and that might have been the plan all the time. If he ends up somewhere as a recruiting cordinator making six figures, and Memphis ends up hiring a high profile coach to take his place. I'll have suspicions of history repeating itself. He was used like Tic Price to clear the path for what's to come. After such a disappointing run the fans have lowered expectations.  They're ready to break open the bank to get a winner.

I'm beginning to think there really is a glass ceiling in college coaching for minorities. When you look at their win/loss records you can kind of see why. Even at HBCs black coaches aren't exclusive.. Football fans and players alike seem to be more comfortable with a white head coach. I believe next year we would have seen a marked improvement in the Memphis program anyway. If that had happened, it would have created a problem. That would explain him only being given two years to turn it around. To win was never the plan.