[Husker] SP and the whole sordid deal

[Mark Landin]

> If there was any way to undo what was done, I wish we could
> have kept a few of the former NU players, who'd come back for assistant
> coach positions. To wipe them out like SP did was brutal.


But it was necessary, and I don't think there's a "gentle" way to purge a
staff. Coaching is a brutal business, and coaches know that. If you hire a
Head Coach, you MUST let him pick his own assistants. You can't hamstring
him by making him try to build a rapport with coaches he's never worked with
while at the same time building rapport with a team he just inherited,
and in this case SP was correct to bear the burden of an unpopular purge
instead of making BC (or whomever was going to come in) do the dirty work.

I wish Frank's termination could have been done differently. SP should NOT
have leaked his intentions to boosters so that Frank basically discovered
his fate from the newspapers instead of his boss. He should NOT have given
Pelini a token interview ... either interview him like he's a real
candidate, or tell him straight out "you are not a candidate". He should NOT
have approached the coaching search with the (apparent) lack of planning
that was displayed.