STOP...Let's wait until an embarrassing loss to a lesser team or a 1-4 start before we start talking about this please. There are plenty on this board who think TU should have moved on 2-3 years ago...except he started winning games and turning out NFL players.
He's the coach for this season...let's let it get started before we start calling for his head
I’m actually OK with the pressure of unrealistic expectations on this program at this point. That’s been missing for 12 years or so.
Everyone on this board knows that I reacted with alarm and outrage at the hiring of both PM and FH. So no apologies from me for PM , but as you correctly point out, PM has done a lot quietly behind the scenes in the last few months to substantially improve his stature in my mind at least. I would like to think that is because he no longer feels powerless behind a university infrastructure disinterested or hostile to his success.
That said, he is paid millions to work in a measured success industry. Ultimately, that success is measured not just by wins, but by increased return ticket and season ticket revenue.
We had better see someone coaching with the same sense of urgency as an NBA player in the final year of a multi-year contract.
Winning four games, adding two more when opposing teams beat themselves, and then winning the Coacheslastchance.com Bowl in Slidell LA at 10am on Christmas ain’t gonna cut it.