re: Trying to be objective...is O really a bad decision?

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They'll all cry and point to ole Miss as if it's relevant.

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Why would it be irrelevant? would it be irrelevant if we were hiring some other team's DL coach to replace Miles?

in all the years O has been a coach, he's had only one stop where he has had full control of the reigns of his own program for several years. That one time was Ole Miss. It was an abject failure by even Ole Miss of that time frame standards.

Did SC stay afloat while he was their interim head coach? Yep. And yet, at the end of the day, SC looked at the job he did and the job he had done the only other time he'd be a full time head coach and decided to go another direction. The fact that they hired poorly doesn't make that the wrong move.

Did LSU stay afloat while he was our interim? Yep. I'd go so far as to say that LSU played better while we was the interim. I'd also add that he did precisely what nearly every poster on this site has been saying for years, which was slightly open up the offense, and he saw immediate success.

So his resume is one of one abject failure when he's the main man in charge responsible solely for hiring, firing, running the program, etc. He's had two successful, albeit minimally so, turns as the interim HC for two loaded teams which jettisoned the HC early in the season.

Frankly...the only thing that IS relevant, as far as I'm concerned, is his Ole Miss stint. As of today, he has STILL never been a successful full time head coach at any program, let alone a Power 5 one. Call me cynical, but I'd have kind of sort of preferred we hired a guy that had shown the ability to at least go .500 as a head coach of his own program before giving him ours.

The mileage of others CLEARLY varies...