re: Do You Think Alleva Is Letting JJ Play the Season Out to Bury Brown/Temple?

I think he lets it go to the end for a few reasons:

1. A change now isn't going to "save" the season and he doesn't have many (if any) influential boosters/BOS members jumping down his throat to replace Jones like he did with Miles.

2. Jones has definitely underachieved, but he hasn't been horrible until this season. For all of the obviously weak coaching, this will be his first losing season. Maybe Joe thinks he deserves to finish out his tenure.

3. He may not want to get the reputation of an AD who has a proclivity to fire coaches mid-season. While becoming less so, it's still somewhat taboo to fire a coach mid-season in the college game. Maybe he thinks doing it twice in the same season will hurt his chances of luring a good coach here.

***In the end does it really matter though? We've seen what he did with a two-month head start on replacing Miles. He could have gotten the same result with a two minute head start. Hopefully Joe is putting together a short list and getting a game plan ready implement as soon as the season ends. However, based on past history, we can't be confident that is the case.