re: For everyone blowing on CEO and Ensminger at the presser today

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Both of these men live and breathe purple and gold, have since birth.

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Certainly this doesn't outweigh an inability to perform the job, right? Certainly you agree, no?

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They will do the very best they can for this team because they are fully invested, mind, body, and soul

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The best they can isn't necessarily good enough, right? Certainly, you agree with that, no?

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You can tell this is huge for him

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Some would say it's too big for him.

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He did a bang up job in 2016 when he had to take over a broken mess, with no time to prepare and someone else's playbook

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He never was able to get the passing game going. We've always had a running game.

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Give this hire a chance. Let it play out before you bash the man

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I'm going to give my opinion on the hire itself based on what I know right now. It was a bad, bad hire. We hired a guy for a critical position (some might say it's the key to turning the program around) that nobody else in our peer group would hire.

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It obviously hasn't hurt recruiting

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This is speculation given that the early signing class happened before this move.

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There are very few Offensive Coordinators out there that I would take over Ensminger right now.

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