01-25-2016, 10:55 AM
I see positive signs based on this season as well as improvement on the part of the coaching staff (I'd like to believe due in some part to the continuity). That said, I agree that Dawkins's track record so far is solidly mediocre, which is absolutely reasonable grounds to move on.
I could be onboard with moving on, but there's a little too much: "we just need to find a Shaw/Harbaugh-like coach to turn things around". That's really hard. If we move on from Dawkins, we should expect to slip backwards in the short-term. And, there's no guarantee of what's going to happen in the medium/long-term. At best - we have a 10% shot at being a top 5% team.
The thread on Jim Mora is a great example of this - where we're happy to see UCLA "struggling" with 9-5/10-3 seasons. 28 out of 128 teams finished with 10 wins (after bowl games) this season. I (and pretty much every Stanford fan, lest someone claims I'm "settling for mediocrity") would have worshiped the ground whatever hypothetical coach we had walked on if he had those kind of seasons consistently while I was in school.
I could be onboard with moving on, but there's a little too much: "we just need to find a Shaw/Harbaugh-like coach to turn things around". That's really hard. If we move on from Dawkins, we should expect to slip backwards in the short-term. And, there's no guarantee of what's going to happen in the medium/long-term. At best - we have a 10% shot at being a top 5% team.
The thread on Jim Mora is a great example of this - where we're happy to see UCLA "struggling" with 9-5/10-3 seasons. 28 out of 128 teams finished with 10 wins (after bowl games) this season. I (and pretty much every Stanford fan, lest someone claims I'm "settling for mediocrity") would have worshiped the ground whatever hypothetical coach we had walked on if he had those kind of seasons consistently while I was in school.