04-10-2017, 11:27 AM
Is it possible that Rittman might bear some of the responsibility for the mess left in his wake? I'm not here to absolve Muir (see my concluding sentence), who played his hand poorly, but any coach coming in was going to have to contend with a divided team (and that is as much on Rittman as Muir), the possibility of NCAA sanctions, and a depleted roster (again, at least partly due to Rittman). Would a different approach by Muir have resulted in one of the four coaches who declined the job giving us a different answer? Impossible to tell without knowing the reasons to say no, but I suspect Bob has ideas as to the answer. One thing that does seem likely is that the person we did offer the job to was clearly unfit. In the universe of fifth choices who would have said yes to the offer, surely one of them must have been a better coach than the one we did offer. But I do believe that with some time and space, and with the internal divisions in the team largely buried (it now appears the players are united in wanting to rid themselves of Hansen) we ought to be a less unattractive than we were three years ago.