[ColoradoTree]

The ASU situation is stunning.  The entire point of concocting this odd hands-off/figurehead model of a head coach and further empowering the coordinators was to make sure you kept both coordinators, rather than bringing in someone like Kevin Sumlin who would have hired his own OC and DC.  Now you're stuck with a head coach who hasn't coached a game in a decade, hasn't coached in college or had to recruit since the 1980s, and both of your coordinators have flown the coop. 

Just a bungling of the highest order.  That team is going to be dreadful.  Congrats, ASU!  You are now the cautionary tale that ADs and school administrators will think of when they're considering firing a head coach.  "Yeah, we're sick of 7-5, but we don't want to end up like ASU did when they fired Todd Graham!"  Of course, the easy response to that is: "Well, we're not morons, so I was thinking we'd hire an actual football coach and not a TV pundit, so I think we'll be OK."

[ColoradoTree]

The ASU situation is stunning.  The entire point of concocting this odd hands-off/figurehead model of a head coach and further empowering the coordinators was to make sure you kept both coordinators, rather than bringing in someone like Kevin Sumlin who would have hired his own OC and DC.  Now you're stuck with a head coach who hasn't coached a game in a decade, hasn't coached in college or had to recruit since the 1980s, and both of your coordinators have flown the coop. 

Just a bungling of the highest order.  That team is going to be dreadful.  Congrats, ASU!  You are now the cautionary tale that ADs and school administrators will think of when they're considering firing a head coach.  "Yeah, we're sick of 7-5, but we don't want to end up like ASU did when they fired Todd Graham!"  Of course, the easy response to that is: "Well, we're not morons, so I was thinking we'd hire an actual football coach and not a TV pundit, so I think we'll be OK."