[PalmTree]

Here's my biggest fear: Shaw sticks around next year after appointing Keller Chryst or someone similar as the new Coordinating Coach of Winningest Winning (because it's easier to add and not fire people), and then eeks out a 6-6 season and maybe an overtime win against Foothill College in the Pablum Bowl.  Same Denny's menu; same three plays and the wildcat; same constipated-turtle mentality; same lack of intensity; same staggering predictability; same inability to distinguish the McKees and Wests of the world; same lofty off-field talk; same finger-pointing at 'execution' and 'opportunities' at press conferences; same bowling pin defense.  Then what?  

Then what? Attendance and ticket/media revenues will continue to decline, DAPER's varsity athletics operating deficit (-$3M in 2019, -$2.9M in 2020. $??M in 2021 or 2022 - this stuff is all in the university's annual budget book, BTW) will also continue to tailspin and then MTL/PD/the BoT and more importantly, faculty, will lose their appetite for subsidizing the worsening operating deficits with university funds and decide to fund buyouts for the AD and the Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football instead.

That said, I also get the sickening feeling this will all play out in/after the 2023 season, no matter what happens next season and that's a d**n shame.....

[PalmTree]

Here's my biggest fear: Shaw sticks around next year after appointing Keller Chryst or someone similar as the new Coordinating Coach of Winningest Winning (because it's easier to add and not fire people), and then eeks out a 6-6 season and maybe an overtime win against Foothill College in the Pablum Bowl.  Same Denny's menu; same three plays and the wildcat; same constipated-turtle mentality; same lack of intensity; same staggering predictability; same inability to distinguish the McKees and Wests of the world; same lofty off-field talk; same finger-pointing at 'execution' and 'opportunities' at press conferences; same bowling pin defense.  Then what?  

Then what? Attendance and ticket/media revenues will continue to decline, DAPER's varsity athletics operating deficit (-$3M in 2019, -$2.9M in 2020. $??M in 2021 or 2022 - this stuff is all in the university's annual budget book, BTW) will also continue to tailspin and then MTL/PD/the BoT and more importantly, faculty, will lose their appetite for subsidizing the worsening operating deficits with university funds and decide to fund buyouts for the AD and the Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football instead.

That said, I also get the sickening feeling this will all play out in/after the 2023 season, no matter what happens next season and that's a d**n shame.....