[washingtonismoney]

Is this that bad? I mean, if keeps Fangio on then it won't be like they should get that much worse, right?

...Right?

In of itself, if there were a vacuum that just happened to arise, then Tomsula seems like a perfectly plausible hire, I suppose. Short of obvious awesome hires (say...hiring Jim Harbaugh to Michigan) or obviously dumb hires (say...Gene Chizik to Auburn), basically my thinking when logically assessing coaching hires is, "Is it plausible? If so, that's fine." Because coaching hires are too weird and too unpredictable to give a strong assessment short of the obvious.

(I mean, I thought Jim Mora would be an obvious failure, Todd Graham would be meh, and Mike Leach brilliant during hte last big round of Pac-12 hires. The one that I'm vindicated on, in retrospect, is the Rich Rodriguez hire, which I was sure would be great.)

But I can't be rational and pretend that there was just this vacuum; I can't just assume the sunk cost, etc. I can't get it out of my mind that the Niners ditched a lavishly successful coach for reasons that are, most charitably, unclear. (The more Jed York tries to explain, the stupider he seems to me.) That's why the "LOL." It's, "seriously? This is why you fired Jim Harbaugh?"

[washingtonismoney]

Is this that bad? I mean, if keeps Fangio on then it won't be like they should get that much worse, right?

...Right?

In of itself, if there were a vacuum that just happened to arise, then Tomsula seems like a perfectly plausible hire, I suppose. Short of obvious awesome hires (say...hiring Jim Harbaugh to Michigan) or obviously dumb hires (say...Gene Chizik to Auburn), basically my thinking when logically assessing coaching hires is, "Is it plausible? If so, that's fine." Because coaching hires are too weird and too unpredictable to give a strong assessment short of the obvious.

(I mean, I thought Jim Mora would be an obvious failure, Todd Graham would be meh, and Mike Leach brilliant during hte last big round of Pac-12 hires. The one that I'm vindicated on, in retrospect, is the Rich Rodriguez hire, which I was sure would be great.)

But I can't be rational and pretend that there was just this vacuum; I can't just assume the sunk cost, etc. I can't get it out of my mind that the Niners ditched a lavishly successful coach for reasons that are, most charitably, unclear. (The more Jed York tries to explain, the stupider he seems to me.) That's why the "LOL." It's, "seriously? This is why you fired Jim Harbaugh?"