[CTcard]

Wonder if this will make any readers here more "open" to the notion that it's not out of bounds to criticize Coach Shaw. 

I think (but am not certain) that there is little resistance here to the notion that one may criticize coach Shaw.
I think many people believe that much of the specific criticism you aim at coach Shaw is incorrect (i.e. are either not true, not bad things, or not particularly consequential).

[CTcard]

Wonder if this will make any readers here more "open" to the notion that it's not out of bounds to criticize Coach Shaw. 

I think (but am not certain) that there is little resistance here to the notion that one may criticize coach Shaw.
I think many people believe that much of the specific criticism you aim at coach Shaw is incorrect (i.e. are either not true, not bad things, or not particularly consequential).