[Maple Leaf]

The heat needs to be turned up on Shaw AND Muir.

The only person to turn up the heat on Muir would be his boss Persis Drell, the Provost. The of immense proportions financial deficit and dropping 11 sports certainly should get her attention. But as far as I know, Stanford has never fired an AD, at least not in my lifetime. Joe Ruetz retired, Andy Geiger left for Ohio State, Ted Leland sort of retired, Bob Bowlsby left to be B12 commissioner.

The best way out of this would be for the ACC to hire Bernard as its new commissioner. He eases his way out of the mess that he created and leaves it for a new AD to clean up.

"Heat" isn't synonymous with firing (at least from my angle).  

Heat is sense of urgency; heat is doing something (like telling your head football coach that the current system is not working and that he needs to hire and OC and get the hell out of the way; need to work harder on recruiting trail, etc.).

The provost or President (or whoever is in charge) can put sense of urgency on Muir to get flagship football program on better footing.

Between Shaw and Muir I wonder really what is their respective thinking about the state of the program.  At the present time I am sure a major/primary focus is the health of the players, coaches, staff and other members of the athletic department.

[Maple Leaf]

The heat needs to be turned up on Shaw AND Muir.

The only person to turn up the heat on Muir would be his boss Persis Drell, the Provost. The of immense proportions financial deficit and dropping 11 sports certainly should get her attention. But as far as I know, Stanford has never fired an AD, at least not in my lifetime. Joe Ruetz retired, Andy Geiger left for Ohio State, Ted Leland sort of retired, Bob Bowlsby left to be B12 commissioner.

The best way out of this would be for the ACC to hire Bernard as its new commissioner. He eases his way out of the mess that he created and leaves it for a new AD to clean up.

"Heat" isn't synonymous with firing (at least from my angle).  

Heat is sense of urgency; heat is doing something (like telling your head football coach that the current system is not working and that he needs to hire and OC and get the hell out of the way; need to work harder on recruiting trail, etc.).

The provost or President (or whoever is in charge) can put sense of urgency on Muir to get flagship football program on better footing.

Between Shaw and Muir I wonder really what is their respective thinking about the state of the program.  At the present time I am sure a major/primary focus is the health of the players, coaches, staff and other members of the athletic department.