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Question for those who follow college hoops outside Stanford more than I do: is there any precedent for firing a coach 10 minutes after a road game, before he's even gotten on the plane much less held the press conference?

I wanted Haase gone as much as anyone, but not waiting until today to do it feels unnecessarily mean in retrospect.  It's not like there was misconduct or something.

Well, about a week ago UW fired its head coach BEFORE he got on the plane to Vegas…

As bad as Muir has been, I’ve got to believe that Haase has already been told long before yesterday. Indeed, the timing of the announcement might very well have been a matter of mutual agreement, allowing him to make his eloquent remarks at the press conference, along with Angel and Jones there to make their tributes as well. Plus, it put an end to all of the media (and fan board) snarky comments sooner than later…

Jerod Haase's press conference after he was fired shows that he was an incredibly decent, sensitive, and caring human being.

I've thought this from the beginning.  He couldn't be as good a recruiter as he has been if he wasn't a good guy to be around.

BTW, here's the press conference if anyone hasn't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd3Lxc_6Uao

After watching, I say hire Haase as AD.  He clearly loves Stanford, he cares about education, he's been around top sports programs as a player and a (assistant) coach.  He probably wants to keep coaching, but he just seems like he'd be a good person to keep around the university.

I agree, 100%.

I can believe Haase is a great guy, but he didn't show ability to hire assistants who could make the program great, so why would we expect him to be able to hire a great head coach to replace himself?

There's also the adage I've heard quoted here: As hire As, Bs hire Cs.

This isn't meant as a specific knock on the current assistants, who I know nothing about. Just judging the program on results.

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Question for those who follow college hoops outside Stanford more than I do: is there any precedent for firing a coach 10 minutes after a road game, before he's even gotten on the plane much less held the press conference?

I wanted Haase gone as much as anyone, but not waiting until today to do it feels unnecessarily mean in retrospect.  It's not like there was misconduct or something.

Well, about a week ago UW fired its head coach BEFORE he got on the plane to Vegas…

As bad as Muir has been, I’ve got to believe that Haase has already been told long before yesterday. Indeed, the timing of the announcement might very well have been a matter of mutual agreement, allowing him to make his eloquent remarks at the press conference, along with Angel and Jones there to make their tributes as well. Plus, it put an end to all of the media (and fan board) snarky comments sooner than later…

Jerod Haase's press conference after he was fired shows that he was an incredibly decent, sensitive, and caring human being.

I've thought this from the beginning.  He couldn't be as good a recruiter as he has been if he wasn't a good guy to be around.

BTW, here's the press conference if anyone hasn't seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd3Lxc_6Uao

After watching, I say hire Haase as AD.  He clearly loves Stanford, he cares about education, he's been around top sports programs as a player and a (assistant) coach.  He probably wants to keep coaching, but he just seems like he'd be a good person to keep around the university.

I agree, 100%.

I can believe Haase is a great guy, but he didn't show ability to hire assistants who could make the program great, so why would we expect him to be able to hire a great head coach to replace himself?

There's also the adage I've heard quoted here: As hire As, Bs hire Cs.

This isn't meant as a specific knock on the current assistants, who I know nothing about. Just judging the program on results.