You don't think about firing a coach after years 1-3. Year 2 has just started and people on the board want him canned. That's silly. A university that fired several coaches after 2 or 3 years with the University would not be respected, and have no good candidates for their coaching searches.
On the other hand their is our practice as of late, in keeping coaches too long. We seem to be on the year 8 or 9 year firing mode, with little performance to motivate extensions. You need to give a coach 4-7 years to be respected by the coaching fraternity, in order to get a good selection list for the next coach. The sweet spot is after 5 years and no real performance markers for keeping them. 6 is not a bad number either. He has to be doing really bad after 4 years to even consider it.
All the moaners on this board would have had 3 coaches ea in place of Monty, and Haith. We would not be getting the proper candidates in out searches if we did this. Also , you can throw some pretty decent coaches under the bus if you have no more than two or three years to evaluate them.
