I'll give you Doherty but I'm tired of people using BCG as an example as that was a completely different situation. BCG has a drinking problem and did during that time. He also rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. He went to student bars and hit on coeds. So he was kind of a PR nightmare and a lawsuit waiting to happen.Also, keep in mind the precise words you're responding to. It's true that I said that I'd have fired him if I was the AD. And I would have. Honestly, I think most ADs at schools that have high expectations would've done so. You think Kentucky would've retained him with his records? You think they'd have assumed the fetal position in fear of having to hire a better coach after firing one in response to a tepid 3 year run?
But the precise words you're objecting to in that last post is my contention that the results themselves -- ie, absent other considerations (e.g., money, what it communicates to other prospective coaches) -- did not warrant retaining him.
I don't think anybody could object to that -- even if you think, as most here do, that it was the correct decision not to fire him. The results have been, at best, middling -- and, really, that's being generous.
For me, I think the single biggest obstacle our program has is this culturally deep-seated aversion to taking bold and decisive moves. We'd never have fired Matt Doherty or Billy Gillispie when UNC and UK did. And that's why those programs are where they are and we're where we are....cowering about the hidden dangers of having high expectations.
More importantly, he hadn't signed a contract. A judge eventually ruled against the university and they had to pay him $7M but at the time it looked like UK could get rid of him without having to pay him.
Miller isn't incredibly charismatic but he also doesn't piss a lot of important people off. He's not a lush or a womanizer. He does have a contract with a large buyout. It's quite possible that without that contract he would've been let go by now but there's no way to know since he has it. It is equally impossible to say if UK would've gotten rid of BCG when they did if he had a contract with a large buyout.