Just so I understand let me ask. If I question the process where FG fires KW and within minutes walks down the hall and hires CTA, does that make me a hater? When FG and CTA predict a breakout season and it is not, am I a hater? When the 2nd season is as bad or worse than the 1st season and I'm not satisfied with the coaching am I a hater?
I want to see CTA do well because I want IU to win in my lifetime and it looks less likely each year. I thought I saw something during the Michigan game that was encouraging but then laid an egg against Purdue. The team was unprepared and poorly coached. During the season I saw too many penalties and drive killing mistakes that shows how undisciplined the team is and that translates to poor coaching. The Pukes started the season playing stupid but fixed it and we didnt.
If we play next season like we did against Michigan I'll be giving CTA praises and I hope they do but I still have reservations.
Depends.
Tone matters.
So does accuracy.
So do the REASONS behind the claim that coaching is dissatisfying.
If they are “football valid” we can talk. I don't mind fair, valid and constructive criticism.
Best example - non-coaching: its EASY to see/understand why many folks favor Penix over Ramsey. Gun versus non-gun. Drop-in-bucket downfield throws versus frozen ropes. But it's also possible - if not easy - to understand why Allen/Debord/Sheridan picked Ramsey to start and brought Penix along slow. Experience and the 4-game red-shirt rule made that a different calculation than in the past. IF there was no 4 game rule, my bet is we'd have red-shirted Penix from the start and the kid from Arizona would have stayed. But no way do I see them starting a raw rookie with a big arm over Ramsey. But I can understand why others may disagree.
As to coaching:
Why does IU "laying an egg against Purdue" mean our coaches are no good, while Ohio State laying an egg against Iowa last year and Purdue this year just means Brohm is brilliant? Why isn't Meyer criticized for the same thing in the same way as Allen?
I was much more upset with the games at Maryland last year (defense laid down) and Minnesota this year (whole team stayed on the bus) than either Bucket Game (although I HATE to lose ANY Bucket Game - POTFB).
But even so - a football team played well one week and didn’t play well every week? Wow. Alert the media? Nope.
Teams that can sustain high-level play nearly every week are Top 20 teams. Anybody think Wilson would have had us in the Top 20 last year? This year? How about the Great National Search Hire? Could we have gotten the UCF guy here? Les Miles? Mack Brown? Would ANYBODY we could have actually hired other than Allen won more than 5 and 5? I'll hang up and listen. I don't see it - but I'll listen. But not just to "Glass sucks - we suck - shut up." I'll fight that.
People say we should just announce a big salary and watch the resumes roll in.
That's not how it works.
And our post-WWII national searches brought us ... mostly disasters.
Clyde Smith 8–27–1 First 2 years 3-15
Bernie Crimmins 13–32 4-14
Phil Dickens 20–41–2 9-7-2 and probation for all teams all sports
John Pont 31–51–1 3-16-1
Lee Corso 28–52–2 3-19
Sam Wyche 3–8
Mallory 69–77–3 4-18
Cam Cameron 18–37 6-16
Gerry DiNardo 8–27 5-19
Terry Hoeppner 9–14
Kevin Wilson 18–38 5-19
Tom Allen 10-14
MOST posters on this board would have wanted to fire everybody but Dickens after 2 years.
National versus internal isn't deciding factor.
More (IMO) unfair pro-Brohm bias - Brohm had a year to evaluate Sindelar (3rd year junior) and Blough (5th year Senior). He then picked the wrong guy. Maybe cost them an 8 or 9 win season. But here, Brohm "fixed" his problems while Allen is criticized for picking between Ramsey (3rd year sophomore) and Penix (true freshman - no experience). Apples and oranges.
You say Allen had an "undisciplined" and "unprepared" team, using penalties as evidence. The FACT is we were called for 71 penalties. Purdue had 75. Michigan had 84. Ohio State had 107. But only OUR coaches suck? Nope. Not fair.
Penalties CAN mean poor coaching. Not always. It’s not as easy as that. Blocking a guy who outweighs you, and is stronger and faster than you, may also impact the issue. (See the Iowa OL and MSU DL this season.) Fact is when the defensive line is throwing you around, you tend to false start and/or hold. It may have nothing to do with coaching. Only a guy who watches film can tell that.
I also suspect Glass gave the Wilson/Allen fire/hire decision way more thought than your post implies, but I understand the complaint. I also think the cake is still cooking and its too early to fairly give this staff a final up or down.
According to the actual numbers, Allen has done BETTER than most coaches do in the first two years, BETTER than other IU coaches have done since WWII, and not as good as a few coaches have pulled off in other circumstances.
I evaluate him based on OUR circumstances. OUR reality. Actual numbers. Actual rosters.
And his 2 year recruiting results have been excellent - especially if the meme is true (which I reject) about him needing to overcome shitty institutional commitment to football, lack of comparable facilities and the overwhelming Great Brohmbardi who won 6 rather than 5 in order to even get a kid to look at IU. (Seriously - out of Allen's 14 losses, 7 are 1 score or less. Our fans need to come in off the ledge!)
Finally, nobody “predicted” a breakout. That's the wrong word. They said that was what they wanted and they coach-spoke about it. Has nothing do with anything. Stop seizing on the pablum. Wilson said WIN NOW. So what? The roster is the roster. the schedule is the schedule. Hyperbole is fun. Reality requires a lot more. We are BUILDING a program. Base coaching evaluations on the things that matter, not marketing phrases.
I don't mind fair, valid and constructive criticism.
But the crap that has been the norm on this board this season is nothing but uninformed whining.
Brohm is a good coach.
He ain't the Jesus of Football.
So I bust their chops.
Does that make you a "hater"?
You have to make that call - not me.
. You lock up what you need to and then look for either gems that fell through, late bloomers, or juco/grad transfer. The there are even guys that didn't sign the early period and sometimes can't get signed because a class they committed to might have been filled so we get another oppty. Great stuff. 
