Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

Now that the Bama Nation is being held hostage by the Almighty Powers That Be at the University: Moore, Witt, and Portera, isn't it time to really evaluate the process used to evaluate the performance of a coaching staff?

Let's start with the hiring of Shula.

Moore recommends, Witt swallows, and Portera laps it up.

Shula's hired.

First, no head coaching experience. Second, already fired from one job for the same offenses ( or lack of an offense) that have resonated all season long at Bama, Shula's inexperience has grown increasingly worse with each year.

Now, if you are the supervisor or even CEO of a business that has put a totally inexperienced person into such a vaunted position as the head football coach at Alabama, wouldn't you periodically evaluate his and his staff's performance BEFORE the end of the first season? So why are we just now after four seasons starting to say, you know Mike, maybe we better change a coach or two?

Truthfully, unless you want to lose a huge chunk of the Alabama fans, you better change more than a coach or two.

Perhaps the real question is, shouldn't we be evaluating the lack of oversight by Moore, Witt, and Portera these last four years?

You see, the hole is dug. Shula has lost the confidence of the average Bama fan. Changing the coaching staff is now more difficult because how will you get any credible coach (hopefully Coaches) to come on board a rudderless and sinking ship whose captain refuses to change his course and is facing a dubious future? What players are willing to commit to a team that is sinking faster than the Titanic?

Moore, Witt, and Portera, there's your legacy. Hope you can live with it.