re: Matt Campbell - is now the time and would we want him?

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We currently get our arse beat with no nice wins in between so I don’t see how it would be that big of an issue. Not immediately at least.

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The frick does this even mean? It's like when everyone talks about how Pittman was just here to "right to ship," "form stability," "stop the bleeding." OK, then what? We made a hire who we planned all along to fail? We made a hire we planned on outgrowing? And who decides when that is? We've all had enough in year four, and there's no guarantee he's even getting fired this year. Some of us were tired after year three. Four years and we're right back to the "well, we just need someone to get us going in the right direction again" conversation we were in after 2019.

Why can't we just make a solid hire? Why does winning have to be done in painful installments? No other SEC fanbase seems to have this mindset and it's embarrassing. Just make a hire that adds up on paper, and scrap him in a timely manner if it turns out to be a bust. This "stopgap" horseshite is just the narrative fans are buying because we feel powerless and it gives us the illusion of forward progress and like things are still on track in some way. Coaches like Sam Pittman and Chad Morris are the coaching versions of a 20-year-old beater car you spend 2K on in five payments. We're going to keep getting back and forth to work and home, and trading it in for another beater every year. Before too long, you've sank more money than you would have if you just bit the bullet and spent money on something halfway decent.