grizzlygrumpa said:On April 1 I posted in response to "moneyball" that the procedure used "smacked of the pflu treatment" i.e. the despicable high handed and inexcusable firing without cause of robin pflugrad. The whole aftermath of that has never been acknowledged ; not the Jordy Johnson trial and acquittal which then cost $250 000 in damage for his ordeal; the krakauer screed; the Stitt show; so one would think that when it came time to make this personnel decision Haslam would want to be as fair as he could and avoid any similar situation. The fact is he offered and she accepted a renewal of her contract and then he abruptly changed his mind i.e., "pulled the rug" . He was at least obligated to allow her 1 more year.
Wow I can see you're not biased in the least lol! You sir are officially nominated for idiotic post of the week. It would be truly dense to compare Shannon and Robin's situations as they are not in the least bit analogous. First and most importantly, Robin was a HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL head coach who had taken his team to the national semifinals a few months before his firing and had his team trending upwards. Pflugrad had Griz Nation's unquestioned support and most believed he would bring home a championship in the near future. Shannon, on the other hand, has taken a solid, but on the decline WBB program and made it substantially worse. I know Shannon very well personally and really like her, but there really is no doubt she did a piss poor job as HC and deserved to be fired. The fact is she had lost the confidence of the majority of her team. Additionally, Shannon's "focus" on her job rather than her social life was not all it should've been. If it had been anyone other than Shannon, she would have been let go long ago. The rash of player defections and her 1-7 record versus the Cats are no coincidence.