Tom I agree that it will be tough for the university to swallow his salary if they fired him now.
That being said, I think your characterization of the fans having a knee jerk reaction could not be much more inaccurate. Some on here reacted that way immediately, but many of us, the most die hard fans have given it two and a half years and we have seen absolutely zero improvement in the teams performance. Some of the fans that seem to agree that Hewitt is part (if not most) of the problem are long term and generally very positive fans (like Pablo, Gemini, me. It seems as Jollay is frustrated with him as well. Even Expat agrees he is a problem if he doesn't see that he needs to go yet).
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I would like someone to convince me to still have hope for Hewitt. I am open to it. I used to be the one that went around trying to pump people up about Hewitt, or at least have them give him a fair shake. I know it is no one's responsibility to do so, but you would think there would be a good argument out there by those that still feel he is the solution and like to debate things on here. I just don't really see anyone providing much of a defense that can explain away the tornado of problems we have run into and not come to the conclusion that we need new leadership.
So, if our coach is part of the problem, and by extension, not part of the solution, the talk needs to stop being about whether or not the administration breaks down wins the way we fans do. It needs to be about making sure the administration sees that he is an issue, sooner, rather than later.
