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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
You can't look at it in terms of being analytical. The court of public opinion is almost always based on panache. The only rational reason anyone would be upset with this hire, which I'm not, is because it took an incredibly long time to complete and ended up where it could have if completed on day one. People inherently begin to expect big things when processes such as this take much longer than the norm. Hence a blah hire.
I don't think any fan can honestly say they are overjoyed with the hire. The guy obviously checks off lot of the boxes the franchise was looking for but we've all been through a ton of these hires as Flames fans that don't work out. I approach the move with cautious optimism because this regime has proved it is willing to go against the grain when it has to and it has worked relatively well thus far.
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Did it?
Was Treliving supposed to be looking for a coach during the season while he still had one employed (who they could have realistically kept, despite the bad season) and have interviewed multiple candidates before letting him go?
I'm not sure what people were expecting. A little over a month to decide who you want steering the direction of your team, and whose tenure will reflect your own? It seems like a reasonable amount of time to me.