[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by jammies

If Gulutzman had been fired around Xmas, you'd have half a season with him and a half season without to use for a meaningful 'deep dive' that would actually compare success to failure, or failure to a different kind of failure, or whatever. Since that didn't happen, the only metric you need to consider insofar as keeping him or not is called "points", and they indicate he should go.

Further, you can replace the coach AND move players. You don't even have to do it all at the same time, you can start looking for a new coach right now and trade players in June, or July, or August - after you've consulted your new coach on what kind of players he wants on his team. If procrastinating is your process, your process is wrong.

Time has value, and it's better to make a sub-optimal decision quickly than the optimal decision when it's too late. There are 30 other GMs competing for the same resources you want, so if you can't make decent decisions on the basis of incomplete information, the guys who can are going to crush you.

So either fire the coach in the next week, or keep him for next season, but the worst decision you could possibly make is to keep him around (like Hartley) into May. If you don't already know if he's a problem - you're also a problem.

Wow, great post. Very eloquently stated and could not agree more. I tried to say something similar a day or two ago but it was a meatball ham fisted attempt at the English language.