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Originally Posted by bax
Personally, I think hiring a rookie head coach for a roster with this many established vets is a big enough risk in itself.
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But as every talking head in this city will tell you, the guy has been in this organization forever. He was the safest pick they could have made, a known quantity that runs through all of the "mushy middle" finishes and overt displays of being thoroughly outcoached when it matters. Not only that, we're getting indications that Edwards once again wanted whoever would come in cheap above all else.
It's the rationale behind the hiring that's concerning, not some expectation of immediate performance. Nobody was coming into a team so committed to a mediocre core on the wrong side of 30 and lighting the world on fire. It signals that nothing is going to fundamentally change with the way this organization operates, which has implications for future success that run far deeper than just Huska.