This. Dude just isn't the guy. At this point, its not a matter of if, but when. The sooner the better.
I agree he’s not ultimately the guy, but that doesn’t mean “the sooner” is “the better.” Absent a plan, and capacity to improve the head coach this year, it could be sooner is absolutely worse when you at least have someone of Mullen’s level.
This is a bit of an alteration on the Solfa hire defense in the first place. He may not be who we need long term, but is he right for now. I adamantly disagreed with not swinging for a HR then (I thought that was Frost and we will never know if he would have killed it here, as his background was as close to Urban as we've seen).
Now, though, you have to know/strongly believe you are making a marked upgrade because we are at least stabilizing ourselves from the laughing stock we were for 8 years. A strong likelihood of an upgrade is a narrow pool even if you attack Mullen often (as I do).
I don’t see the out that makes sense today. But, I believe we should be looking/constantly monitoring and realizing we need an upgrade when that upgrade becomes available (opposed to waiting for a total sh!tshow of a season and bottoming out). The market should decide our next move, not our performance per se.
The problem is our AD and boosters won’t be this cut throat and we will need to linger and will be responsive to our poor performance, not active in upgrading to someone proving excellence elsewhere.
TLDR:
Once again, with these massive buyouts you DO NOT fire a coach until you have their replacement lined up. When dafuq will these folks figure this out?