Because of our history, we usually put up with some really bad football far too long. I really don't have the answers as to whether CPR should be fired, but it's possible that putting up with losing football is part of why our history has been so poor. Chicken or the egg I guess.
I've started to come around to this way of thinking. Demanding results doesn't mean you will get them, but if you are going to be ok with where we are in year 5, why even bother.
We tried not putting up with bad football when we fired Mac in 06, but then we ended up with the disaster that was Chizik. I was thinking about this scenario the other night....if Rhoads was hired to replace Mac instead of Chizik, and had the exact same record as he has had in 5 years, I think he would be fired by now. His seat would have been getting hot after the Memphis embarrassment, and losing to UNI or the 70 points against Baylor would have been the last straw. But 5-19 made us happy to lose only 7 games a year.
I don't know that I want Rhoads fired, but the refusal to go for it on 4th and shorts today makes me feel like he's giving up. And there might not be anywhere else in the country where a coach can survive a 1-11 season five years in.