If I understand you correctly, the main reason you'd fire Tyndall now is that you don't want the NCAA around the football team. Your assumption is that even if Donnie gets off lightly, they'll be all over our programs, some kind of guilt by association or location, e.g., the football and basketball programs are under the same AD, so if the NCAA is hawking the BB program, they might find something on the football program and go after them.
It seems to me that Auburn took exactly that risk when they hired Bruce Pearl. He hadn't even completed pretty much the worst penalty a coach can receive, a multi-year show cause. But they hired him and put their full support behind him (both fans and administration). I don't think this is some kind of short-term or desperation move on their part - looks like a well thought out strategy to me. What do you think of their strategy? Too risky?
Do you know of another program that fired a coach in one sport to prevent the NCAA from investigating a different sport?
It seems to me that Auburn took exactly that risk when they hired Bruce Pearl. He hadn't even completed pretty much the worst penalty a coach can receive, a multi-year show cause. But they hired him and put their full support behind him (both fans and administration). I don't think this is some kind of short-term or desperation move on their part - looks like a well thought out strategy to me. What do you think of their strategy? Too risky?
Do you know of another program that fired a coach in one sport to prevent the NCAA from investigating a different sport?
