I was referring more to some of the newspaper editorials, as well as the Houston airwaves, where there was a combination of furious callers for weeks and weeks, plus the steady diet of condescending chatter from the talking heads who seemed to feed the fury for their own purposes. You're always going to have the former; it's the latter that was more surprising. Matt Jackson's understandable; it's his school and he loves it. Some of the other guys, though, both national and local, thought it was an impossible task and a career ender. Can't say as I can find fault with that forecast, as only one of the former coaches post-Teaff is still in the D1 ranks--Kevin Steele, the caring nurturer, who is on the Clemson staff.
No big deal. I have always felt that if a coach leaves your program in a better competitive position than it was when he started, he's usually done a very good job--that includes the avoidance of NCAA scrutiny and penalties.
