I respect your opinion. I too do not understand why he never pulled the starter and gave TS a shot in some of those games in which we struggled.
To you and me and so many others, it seems crystal clear that he should have.
But, there was a reason(s) he didn't and I have to respect he knew some things none of us did. He's coached more football games in many seasons other than last year and that collective experience led him to ride it out without the #2 in those games.
And, even as we would sometimes remind ourselves with CNS. No coach is perfect. CKD might have been wrong just like CNS was wrong about personnel decisions.
But without rehashing the whole discussion, CKD must've believed it was a dynamic that was bigger than simply subbing TY.
And lest we forget, CNS made the same decision the year before and did the very same thing All YEAR LONG, except for the game that shall not be named in South Florida.
In his first year in Tuscaloosa, Saban did it as well. Not at the QB position, but at a bunch of others.
He knew there were some thugs and locker room cancers, knew who they were, and wanted to get rid of them. But he couldn't clean house because (1) he had to field a team, and (2) back then, such a move would have laid waste to the APR....which would have led to major scholarship reductions which would have adversely affected the only way to fix the problem -- recruiting the right guys.
That said, I too wonder why DeBoer didn't give Simpson a meaningful chance when it would have mattered.
He saw what we all saw, yet he made the personnel decisions he did. But the man's not stupid and he didn't suddenly forget how to manage a roster when he stepped into the Mal Moore Building. So even though I don't know what that reason was, I have to believe he had good grounds to do what he did.
I'm not going to re-hash the last 6 months conversations. Many of us think we know the issue(s). But too often, human nature is to assume that we have all the facts. When we may not. Someday, both the sequence of events and the depth of the problem(s) will be public.
It'll be interesting to see how close our discussions came to identifying all that and whether we did indeed have all the facts. Or not.
Side Note:
Stop the inanity (not a typo). I don't care who said what, using what tone, about whose mama first. Stop with the back and forth sniping.
Debate all you want. Take any side you want. But if you can't disagree in a professional manner, don't post.
