
This is one reason management isn’t quick to fire Mike.
You see stuff like this all throughout college football: programs spend big money to fire someone and their entire staff, then hire a brand-new staff. This happens, and the new staff doesn’t do any better than the previous one while they are paying essentially two coaching staffs for the next five years and NIL. That’s the nightmare scenario: you fire Mike and still end up being 6–6 or 7–5 next year.