I think judgements may be skewed by the length of tenure for each. We've had to sit through the same tired, lifeless crap from Shaka for five years now. It's simply excruciating at this point, while memories of Charlie have begun to fade. But if Charlie had stumbled through five years at Texas, with quite plausibly never having had a winning season, the disgust with him would have been white hot.
Shaka knows precisely what's wrong--the other teams are scoring more points than we are. That's why he's a "brilliant" coach.
He just hangs around waiting to see if that changes. Besides which he doesn't really care--he gets paid whether we win or not.
You seem to be missing the whole year 5 thing, the associated sustained lack of success, and the repeatedly unwatchable nature of the team under Shaka.
Uh... no.
Standing amid the dreary ashes of the men's basketball program at Texas, no one is asking for a coach who can overnight make us top 10, Big XII champions, or a Final Four team. We'd accept someone who can simply, IN YEAR FUCKING FIVE, field a team that doesn't look freakishly unfamiliar with the basics of successful basketball.
I don't think that's asking too much. I think any number of coaches not named Shaka could accomplish that.
Man, we are so far past that point. It's year 5 and our product looks like finger paint from a bunch of blind-folded kindergarden kids who were force fed Quaaludes.
God almighty. How does a program survive being like this?
Yep. We're a WTF offense. It's not built to succeed, so no matter who's playing we inevitably have these games where it's just indescribably excruciating to watch us. It's so random yet relentlessly ineffective.
Maybe that's Shaka's plan---play such a dreary, unwatchable brand of basketball that, after a while, the powers-that-be can't even bring themselves to think about our men's basketball team.
The extensions will just roll out on auto pilot.
You're just not taking the long view. If Jason had been allowed to complete his twenty-year process, we'd have been a process-oriented juggernaut.*
* Not that we'd actually have won a title, but we could explain why we hadn't better than anyone.
Because the passing game hasn't had to do that much. They can run and Baltimore has gagged the game away something fierce--3 turnovers and 3 failed 4th down attempts on the Titans side of the field.