Go look at how many teams made the change because it wasn’t quite the success they wanted but it was still good. I give you Nebraska as exhibit A and Colorado as Exhibit B. Both had coaches a couple decades ago who were solid, not great (following great coaches at those schools) and both canned their coaches only to hire failures and drove them into the pits. I think Michigan State falls into this category, Auburn certainly does, and so does Florida.
You don’t fire a proven commodity and a great coach because of one down season and mismanaged QB situation. That is reactionary and bad leadership and the surest way for us to become Maryland and be largely irrelevant for the forseeable future. And even though we are in a bit of a more positive situation with Scalley, there’s no guarantee he’ll carry on the Whittingham success.