Friday, May 14, 2004
Point / Counter-Point
Mike DeCourcy thinks Missouri should fire Quin Snyder. Gregg Doyel thinks Snyder should stay. Who's right?They both might be. Because neither's opinion is as absolute as I earlier suggested. Doyel argues Missouri's violations were not as egregious as initially suspected.
After investigating the Missouri Tigers men's basketball program for months, the most damaging bit of evidence the NCAA could produce was a phone bill?
He never once calls for Snyder to coach next year's club -- though a reasonable reader assumes it is Doyel's unstated assumption. DeCourcy doesn't disagree. He doesn't argue the NCAA's findings were significant. Rather he believes the mere cloud of uncertainty - and untruthfulness - surrounding Missouri for the past 18 months is fair grounds for dismissal of a mediocre coach.
Where Snyder as successfull as Bob Huggins, DeCourcy would keep him on. But given Quin's inability to develop players (Arthur Johnson, Rickey Paulding and Jimmy McKinney) or field Big 12 regular season title contenders, DeCourcy wants him gone. In other words:
Snyder might own coaching talent, but he has not presented enough evidence to counter the weight of his program's failures.
