Creep, it boils down to firing a coach after one season being worse for the program than LIFPO for another, full, year.
Dude didn't even get 12 months and walked into a situation not many ever have.
I honestly don't disagree with that. The play call at the Apple Cup was painful, but every coach makes shitty calls.
I think there is a world in which your LIPO point can co-exist with UW not trying hard enough to keep KDB. KDB underwhelming, which I enjoyed btw, can be viewed in context and it's not crazy to think he'd continue to be successful here where it's possible he's a bad fit down there. At any rate, as well as he did here, UW had an obligation to bust their ass to keep him and all indications are that they didn't. You have to make him say no, I want to go to Alabama no matter what you offer.
But Fisch did not walk into an ideal situation. I'm on record many times that year 1 is a sort-of pass unless the guy makes it obvious in year one that he ain't it, which happens. I wouldn't say that happened with Fisch, though, again, Cuog is a bit bothersome.