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TG is not a good head coach at the BCS level.  If his teams’ had shown any competitiveness over the last two years, he would still have a job. The fans had given up after senieg historic (even by KU standards) losses, the inability to hold a lead, too many stupid penalties & decisions to count, and a HC who talked about his team’s positives as if the negatives didn’t exist.  He started out a press conference by noting the ways that the team had improved by saying that they lead the league in net punting as his first point.  You lost your audience after saying punt and he doesn’t connect to the fans.  Staying positive is great but being that way to the point of delusion isn’t.  He lost his first game to a DII school and his team looked fat & out of shape doing it.  The coach that he replaced had a winning record so that’s what people expected especially if you are going to be paid like a top coach.  I’m sure that the contract that he got exceeded his expectations and very few people turn money down but when you sign that type of contract, expectations come with it.  I’m sure that the school would prefer not to pay $6M to make him leave but they were going to lose much more than that via tickets and other revenue if he stayed.  If he’s so good at teaching the option, why didn’t he try to run it at KU?  He is the head coach and could run whatever offense that he wanted.  He had a fairly highly recruited dual threat QB that he announced as his starter his first year and benched him after a half before switching him to receiver.  He then played the pro style QB with no mobility nearly every game after that including all the blow outs this year.  He’d didn’t even try to fit his personnel to what he knew best. He had one winning season at Buffalo (8-6) but didn’t prove that he could win consisently as he had losing seasons in his other three years.The AD that hired Gill is gone but the chancellor who approved his hiring and the firing is the same.  The AD couldn’t do this without her buy in.  The chancellor could have kept him around another year but she choose not to so you can’t say it was just due to the AD wanting his own guy.  KU is better off making this decision, which is why that it was made.  It wasn’t to stick it to a NE guy or anything like that.  His playing at NE helped him get hired but didn’t mean anything at the end.  The world or even the football world doesn’t revovle around NE.  Sorry to break that news to some of you.  If Gill had been a KU alumn, it might have mattered but beyond that he could have played his college ball anywhere else and the result would be the same.Great man, great father, great husband, good recruiter, good assistant by most accounts, and I wish him well in the future, but he’s out of his league being the head guy.  He will never be a head coach at a BCS school again.