So Tom Arth goes to a JUCO and provides Dollard with an FBS college scholarship and the kid earns a starting role. When he gets arrested the first time, does Arth kick him off the team? No, he lets him remain on the team while he works his way back through the University’s disciplinary protocols. All the while Arth praises Dollard for doing the right things so he can return and petitions the disciplinary board for his return. After 8 months in limbo and a semester plus summer session work in the classroom, Dollard returns for one day of practice and goes down to Kent and fucks up again. Finally, Arth kicks him off the team right? Wrong, most likely he would have kept him but GUTHRIE dismissed him.
And this is Arth’s failure to guide him down the right path? I am in favor of removing Arth or any coach based on his won-loss record but his only failure with Dollard was not his “interaction” with the kid (re: support at every turn), but not having the balls to kick him off the team instead of the AD!
IMO, the next hire will be a minority, I just hope it’s based on the individual’s coaching success ie. a David Shaw or Mel Tucker and not the belief that only a black coach can guide at risk kids down the right path.