What will happen.
The team, enough talent, win enough to get a bid. Holly stays, gets an extension so that the young players can develop further.
The team, collapses, no bid. Holly makes passionate plea for one more year, youth excuse, assistant coaches replaced. Team improves slightly, makes bid next year, 8th seed or worse. Holly gets extension since she showed improvement.
Excuses built in.
Holly can't live up to unrealistic legacy of being a top 10 team, even though other top 10 teams are capable of accomplishing this task with less support and lesser players.
Fulmerites will defend his decision as being for the best, due to his broken heart over being fired and getting a huge payout to soften his landing for years.
Hollyites will say she was handpicked, must be good because Pat, who was suffering dementia or because she was a close friend, thought she could do it.
Sunshine pumpers will tell you who you gonna get, name the replacement who would come, as if ever coach who is more capable than her has been hired and would be unwilling to come here, meaning over 30 coaches are at their final destination dream job, or Tennessee doesn't have the money for one of the top female basketball programs to afford a coach, hard to believe either.
What should happen.
Holly fired, forced out, whatever you call it by end of weekend. Sharrona given the reins to see if she can coach as well as recruit. If she can, give her the job for another year. If she can't, go find someone who can. Waiting until the end of the year serves no purpose, teams fire coaches all the time and no one blinks an eye, however, at Tennessee, our fans believe it will cause some dramatic problem that cannot be overcome. The program needs a direction, it has not one. Name an interim, see what shakes out and go from there. There has to be at least 100 collegiate coaches and assistants who can do a better job and thousands of high school ones who could accomplish more. If you believe that Holly is in the top 100 of her profession, you are delusional. If it weren't for Pat naming her, she would never have gotten a job at a major program. How is that true? No one came for her before. Her only value was the soft shoulder for girls to cling to after Pat chewed butts. Without that strong leadership that CPS had, Holly's lack of it means the ship is without a rudder, waiting to crash. Please replace her before she does anymore damage. As such, I will no longer attend, or watch games until she is gone. It's not much, but it's my protest. I know I will not have to worry about missing out on any championship run to withhold that promise.