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Too little Too late firing Crossman. April has been nabbed

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While I am just speculating here, this last second move by Fox may be a sign of things to come. April has been available for two weeks and it was widespread news that he has been interviewing with other teams. Yet Fox waits until Wed. to finally give him a call and fire Crossman too little too late. Fox is a lame duck coach right now and most have agreed that he was pissed with Richardson's choice to not extend him and be free to look for other jobs. I think this is an example of a lackadaisical attitude he is assuming and it could spell big problems for us.

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Why would April be interested in a position with a coach who has a likely chance of being gone after next year? Maybe he wants to stay in the NE. Everyone makes assumptions it's becuase of some Fox consipiracy to doom the team or becuase he's incompentant. Think about it from April's vantage point as well.

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Why would April be interested in a position with a coach who has a likely chance of being gone after next year? Maybe he wants to stay in the NE. Everyone makes assumptions it's becuase of some Fox consipiracy to doom the team or becuase he's incompentant. Think about it from April's vantage point as well.
fox called him....after he signed the deal with the eagles. fox waited until too late. fox spent too long trying to make a decision on crossman...something that should have been made well before the season ended. something that could have been decided on in the past two weeks easily.

would we have gotten april? who knows? the fact is we can never know because fox waited to pull the plug.....again.

about that one year deal...that would be the same in most situations. who is going to give anyone a deal longer than a year when the owners are looking at a lockout in a year? very little reason to believe the panthers would give him less of a deal than anyone else.

there could be a whole slew of reasons why he wouldn't come here but none of that matters now. he won't be here. thanks, fox, for waiting until too late to make the move you should have.

so....now we deal with the next best available options. off to mr. scot's thread we go.

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You guys are clueless if you think we could have nabbed April. Why do you think one of the top asst coaches would takea job on a staff where the HC only has 1 year on his contract.
wouldn't say clueless...unrealistic? maybe. unlikely? probably. point is that fox waited too long to find out one way or another. you don't know unless you try and fox waited to long to give the panthers a shot.

kind of a resounding theme throughout his tenure here. if he has an emotional attachment to someone, he's going to give that more weight in his decisions than the greater good of the team.

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You guys are clueless if you think we could have nabbed April. Why do you think one of the top asst coaches would takea job on a staff where the HC only has 1 year on his contract.

on top of that.....why would he want to take a job where the cabinet is so bare. There is not much to work with right now in Carolina.....Philly has got some great talent for ST right now.

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While I am just speculating here, this last second move by Fox may be a sign of things to come. April has been available for two weeks and it was widespread news that he has been interviewing with other teams. Yet Fox waits until Wed. to finally give him a call and fire Crossman too little too late. Fox is a lame duck coach right now and most have agreed that he was pissed with Richardson's choice to not extend him and be free to look for other jobs. I think this is an example of a lackadaisical attitude he is assuming and it could spell big problems for us.

To me, this screams of a JR move. I find it very coincidental that the same week in which Fox meets with Richardson, Crossman (who Fox is very close with) is let go. I'm also speculating, but it just feels like this move was initiated by JR, not Fox.

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