We'd underachieved in a couple of tournaments and I'm sure that's what drove the decision. I joined other Sun Devil fans in blaming him for the disappointments so at the time I was thrilled when we replaced him with Weinhauer. Bob had taken over at Penn from Chuck Daly and had great success there including a surprise trip to the Final Four a year or two a year or two before we hired him.
That whole experience taught me the folly of just blaming negative outcomes on the Coach or the Manager. It clearly isn't always that simple. But after parting ways with Wulk, we were never even a pretender again despite momentary positive glimpses. And as a result of that era I rarely engage in coach bashing although Monty with the Suns was a rare exception for me. The simple truth, or maybe it's just my simple understanding of the truth, is that the Coach is almost always everyone's favorite scapegoat but often not the real problem.
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