Iain MacIntyre

And it was Linden who, I think it was about a month after he came on the job, announced that he would in fact be changing coaches.

But there was sort of a, to me, a sort of a pragmatic and also professional courtesy

Involved in letting, letting the new, and in that case, you know, technically Lyndon was president, but he hired Benning.

And at that time they were making these decisions together as, as was Rutherford and Alvin and a lot of their early decisions.

You know, at that time there was this courtesy to, you have a coach in place.

let him basically have a chance to apply for the job or speak about the job.

There was no sense in firing people if it turns out maybe they would have been the right person.

Now, again, I just used the word pragmatic.

To be pragmatic about this, typically the new GM will want his own coach, but it's not a slam dunk that he will.

And the fact that

It seems to us the leading candidate is from within the organization.

Maybe there's parts of the coaching staff that Ryan Johnson would want to keep.

So I don't think myself the scattergun approach of everything was bad, so let's get rid of everyone and start from ground zero.

I mean, I think that can work under the right circumstances.

But in this case, again, I have more confidence in Rutherford and

to choose a GM, which is the next step, and then let that GM choose his coach rather than leaving all of this to ownership at this time.

Well, I think job one, and this is

I don't mean to dodge the question or just be vague about it, but job one is really just set this rebuilding course.

Like, what is this actually going to look like?

You know, Rutherford has said that he thinks this can be a quick turnaround, and he said when he made the Hughes trade within a couple of years, obviously everybody would love that to be the case, but you don't want to set up a false goal where...