Who is NCJacket? Is he an AD that has hired or fired an assistant from under a head coach? If not, he has no more knowledge than you or I that an AD has hired or fired a coach. His is only an opinion and is no better than mine, Stateline, or Dave Tech's opinion.
That is more hilarious than you might think! This is true because NCJacket says it is true.
A person's opinion does not prove anything. It does not make a statement true if everyone on the board agrees on one item, and one person takes exception to it. It must be proven. Most of the world in the time of Columbus thought the world was flat, but Columbus beleived and gambled that it was round.
There have been many people in the minority, but that does not make them wrong.
However, my opinion appears to be backed up more by the lack of "ANY" cases ever having been aired or documented where the AD fired or hired an assistant over the objection of the head coach in college. I feel confident most any coach would quit or be fired over that kind of activity.
So, NCJacket's response is exactly the same as Stateline and Dave Tech, smoke, because none of the three have any proof that an AD has ever hired or fired an assistant when the head coach said no.
I still hold to my original opinion, which is the AD may indeed tell the coach he has to either be released or let certain assistants go. I still hold to my original opinion that the head coaches make the final decisions.
Would I ever want an AD to select or fire an assistant over the onjection of the head coach? The answer is no! Since part of a head coach's job is matching his coaching style with his assistants, the firing and selection should be his choice.
If he does not know how to select good assistants, his coaching will suffer, and he will ultimately be canned. That is the way it should be.
I wonder who will hire or fire the assistants for the Vanderbilt coach?