Since I synthesized all of the complaints about Dan Mullen into a single frame at the beginning of October, I’ve been seeing everything through it. In that piece I talked about building up margin for error, but it’s essentially the same thing as “maxing out” or “ceiling strategy”. It comes down to this: is a given head coach doing everything he possibly could to make his program better?
I’ll admit it’s partially that I’ve long since internalized the Hypercritical ethos, that nothing is so perfect that it can’t be complained about. The list of head coaches who do everything well enough that there is slim room for complaint is very short.