“Hi Darren. If Vance Joseph has the answers to fix us, how come he didn’t fix us when he was here? For those who say ‘He wasn’t head coach,’ I would ask so what? When the end was drawing near, why did he not go to Michael Bidwill and Steve Keim and say ‘I see these problems with the team, and these are the solutions.’ It’s a tough question, but it is a fair question.”
Well I don’t know how fair it is, and it does get frustrating when people make assumptions when they don’t do research. Let’s go back to when the “end was drawing near.” At that point, Steve Keim was already away from the team on leave. Second, Joseph, still under contract when Kliff Kingsbury was let go, was interviewed by the team for the head coaching vacancy that eventually went to Gannon. I would be willing to bet that whole conversation was about “I see these problems and these are my solutions.”
That’s to say nothing about the fact the roster looks completely different right now, or the fact that, no matter how you want to look at in, he was not head coach and didn’t have the power to do everything he wanted. Jonathan Gannon used to say the same thing; that there were things he saw as an assistant he wouldn’t have done and wanted to be a head coach to do it his way.