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You said we made the right move but history shows you don't know that. In fact we went downhill for a long time after firing RC.
Some firings are easy because there is lots of upside and little downside (Watkins) while others aren't as easy (Slocum). Your opinion doesn't get to determine if a firing was right or not, only history decides.
It's not the firing that history proves wrong. It's the hiring. What a coach might have done had he not been fired is pure speculation. Hiring Fran proved to be wrong, not firing RC.
I don't think you can say, in hindsight, that keeping RC and letting Sumlin be OC for a few years before taking over would for sure have been a successful move. Sumlin had valuable experiences at OU & as HC at UH before coming back to Texas A&M.
It's really, really hard for a head coach, once he digs himself a hole, to dig out of it. Especially in college football and especially in Texas. RC fell behind and couldn't catch up, how much of that was due to facilities I don't know, but certainly not entirely. That's certainly not why he struggled to beat tech. Mack Brown couldn't dig himself out of a hole, despite still taking the lion's share of the top talent in state.
If a coach is to dig himself out of a hole, he has to not be too prideful about the way he's been doing things and be willing to change.