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A "win in Omaha" is not really a metric to anyone other than the people who have made it their goal to get Childress fired and it's the only thing they have to hold onto.
There's a lot more to hold onto than just winless in Omaha. One SEC title, one legit CWS run which was ten years ago (2017 was more about who we got to play than about coaching), our regional competition doing better than us the last ten years (sips, TCU, Tech, Arky, LSU etc...) and usually being the ones to knock us out of the playoffs (Rice 07, 08, TCU 12, 15, 16, 17, sips 14) while we haven't knocked any of them save Houston out of the playoffs, usually being average in our conference. A win or two in Omaha doesn't change that we are most years mediocre and best years underachieving (2015 and 2016 come to
mind). We're not consistently competitive with good teams which is why we struggle with the post season. There's no randomness to it. 15 years of data show that the regression to the mean is mediocrity compared to our conference and regional peers.
The rational feelings of the "fire RC" crowd are that he's been given 16 years now to establish his program, hasn't developed a consistent top tier program while other peer programs have had good success and that somebody else should be given a chance.
RC is a good coach which is why we are never a terrible team but there's at least 15 coaches every year consistently better than him. Most of those coaches coach in the SEC or in our state so he is constantly exposed as being what he is, which is a good but not great coach.