New coach, same dysfunction. Fresh paint on the same broken house

Moore/Poggi: Why Coaching Transitions Are Just Administrative Theater

When Moore left and Poggi arrived, the local media treated it like surprise news. Paige treated it like administrative theater. Which it was.

New coach. Same dysfunction. Different branding. Same broken machinery. Shinier paint job.

She’d seen this movie before. She’d filed the memos. She knew how it ended. Because coaching transitions aren’t about strategy. They’re about institutional damage control and the careful narrative construction that allows universities to claim they “made the right choice” while secretly hoping nobody remembers the last three years.

Amy Schumer once said: “I’m the most honest person in comedy because I complain about legitimate grievances.” Paige brought that honesty to coaching analysis. The grievances are everywhere. The dysfunction is constitutional.

The genius of her coverage? She understood that every coaching transition is a reset button that doesn’t actually reset anything. It’s just a chance for administrators to take credit for solving a problem they created.

Moore to Poggi wasn’t news. It was institutional theater with a new script but the same plot.

Auf Wiedersehen, amigos.