No. You need a coach that fits what you want to do. I will argue that Hitch was way worse than Torts. As was AV. Talk about wasting/not playing talent. Oh, and talk about rosters fit to them? Lavy and Torts have had the most fun teams to watch in recent times, in my opinion.
Change for just the sake of change isn't always good either.
As has been mentioned, they have no idea what they're doing. Clarke gushed about how badly players would be treated when Torts was hired, so that's a part of their mindset. I don't think that's something we should be keeping around. That should be urgently changed.
We also know based on their actions and words for over a decade, they have a massive fetish about bluecollar play and defense while scorning skill and offense. That's directly contrary to the direction the league has gone in a decade. They also value wrong skillsets to even achieve what they want. All of it is in service to delusion.
Safe to say we can pretty effortlessly do better than Tortorella, and this is a thing I've pointed out for years before he was hired. It's been abundantly obvious the league has been trending fast away from Tortorella for a very long time. We aren't talking change for the sake of change, we are talking change for the sake of competing. Ridding ourselves of Tortorella is only one part of it. We need to rid the team of the whole management group, too.
"He's better than AV" is an absurdly low bar. He's also better than Eakins. Whatever, almost every coach and many assistants in the league meet those standards. I've always ever been interested in building a strong, contending team. I do not see how any of what has been going on accomplishes that. It does the opposite. It is the opposite of what is needed.
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