Photo and Garbanjo, I'll buy that brand of rationale.
It represents a difference of opinion between reasonable people.
However, that was NOT the nature and tone of the discourse previously from other posters who know who they are...
Rather, the clearly predominant assertion was "Kayo is not so smart, he doesn't know what he's doing (, etc., etc.)"
They are the targets of my call-out, obviously. At least where this issue is/was concerned, they have been shown to be the real idiots.
Having said that, I would still argue with the brand of rationale... one either takes a
student-athlete-first perspective to the situation or you take a
university-first perspective.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if you do the former, you act immediately in the interest of the student-athlete. In this case, that means, you evaluate the situation and take action accordingly.
If you take the latter, you might even choose to not let them out of their LOI period... or, you do as you've suggested... you make the student-athlete wait a few weeks until you've hired a new coach.
Here's an aspect that really should change your mind about this whole thing: Pray tell, what if the eventually-hired coach doesn't really want a player? What then?
Then, you've not only forced the player to wait a few weeks, but if that becomes the situation, you've complicated the player's life in a more substantial way since schools that might have recruited them have committed to offering to other players (... sure, they could hold Marshall to the LOI, but how is that a good idea if they're not really wanted?).
Only in the instance of having a player who, clearly and certainly, a new coach will want to have would I personally, were I the AD, choose to delay--yes, I am a little selfish if, say, a Patrick Patterson or OJ Mayo or Bill Walker were involved.
But even in that case, if the player himself said, "Look, I want out, and I don't care who the new coach is, cause I've got an offer to play at an SEC school that's more appealing to me than playing for any new coach you'd bring in..." I say, I'd have to let him go.
(Implication: Change that to Big 10, and refer to Pringle, Stanley.)
No, I just can't agree with the University-first perspective. If you don't put the student first (assuming that the student has done nothing wrong themselves), your school deserves the bad rep they'll have earned.
If that's so, the one would assume as you have pointed out above, that the kids were not CUSA material or not willing to come here anyway. Were that the case, why the desire to keep Jirsa.
Kayo doesn't always make the right call... and maybe he doesn't even hardly ever make the right call.
On
this one, though, he made the right call.