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CP: And that's wouldn't have been an option, would it?
Taylor: I am just telling you what I said to Flip. I asked, Do you want to
come back? And he said, I just think too many things have happened now. Thank
you for asking. No, I will not come back under any circumstances. That has
never been reported, and I just wanted to say that.
So, getting back to Casey. Firing a coach is not an easy thing for me, and it
is consistent with me on all my businesses. Good people go through difficult
things from time to time, and they make mistakes. But I don't give up on good
people. Now I realize that, like politics, this business is a little
different. If players give up on somebody, you have to do something. But I
know in my businesses, if I have to give up on my leader, that is a very
difficult time. When Kevin replaced Flip, that wasn't just a snap decision or
one conversation. We talked to the players and talked to different people.
I am not mad at Flip. Things worked out. He got a really good job in Detroit.
Now when you are asking about Dwane, if it goes that way, it will start
quietly with conversations. Flip acted like it was a surprise and I was like,
Flip how can you act like that? It wasn't a surprise. And I don't think I
would do it that way to Dwane either. If it really goes bad, it is going to
be a mutual thing. And then we will be in a predicament, because Randy said
he didn't want to come here if it was to replace Dwane. If we ever had to
fire Dwane, does that mean we couldn't replace him with Randy?
None of that stuff has been talked about. We don't have a [contingency] plan
at all in that way. We are really pleased that he brought some other
assistants in, and we are confident that he can do the job. But he has to
prove it. I told him last year I was disappointed. And he is man enough to
say he got too much under pressure and should have taken more risks.
With Flip, we never really asked what he was going to do and what he
expected, because he always was doing pretty well. But publicly I just want
to defend Kevin a little bit when it comes to Flip. Kevin did not run the
team and tell Flip to do this or that. As a matter of fact, Kevin backed off
a little bit. Early on, Kevin was really involved in running the team. But he
and Flip were so close that every night at half time, those guys would sit
down and talk. It became more difficult as it went along and Kevin gave him
suggestions. Flip felt more confident as the coach and Kevin backed off.
But I don't think it got better for Flip when Kevin backed off. I heard
conversations where Kevin would say, "But Flip, that team had you figured
out, and they were doing this and this." Later Flip would usually say, "we
watched the film and Kevin was right." And sometimes Kevin would say, I never
would have done what Flip did during that game, but it worked. They were
pretty honest even when they disagreed, is what I am saying.
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