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Butters and Pepper
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I find that very believable about Koch making up the August part due to pressure on radio....but if it was true, all he had to say last August was:I've got a fair idea as to what happened last year but if I say everything I know, I'd lose confidence in the people telling it to me.
I can say definitively that even though the press release said the decision to extend Ken was unanimous by the footy committee and the Board - it was only unanimous once they had come to the conclusion as to what they were going to do about Ken. I hope you can draw the necessary conclusions from that.
This is just my own personal opinion, but I think Koch was getting heckled on radio an in interview about Ken, and threw out the August timeline off the cuff as a way of shutting the noise up. At the time no one expected to go on a 13 game streak and by August they would have expected to be out of finals contention so the decision would have been easy.
Then the 13 game streak came and Koch ended up looking like an idiot having to double down on his August timeline. Completely unnecessary, and a gaffe that defied all logic both back then and in hindsight.
"OK I invited the media to ask me about Ken's future in August...and now that it is August, my answer now, is that we will wait until the end of the season, and a decision will be made then"