Akina was an idiotic hire likely meant to be some familiarity unit for Nansen. He lorded over the worst tackling era from defensive backs I've ever seen at Texas. Herman and Strong tried to surpass Akina in complete tackling ineptitude and couldn't manage it. Akina gets here and we're instantly tackling poorly in the defensive backfield and taking shitty angles. Maybe that's circumstantial. PK has been a lot of things, but he's never had bad tackling in the secondary since he's been at Texas. PK relinquished control over the back end and tackling has gotten gradually terrible this season.
What happened to the secondary against Vanderbilt cannot be excused by young, inexperienced players. That was an overt display of a poorly coached unit. They had no concept of responsibility. They were food. That single performance was so bad that it would be perfectly reasonable to dismiss Akina right now. If you don't want to be shitty for the sake of optics, then let him finish the season and be gone. But a serious program with serious goals doesn't allow that guy a second chance to do that. Nothing he suggests in a meeting should be taken seriously for the rest of this season.