I dont really care who is responsible for his personal issues, we are all adults and we make our decisions. What I do care about is if the consequences of those decisions have such a negative impact on your job performance that your results fall well below reasonable expectations. I expect a competent O Line. I expect the team to be better disciplined than 135th of 136 in penalties. I expect the run game to be better than dead last in the conference.
He has at minimum a top 5 NIL payroll and he's around the 5th highest paid coach in college football. He's received everything he needs to meet reasonable expectations, yet this season has been a failure. That isn't gossip mongering tmz talk. That is he wasted an entire season and its not hard to connect the dots that his personal life is part of the reason why. Im a pretty easy going guy, but when you let an easily avoidable grenade go off inside a gargantuan organization, I no longer trust you to fulfill the expectations of the job and I'd like to move forward with someone else.