With the firing of Jeff Cassar on everyone’s minds again owing to the hiring of Mike Petke in his stead, a big question keeps coming up: Why now? Why not later? Why not earlier?
There’s not an easy answer to any of these questions, but previous interviews with RSL general manager Craig Waibel helps lay out the rationale.
When saying there was no “smoking gun” in regard to Cassar’s firing, Waibel said on March 20 it was a lack of progress from the start of preseason that was the damning factor.
We’ve been in since January 20, and we’ve been evaluating since day one.