If Indiana's red-ass, public spanking of the powerless and impotent team elite Ucla sent back to play them on their home field is taken properly, it will have signal effect on the program. It should unambiguously and loudly signal that Ucla's current organization can't produce a competitive football team in modern college football. That the organization created to provide that team is visibly in shambles, lying in pieces on the ground, underscores this is a permanent state. The enterprise is broken from the top to the bottom.
This weekend's disembowelment in Indiana will further weaken donor, administration and fan support for the current Ucla regime.
If so, the coach selection committee might have just seen a narrowing of their candidate pool. Afterall, what established or emerging top level coaching talent would willingly work for an AD who is so despised, knowing with growing certainty that the despised failure would soon be replaced? Why take a job with such limited visibility? It will cost Ucla a ton of money to fill in the hole of credibility they insist on digging for themselves so long as Jarmond is the AD.
The lead digger is Frenk. He must step up to fire Jarmond now so that the coach committee can morph into an AD committee which could then hire a FOOTBALL oriented AD (tough for an organization that swears itself to oppose toxic masculinity). Once the AD arrives, allow that person, the new boss and the one with direct line responsibility, to hire a great coach. Leaving Jarmond in place is like leaving the pathogen in the wound, it will never heal until properly cleaned.
The committee would do us a favor by recommending a beefed up role (and pay package) for a football GM who could be selected either by the new AD or coach. The purpose would be to wall off the program from Morgan Center and Ucla.
Since the option of a capital transaction with Ucla spinning off the team in a revenue share arrangement has been usurped by the B10's announcement that they will pursue this for themselves, complete independence from Ucla now looks infeasible for the Bruin football team.
The next best option would be to isolate the football team in its own "skunkworks" format and have it treated as an independent subsidiary. The time is well past that football deserves to be treated as just another sport alongside all the non-revenue sports that it funds. Acknowledge the real business economics of college football and give the team its own management talent.