Well, I certainly hope you look at your children much differently than you look at Marshall Football otherwise, you're a shitty parent.
Well, that feels like a personal attack, the kind made by a person who is coming from a losing position.
The analogy isn't as bad as you pretend. If you care about something or someone and recognize it is showing destructive behavior, you have a duty to try and correct the destructive behavior, help them understand that they, through their actions, are ruining the thing you care about.
John doesn't lose games because, as the administration would like to believe, he has all these disadvantages. It's actually the opposite, he wins games because he has been given many advantages. The issue is that, even with all these advantages bestowed upon him, he is diluting the program and its future by putting a team on the field that is often ill prepared and poorly motivated. There is simply no way that talent is the issue. A team good enough to beat FAU, WKU and La Tech is good enough, if properly prepared and motivated, to beat MTSU and Charlotte.
John is stubborn and lacks the ability to be introspective. It was really all summed up when he took the job, he had a plan and that plan was infallible. The problem is that he believes that even when the plan is failing, be it in overall program direction or a plan for a specific game. This inability to adapt to a situation right in front of him, i.e. lack of ability to adjust, is why he has, and will continue, to underperform. He's not going to change.
So you can continue to support him (at the cost of the program) and be happy with his inability to achieve success and to be just good enough, but I'm not going to do that. John is right that Marshall is not your average school, the program does mean more to the community than most anywhere else. That's not just due to the crash, it's because it is a source of pride and inspiration in an otherwise depressed area that is the constant butt of jokes over everything from physical traits to poverty. We need the program to be great, not just good enough.