Gus staying and Kelly going - neither should be a surprise.

 

If you didn't see a Jim Harbaugh-esque breakup being inevitable, then you weren't paying attention.

 

Or, maybe just drinking the "Chip Juice."

 

He made his bed when he made all the stupid personnel moves.  "Genius" was proven the opposite.  The only way he was going to keep his job after that was if by some miracle it all somehow worked out well (defying all logic) and there ended up being a method to explain the madness.

 

But in the end, reality came crashing down and his method was proven to be merely madness.

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