Regardless of who is eventually named coach, I will have permanently lost hope for this franchise if Baalke is retained as general manager. It's difficult to know which rumors regarding the head coach search are true, but the almost unanimous hate for Baalke is impossible to ignore. If he continues as general manager, Khan will have proven that those who considered him incompetent as an owner were 100% correct. When he fired Meyer, I had hope that he'd start listening more to the right people, but this whole coaching search fiasco tells me my optimism was not justified.

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