As we move away from the heavyweights and toward either a Belichick hire or a Tier 3 one, the men in the latter category will likely review fan base history along with all the other factors.
That would seem to me to mean that it is either Donovan as an interim Coach or a very cocky younger man who is either a Diamond in the Rough or just cocky. Whichever it is knows they are far from first choice for anyone associated with Carolina.
I’m at a loss in imagining who or what type of Coach could be hired without an already faction prepared not to like him and that will he poised to never be satisfied. Even with immediate success the impatience potential is high.
Can enough if our fan base stand up for a new Coach - Tier 3 - to hold at bay the haters (at least for the 5 or so years it might take to establish an acceptable pattern of coaching success?).