the most direct answer would be:
a.) he's the guy that has to replace THE GUY (who had left the roster about as stacked as possible)
b.) he started off on just about the worst possible foot after his first 2 games
c.) he turned a team that had experienced a 5 year run of really good basketball into a team that didn't reach .500...
d.) to compound that, this was a team that about 95% of UNT fans were expecting to be, one of, if not our best ever
when you take those items and throw in the fact that his start this year was less than stellar, most fans, myself included, have just shut down and waited for him to be canned...
if he was in a different scenario, he might have been the right guy, but he walked into a very tough scenario and didn't produce immediately, which is what was needed