Mike Tice Job Status

-Arguments for keeping him

1. The Vikings have the poorest paid and one of the worse coaching staffs in the league. A one quarter difference the last couple seasons, and the Vikings could have won 2 NFC North titles. Tice hasn't had the Coaching Staff in place, other teams have had.

2. They didn't quit on him when they could have this season, and did make an effort to turn the season around. The last two seasons, he has been without major players in both of them.

-Arguments to go

-Are the Vikings that ended the 2002 season, any closer to the Super Bowl than the ones that ended the 2005. I know I am less optimistic now than I was then.

-6-10, 9-7, 8-8, 8-7 - This is four years of medicority.

-Ask yourself this question, do you see Mike Tice winning a Super Bowl, ask another question can you think of games the Vikings won because of superior coaching?

-Internal discipline whether fair or not, seems to be a problem for the Vikings.

_The teams the Vikings beat this year were all 5-10 or worse, except for the Giants who they beat in flukey circumstances.

Verdict: The Vikings need to upgrade thier coaching to win a Super Bowl. If the Vikings can't get anybody better than Tice, than so be it. But the progress wasn't there this year after he pinned it all on him.