that means you want me to dissect why your use of the term "exonerate" is not only more than out of place for the context of the situation of a college basketball coach, his team and their Won/Loss record but beyond the place where Coach Mike Young is in terms of what he is responsible for and what his team is responsible for.

ex·on·er·ate
/iɡˈzänəˌrāt/
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verb
verb: exonerate; 3rd person present: exonerates; past tense: exonerated; past participle: exonerated; gerund or present participle: exonerating

1.
(especially of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case.
"they should exonerate these men from this crime"

. Maybe, just maybe the expectations from both the outside of the program as well as the inside of the program were higher than they should have been. Is that a CRIME?? A crime that needs to be considered for exoneration? I would posit NO, For Christ sake would rather have a Coach and basketball program or any team and program within your alma mater take the easy road and say,
"Guess what?" "We aren't sure how good we will be this year. We'll try but you know maybe well be good or maybe we won't. I'm not sure so let's just give it a try and hey, team don't worry about any higher goals, we'll be what we'll be and that should be fine."
If that's where you want the coach and program of any sport within the university to be, I'm glad I'm not there with you cause that would suck.

So....there you go. I didn't need to but I got over myself since you told me to.