"Well done, Bucs general manager Mark Dominik. Congratulations, Bryan and Joel, and, OK, we'll throw in Ed Glazer, too. You've hired your football guy, Greg Schiano.

Great job, fellas, bold, risky, all that.

Now: Leave him alone.

Stay out of his way, except when he needs something. Then go and get it for him.

This is Schiano's deal, not yours. How Dominik survived the recent purge is a mystery until you realize how much he sold the Glazers' idea when it came to the nonsensical notion that you can construct a football team entirely of draft picks, youth and more youth, the very formula that helped sink Raheem Morris.

And this coaching change won't mean anything unless there is a re-commitment on the part of ownership to do anything, everything, to make this franchise a winner.

This team has holes everywhere.

Let the head coach and his men fill them as he sees fit.

I don't know how independent a streak Schiano will have in him, having never been a head coach in the NFL. At his first news conference, Schiano sounded like he was in line with the Glazers' and Dominik's ideas about team building: defense, running the ball, the draft, all of it.

"In college football, it's recruit and develop," Schiano said. "In pro football, it's draft and develop. That's the way I think it goes. You draft great players and you get them here and you develop them and they get better and better and better.""