No way- keep him in there and let him either work through the adversity and get a win or own the loss. Putting Strevs in there is not a good move- he loses, he shares the blame. He wins, it glosses over the ugliness of the game and fails to underscore the work that needs to be done to get better. I can honestly envision some posters coming on here after the win complaining about how "we didn't deserve the win", "strevs bailed out Nichols", "the other team played better", "we are not as good as our record", "ham and egger" and the list goes on...
So yeah- I think it was the right call to leave Nichols in there.