At 10:30 p.m. someone from the 49ers finally called me to officially say Mike Nolan got fired and Mike Singletary is interim head coach. There’s a press conference noon on Tuesday introducing Singletary.

The press conference will be interesting. Scot McCloughan will say what a great guy Nolan is and how it was difficult to fire him but the team needed to go in another direction.

Nolan deserved what he got. If McCloughan doesn’t shape up someone may have to fire him, too.

Singletary will give some speech about how he’s going to turn the team around. Don’t believe it. He has no head-coaching experience and couldn’t get another head-coaching gig in the NFL. John York seems to hire these no-name, no-credentials guys. There’s something else. The Niners have a tradition — West Coast Offense, etc. Singletary is light years away from the tradition. He was a linebacker for the Bears, for heaven’s sake. York also is light years away from the tradition. He made the Niners into the un-Niners, made them into something unrecognizable. What a shame.

— Lowell