Past Hot Seat Coaches

Was thinking paternot oo but figured some douche would say he was a legend and never on the hot seat

Les got the vote of confidence last year, never seen any coach last through that, its pretty much a deathwish

These are all good examples. But LSU gives a wholly different meaning to the concept of "hot seat" for football coaches. It's worth pointing out that Miles, going into his 6th season, is the longest-tenured head coach at LSU since Charlie McClendon, who became head coach almost 50 years ago. If you eliminate McClendon and Bo Rein from the statistics, the average tenure of an LSU football head coach is just a few months over 3 years. The LSU fan base is, and always has been, the most delusional among major college football programs. It believes, incorrectly, that Louisiana produces significantly better talent than any other state or region. Sure, Louisiana produces good high school football players, but to say that it is materially better than California, Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virgina, or any number of other states is, well, delusional. The fan base believes that with the "talent" available, LSU should never have a losing season and should never endure more than one, or at most two , years without contending for conference or national championships. The fan base believes that, because they played peewee football, or they had a cousin whose wife's uncle's grandfather was a walk-on at NLSU, they know way more than any johnny-come-lately head coach. It isn't a coincidence that even the most successful coaches (see, in this regard, Saban, Arnsparger, Dietzel) can only tolerate the absurdity for a limited period of time before moving on. The LSU coach will always be in the "hot seat" until the fan base gets real. And until that happens, the only quality coaches (Les Miles aside)whom LSU will be able to hire are ones who begin looking for their next job about 15 minutes after they arrive.

Larry Coke...oops.

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Your post is spot on and one of the best I've read in months.

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I appreciate the comment. That having been said, I fully expect LSU to rammer jammer that yellow hammer up the Tide's backside this fall.

NYCajun: The most accurate thing I've ever heard on here.

Tubberville looked to be on his way out until he went undefeated.


I personally don't see Miles on the hot seat anyways. He would have to have a horrible season and miss a bowl which would get any coach fired at an elite program.

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Uhh... just who exactly in our fanbase is claiming this??? Enlighten us.

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All those that think a 9-3 season is mediocre when 2 of the losses came against the #1 &#2 teams in the country. All those that think wins over Arkansas, Auburn and Georgia are not solid wins because they have no talent and LSU has way more talent. All those that think we beat "no-one" last year. All those that think Miles sucks because of all the "talent" he has and has ONLY won 2 SEC West Titles, 1 SEC Title, 1 BCS National Title and 2 BCS Bowl Titles in 5 years.

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How many coaches (in college or the NFL) have fought off the hot seat and got their program cranking again?

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Tubberville was on the hot seat after being preseason #1 in 2003 and having a 8 win season. Auburn was actually interviewing coaches behind his back the week before the Auburn/Bama game in 2003. He beat bama that year to stop the bleeding and went on to remove himself from the hot seat in 2004 going undefeated in the midst of people claiming the program was in a downward slide.