re: Has any college football program fallen harder than Southern Miss?

USM’s problems were a mix of “bad hiring” and “poor funding.”


They chased off Jeff Bower, an alum, to put Larry Fedora in charge because they weren’t happy that things had regressed to about .500 ball. Fedora succeeded but was able to move onto UNC while he was replaced with a fricking donut who immediately went 0-12 and got canned.

USM had to sell their home game against Nebraska back to them to be played in Lincoln to afford his buyout.

It has been downhill from there even despite peaks such as playing in the CUSA title game.