Has the leash become too short for college football coaches?

I guess this is in regards to orgeron and Mullen?


Ed was fired for off the field stuff just as much for on the field (at least at the point he was announced as fired). You can’t be an embarrassment off the field AND let the program slide

As far as dan I can see an argument that it was “fast” but look how they finished last year and his performance this year.

Then take into account that this is in the state of Florida with a massively down FSU and Miami

These should be the golden years for UF but instead they are pretty much an afterthought nationally

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If they don’t like it, take a pay cut

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A lot of them do. Both voluntarily and not so much. It chews them up and spits them out. Look how many lifetime coordinators there are. I damn sure wouldn't do it. At this stage in my life, that amount of stress and scrutiny on your family isn't worth $5 million. What you're left with, mostly, is the uber driven hyper competitive psycho's who would sell their first born for an athlete. Constant out with the old, in with the new. And we wonder why it's such a a dirty game.

It's weird now that in 40s-70s, the college coach at the big school didn't get paid enormously, he was like a grandpa and pillar to the state, he could stay there 30 years and always be mediocre and they'd name the stadium after him. I'm not saying we should go back to that.

Maybe there's a good balance, like the way it was in the 80s and 90s. Results were expected but there was also patience.

In 1994 if you wanted to rant about your coach you had to do it in person with your friends and no one outside could hear it. It's a result of the internet, 24/7 coverage, a million channels, combined with Nick Saban blowing everyone's expectations out of the water

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look how they finished last year

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Giving Bama their best game of the year in the SECCG? That’s a ridiculously fast hook a year after being in the SECCG. Delusional expectations.

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Giving Bama their best game of the year in the SECCG? That’s a ridiculously fast hook a year after being in the SECCG. Delusional expectations.

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Throwing a shoe to lose a game they had absolutely no business losing combined with holding out your best player because you think you are that far above said team.

Mullen beats LSU that SECCg that you are talking about would have been playing to earn a playoff bid.

He then got waxed by Oklahoma to lose his third straight game and finish 8-4.

He went from legitimate playoff vision in the last regular season game vs a team with a record of 3-5 starting a true freshman on the road to 8-4.

Then they have had a catastrophic collapse this year



All this in the context of Miami and FSU being terrible

Too short? Who's been fired of late that didn't deserve it?

If coaches like O and Mullen were allowed to continue those programs would be set back for years. The leash is where it should be.

I was just thinking about this the other day, and the answer is yes.

Ed O deserved to be fired, he was completely unqualified and had no business being hired in the first place.

Guys like Herman at UT, Mullen at UF, Wells at TT? Seems unsustainable, all those guys are good coaches. Also no idea why Gus was fired at AU. They traded down.

I miss the days when the winning the conference and your bowl game was an admirable goal, now all the conferences are going to 16 teams and its a clusterfrick

The leash is never short enough for your team’s coach, but every other team should know their place and be patient.

Usually how these takes go.

Only a place like Texas A&M will pay to be a nobody on a divisional level

Anywhere else is trying to win

You dont win you go

It’s weird how money should follow results, but now we all pay upfront for potential.