I can never remember so many head coaches being being fired before we are even halfway through the college football season.
Chryst getting fired at Wisconsin is the biggest shocker...he was only 2-3 this season, but up until this season he's been really, really good.
I wonder if all these early firings is not a by-product of the social-media/NIL/transfer-portal era...and of course multi-million dollar salaries for Head Coaches.
Since there are no more tie-games in college football...I guess the old slogan needs tweaking to say, "Coach, we are with you WIN or WIN!"
Don't people realize that every Saturday half the coaches accross the country lose?
Nowdays it seems that not only can you not afford to have just one bad season...you damn well better not even get off to a bad start.
In Gabe's TEN THOUGHTS I read his links to the firing of Head Coaches at both Colorado and Wissconsin.
THIS LINK is a good read:
https://www.si.com/college/2022/10/03/paul-chryst-wisconsin-firing-ruthless
QUOTES: NFL coaches fired thus far this season: zero.
College coaches fired thus far this season: five.
Scott Frost at Nebraska.
Herm Edwards at Arizona State.
Geoff Collins at Georgia Tech. And on this particularly bloody Sunday,
Karl Dorrell at Colorado and
Paul Chryst at Wisconsin.
And the last of those is a shocker.
Because of sheer numbers and laws-of-average...at least one of these firings will likely yeild at least some short term positive results...and people will point to that as a reason to "cut our losses" and "pull-the-plug early."
I think over-all this is a very dangerous and faulty philosiphy. I shudder to think of where Mizzou would be if Gary Pinkel had been fired after his 4th-team at Mizzou suffered a bad season when momentum had been building and we were the media darling and concensus choice to win the weak Big-12 North that year.
If he had been fired...like I and a majority of the fans thought he should have been at that time...where would Mizzou football, and the University as a whole, be today? For damn sure...we would not be in the SEC.
Here is the question...are AD's given the authority they need now days to NOT CAVE IN to the screaming masses in this day of social media criticism in the midst of an instant-gratification society?
Can a Power-5 AD stand by a struggling Head Football Coach nowdays... if he/she sees inward progress within the program even though said progress is not showing up currently in the W/L column?
I love College football...it is far and away my favorite sport...but I fear for it's future. I think for many, many reasons the sport is traveling down a dangerous path.