As College Football's Win-Now Culture Intensifies, the Leash for Head Coaches Is Getting Much Shorter (Dellenger @ SI)

[huskymedic]

As College Football's Win-Now Culture Intensifies, the Leash for Head Coaches Is Getting Much Shorter

>>Willie Taggart, Chad Morris and Joe Moorhead will forever be linked together for something they’d probably like to forget. They were all fired before coaching the first game of their third season at their respective school.

The timing is important here. Before this season, you’d have to go back more than a decade to find three Power 5 coaches who were dismissed, primarily for on-field performance, before their third year. This year, we got three in a single season, two of them within a week of one another in early November—when Florida State fired Taggart after 21 games and Arkansas fired Morris after 22 games. On Friday, in an unusual and somewhat unprecedented move, we got No. 3 when Mississippi State fired Moorhead, believed to be the first coach dismissed after his bowl game in more than a decade.<<

 

[Husky68]

Hope we don't have to wait to fire HCRE2.0 until after his bowl game.

 

[Pudge]

Edsall gets us to a Bowl anytime soon & he will get a statue next to the Husky in front of Gampel

 

[DoctorWho85]

Obviously things are different at Arkansas, Mississippi and FSU where they can pull the trigger sooner rather than later. Obviously for us we don't have that luxury. I'd personally feel better about the situation with Edsall had the team looked competitive, but we showed marginal improvement at best.