Coaching Carousel (Football)
Are they going to let Rhule on the plane home?
his job is definitely in jeopardy after this season . hottest seat in the B1G right now
Joel Goodson
- 9th man conundrum
not remotely close to pegging the snark scale, but still pretty good:
Sounds like a Faustian bargain.
Illinois gets so many coaches fired
It's a bit of a cop out to fire the OC. Their issues go far beyond this year. They lost that game yesterday due to penalties on both sides. That's a discipline issue and that starts and ends with the head coach. That was a $55M(or whatever the buyout is) decision, to appease the fans, by having someone's head roll.
Exactly.
You wonder now if anything gets him fired. Looking at the schedule you have to figure 1 and 2. If he goes 0 and 3, no way are the fans going to be appeased but from a dollars-and-cents standpoint that's a pretty big lift for anyone.
Will Nebraska go to a bowl game at 6-6 or will they do the IU basketball thing and turn down these lesser opportunities?
Rhule fires OC as expected.
Tim Lester better watch out! Last two visiting OCs got canned after games at Gies.
Totally agree. I was paying attention to their clock management in the 4th Q as we were essentially trying to bleed the clock as much as possible when we had the ball. There were a handful of times where their coaching was just terrible in that respect. I remember one instance when the clock was running, the prior play was less than 10 yards (so not long for the players to get to the line), they didn't sub so no waiting for us to sub, and they didn't snap the ball until about 2 secs left on the play clock. That's 20-30 seconds wasted on one play. Another time, again with the clock running, they let the play clock get below 20 before deciding they needed to call a timeout. They easily wasted over 60 seconds of time on the game clock cumulatively in the 4th Q just by terrible clock management. IMO that's on Rhule and no one else. Of course, he's not going to fire himself so he's gotta find a scapegoat to placate the masses and the AD.
NC State hire could work if there are certain big pocket boosters that wanted it and will pay for a roster. Otherwise, hires like these often end in a heap of blazing, entertaining glory.
has this ever ended up working? only one i can think of is in basketball when mullin seemed to have st. johns going in his final year. he stepped away because his brother died. penny hardaway may still work out and he hasn’t been awful.
can’t think of a single example in football. and i mean an alum who is a true star or superstar of the sport, not like fitzgerald or even spurrier
Right. Don't know if it has ever worked. Like I said, nowadays if there are some boosters that want the guy and are willing to pay for a talented roster, it could work. Otherwise, just sit back and grab the popcorn.
"Purdue previously fired defensive coordinator Kevin Kane in December 2024 when head coach Ryan Walters and the rest of his staff were let go following a 1–11 season."
Well, this is a firing we didn't cause.
