Five College Football Coaches on The Hot Seat

Correspondent Written on August 24, 2008

These are the guys who have to at least make a bowl game this year or else they will be at Kinko's making copies of their resume come January.

5) Mike Stoops, Arizona

The glitz and glamour of being a Stoops has disappeared. The Wildcats are 17-28 under Stoops, and fans are clamouring for the days of the Desert Swarm defense of the early '90's, when they were perennial contenders for the Pac-10 title.

Well, you can still take consolation that your hot girls have more brains than those hotties over in Tempe.

4) Ty Willingham, Washington

Granted, Washington in terms of morality and talent are much better under Willingham, but this team has yet to get over that hump. With a great quarterback, but an impossible schedule, Ty needs to get this team to the seven-win mark badly. A case of a great coach who's over ambition has been his own worst enemy.

3) Dave Wannstedt, PITT

Yes, you beat the Mountaineers last year, but still no bowl game. A coach with NFL experience and Super Bowl rings has been a disaster in Pittsburgh.

Wannstedt, a guy who was brought in as hard nosed, pound the ball type coach, has made the Panthers barely a footnote in the Big East and probably would be the biggest disaster in the Big East if it were not for another guy.

2) Charlie Weis, Notre Dame

If Ty can get sacked for being only a winning coach Charlie could certainly be fired for two bowl-less sub-.500 seasons, right? I mean this just looks like Willingham 2, a great mind that got off to a hot start, but then was brought back to reality.

Notre Dame is no longer a national power, and it seems that it is getting closer to joining a league to regain its legitimacy.

1) Greg Robinson, Syracuse

As Kirk Herbstreit so painfully put it, people have forgotten about this once powerful program. Syracuse was suffering a bad case of the Mediocres, but now it is just a bad case of the Terribles.

They are having trouble recruiting a team that once competed with Miami, Virginia Tech and other powerhouses for talent are now competing with UCONN, Buffalo and Temple for talent.

All around, the Greg Robinson experiment has been as successful as my 11th grade Chemistry experiments. You can google it.

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written on August 24, 2008 Opinion