It's The End Of Coaching Decisions As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

I recently read the article on this site entitled "The Ridiculous Coaching Carousel: How Sports Is Failing Fans". I read on, intrigued on the amount of people who thinks the firing of so many coaches this year is an atrocity.

Trust me, it is not.

It went on to say things such as "If you didn't win your last game in today's sporting world, you may as well get ready to have the seat of your pants scalded."   

Phillip Fulmer has had two losing records in the past four seasons at an extremely prestiged football university.  Mediocre seasons from 1999-2008 is uncalled for at this university that prides itself in it's success in football. The thing is, in this time of rebuilding seasons and the increasing skill of so called "mid-major" teams, you have to claw for every single victory and success.  These Volunteers have not done that.

It seems obvious that these coaches are not being fired for the single bad season, but the fact that this bad season cap's off years of mediocre ones shows that the program is going down not up.

Tommy Tuberville only recorded double-digit wins in two of his 10 seasons at Auburn.  Should we mention his two losing seasons?  A historically rich football college needs to stay elite, and that just wasn't happening for Auburn under Tuberville. 

Sylvester Croom was undoubtedly unsuccessful at Mississippi State.  He only had one winning season in his five years at Mississippi State.  Just ask Duke, it doesen't matter what conference your in, it matters what kind of success you've had in it.  He had to go too.

So that "Paralyzing short-term memory" William Qualkinbush was talking would probably be a blessing for Mississippi State. Even teams like Southern Miss and ECU have fired coaches in recent years hoping to land the one that will push them over the mediocre edge.  Weather these coaches personally deserve it or not, it happens. 

The only real atrocity in this recent storm of coaching changes is that Charlie Weiss wasn't fired.  The Irish fans really wish they had some "short-term memory" right now.  The coaches understand why they were fired and the universities know 100% of their trials and tribulations as head coach.  So do the fans.

The athletic directors are also aware that coaching changes of coach's that did have some success could lead to the hiring of men that will take them to a lower tier of performance.  It didn't work for Southern Miss at all, but if you ask them; or any other athletic director of a mid-major school in the nation for that matter, to be able to get some respect in a talent filled NCAA conference is well worth the risk.