As we reach the midpoint of the college football season, it’s time to reflect on life as a head coach. The pay is great but secure stinks.
Schools are firing coaches earlier to get a jump on signing the next guy and not losing a recruiting class.
Already seven Power 5 coaches have been canned. The list will grow. Is Bryan Harsin still hanging on at Auburn?
Others who may given their walking papers — and in some cases a pile of cash —
include Arizona’s Jedd Fischer, West Virginia’s Neal Brown and FSU’s Mike Norvell. It looked like Norvell had escaped the Grim Reaper, but what happens if the Seminoles are embarrassed by Clemson on Bobby Bowden Field and then beaten at home by rival Florida?
The cattle baron and oil-rich boosters at Texas A&M have got to be fed up with Jimbo Fisher. In his 5th season at College Station, the Aggies barely have their heads above water, Can those boosters afford a $100,000 million buyout?
They can, but will they? That question is being asked on a lot of campuses.