It’s that time of the year again. Before every football season, administrators and fans alike start sweating for different reasons. Administrators’ headaches come from a delicate balancing act of maintaining the athletic budget and hoping the football coach doesn’t fall flat on his face so that when the holiday season rolls around, said coach will be celebrating with a buyout. As demanding and skeptical as they are, fans will have many people to blame if their team doesn’t make the 12-team playoff.
Last year’s list featured five coaches being dismissed for various reasons, including the two biggest salary bandits, Jimbo Fisher of Texas A&M and Michigan State’s Mel Tucker. Those that survived the purge include Neal Brown, Butch Jones, and Eli Drinkwitz, but the pink slips brigade waits for no one.
There is no advocation for anyone losing their jobs, but this is college athletics where the margin for success is thin, and fans’ patience for losing is thinner.
Here are the college football coaches whose seats are en fuego entering the 2024 season.
Billy Napier, Florida
With the financial resources, the tradition, and the rich recruiting soil of the Sunshine State, this should be one of the nation’s premier programs. Instead, Napier, with an 11-14 record in his first two campaigns, has quickly turned Gator Nation into an afterthought. And with the schedule backloaded with national title-contending teams (Georgia, Texas, LSU, Ole Miss and Florida State), the powers that be at Florida might be cranking up the buyout machine in no time to thus begin another cycle in desperately trying to get back to the top of the sport.
Florida coach Billy Napier looks at the scoreboard during the second half against Arkansas at Steve Spurrier Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.
Ryan Day, Ohio State
Losing to Michigan three…
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Author : USA TODAY Sports
Publish date : 2024-08-20 10:30:38
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