Tuesdays with Gorney: Coaches that may be inching off the hot seat

Plenty of coaches entered the season on the hot seat but many of them have started off the season really well … or good enough to make a case to keep their jobs.

In today’s Tuesdays With Gorney, Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney breaks down those coaches who are doing enough to possibly not get fired.

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MARIO CRISTOBAL, Miami

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Was Cristobal on a really hot seat? Probably not as he had a lot of fixing to do and there literally might not be a better candidate for the job since he’s from Miami and played for the Hurricanes. However, his first two seasons were not all that impressive.

Miami was 12-13 in Cristobal’s first two seasons and didn’t win more than three ACC games in either of those years. But getting quarterback Cam Ward from the transfer portal and developing others across the board has Miami undefeated and ranked sixth nationally. There were back-to-back major scares against Virginia Tech and Cal but the Hurricanes remain unscathed with a schedule left that looks like they could go undefeated in the regular season.

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TONY ELLIOTT, Virginia

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Elliott, who earned his bona fides during a great assistant coaching stint at Clemson, went 6-16 in his first two seasons at Virginia. The Cavaliers won three ACC games. It looked like things were just not working out for him in Charlottesville, not an easy place to win as UVa hasn’t had a winning season since 2019.

But things have turned this season…

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Publish date : 2024-10-09 00:34:12

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