As the regular season has ended for many teams, so has the coaching tenures for many coaches. Whether they were fired, resigned, retired or bought out, the truth is they used to coach at universities that if they wanted them would have retained them, so for simplification let's just call of these partings "firings" and comment on them as so...
Dennis Franchione 32-28...Nobody didn't see this coming. The perennial mediocrity at Texas' second largest university and an e-mail fundraising scandal sealed Coach Fran's fate.
Bill Callahan 27-22...Your school hiring a predecessor you once called a "crusty old fuck" as your boss to replace your old boss because of a performance by your defense, is as good of a sign as it seems. Reportedly the meeting between Tom Osborne and Bill Callahan was 15 minutes. 15 minutes? What was talked about in the 14 and a half minutes after the words "You know why I brought you in here".
Ed Orgeron 10-25...This was the first surprise of the coach firing season. When a coach recruits as well as Coach O did (and I'll be able to read about how he did so this Christmas, hopefully), schools usually give you the rope needed to see that recruiting through. Ole Miss didn't win an SEC game however and blew a fourth quarter lead to rival and once on the hot seat Mississippi State and Sylvester Croom. That embarrassment must've been the nail in Coach O's coffin.
Chan Gailey 44-32...now starts the parade of coaches fired because of failure to meet expectations whether they be high...
Ted Roof 6-45...low...
Jeff Bower 119-82-1... or somewhere in-between Anyway, this is by far the most surprising firing of the past week. Technically a forced resignation, Southern Miss I guess expected a Hawaii-like season from Bower this year, unless Coach O feels like contending for Conference USA titles, Southern Miss will end up regretting this decision as East Carolina did in the years after firing Steve Logan.
Sonny Lubick 108-74...Lubick has reportedly been offered an Assistant AD job which may be more of an olive branch than anything else. Lubick has been contemplating retirement all year but if you can get a buyout after what you decided was going to be your last season anyway, wouldn't you?
Houston Nutt 75-48...Nutt was reportedly offered a 2-year extension but turned it down as he had seen the writing on the wall. Off-the-field issues and the Mitch Mustain fiasco had more to do with Nutt's leaving than anything on the field, Nutt and Arkansas can only benefit from this parting which is sure to not be the last of what is turning out to be an offseason heavy in coaching turnover.
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