🏈 Hiring and firing in the BCS era: Who do you consider to be the worst hires in the last 15 years? (

[TerryP]

If you haven't happened to notice, UCONN fired its head coach, Paul Pasqualoni, after starting 0-4. (In the AAC there are three teams that have started this season without a win. If anything, that should dispel the myth the ACC deserves a place at the "playoff table.")

Pasqualoni joins Kiffin as the only two BCS AQ head coaches who have been fired in September.

On what I call an interesting note, up until this weekend there were two other coaches that had been fired very early in the season—in this case example after their sixth game: Tommy and Terry Bowden.

Setting aside Chizik jokes (if at all possible,) when you look around the collegiate football landscape over the last decade and a half who do you consider to be awful hires by BCS school administrations?

And while we're talking about bad decisions by school administrators, who do you think made a mistake by firing their head coach to quickly?

 

[planomateo]

Lane Kiffin makes the list twice and so does Notre Dame. Hell, Alabama might make the list twice along with Tennessee.

 

[psychojoe]

Houston Nutt to OM would make my list. Rich Ridriguez to Michigan (and almost to Alabama).

 

[bama alum]

• fRan to tamu
• Pappy to Bama
• Cheezit to ISU and then *U
• Lame Kitten to USC
• On a technicality, if I can call it that...*U not hiring Turner Gill
• Pellini to Nebraska??
• Other names are swimming around in my head...I just can't recall them now.

 

[TerryP]

• fRan to tamu
• Pappy to Bama
• Cheezit to ISU and then *U
• Lame Kitten to USC
• On a technicality, if I can call it that...*U not hiring Turner Gill
• Pellini to Nebraska??
• Other names are swimming around in my head...I just can't recall them now.

Was Pelini a bad hire or was the mistake made with firing Solich? CBP isn't doing that badly of a job at Nebraska as I see it: 51-21 (.708)

We'll never know what Price could have accomplished at Bama. I tend to think we'd have done a lot better than Shula. It's my inclination he'd end up being in the Perkins/Curry class.

 

[TerryP]

Matt mentions Notre Dame so we have to also point at Kansas, don't we?

 

[Bamabww]

Bilema (sp?) to Hog Heaven is still a questionable hire to me.

The firing of Solich at Nebraska is probably the worst firing or at least the one where the trigger was pulled too quick.

 

[rick4bama]

What about David Cutcliffe at Ole Miss?

 

[BamaCore]

Derek Dooley comes to mind. I think it's still too early on Butch Jones and Beliema though...though I'm starting to suspect Butch might soon be on this list.

 

[ElephantStomp]

Weiss at both Notre Dame and Kansas
Solich being fired was one of the absolute dumbest firings in recent history
Chizik obviously

 

[bamaraider]

Dennis Franchoine. Lane Kiffin. Rich Rod. Joker Philips can be thrown into the equation.

Still though, Chizik might have been the hire that put it over the top for me.

 

[psychojoe]

Callahan to Nebraska was an epic bad hire.

 

[bama alum]

Callahan to Nebraska was an epic bad hire.

+1 This was one of the ones whose name didn't come to mind.

Terry, I don't necessarily think Pelini is a bad hire, but he is not a good fit at Nebraska. He's trying to save face to keep his job, but he clearly doesn't want to be there, and the fans sure don't want him there any more. And I agree, Solich should have never been canned.


Weis to Notre Lame, bad hire. To Kansas, however...Nowhere program for a nowhere coach. Seems to be working for me. So far that piece of crap teamhas gone 2 - 1, which is already doubled where they were all of last year.

I thought Dooley had the potential to be a good hire because he was successful at La Tech. Apparently, whatever coaching decisions he made as far as personnel and recruiting while at Tech, stayed at Tech. I did like him though, a lot.

 

[cjaytch]

I thought firing Cutcliffe and hiring Orgeron was an epic fail.

I was literally sick to my stomach at the prospect of Bama hiring Rich Rod. I am so thankful his wife looked down her nose at Tuscaloosa.

Firing R.C. Slocum and hiring Fran was just.... wow....

 

[planomateo]

Everything Weis touches turns to crap...

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

George O'Leary could fit both profiles. LOL
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[PhillyGirl]

George O'Leary could fit both profiles. LOL

That would be my pick too! Also, Smith was pretty bad at Arkie last year, but they really scrambled for someone to fill Petrino's shoes. I know Spaz was absolutely hated at BC (had a cousin up there at the time).