Coaches Hot Seat

Coaches Hot Seat


Houston Nutt at Ole Miss


Ole Miss has always had a short leash with head coaches and this season will mark back to back losing seasons in Oxford. Fans and Alumni will not stand around and do nothing forever. I expect for Nutt to be fired following the season


Rick Neuheisel at UCLA


I hate putting slick Rick in this conversation because I think he is a good football coach. I think the real reason he hasn't done well at UCLA is because of UCLA's commitment level to football. I don't think they invest enough in the program to make it successful. I hate it but Rick will be fired at years end and UCLA will be on the coaching search again and the program will find itself in a hole as usual.


Frank Spaziani at Boston College


This one is pretty easy to describe...Boston College has went from a respectable team that won 8 or 9 games a year to possibly the worst team in major college football. They have no talent at any position and couldn't beat Duke. Expect BC to have a short leash here and cut Spaz ASAP.


Paul Wolfe at Washington State


Paul has been under the spot light at Wazzu since day one. The Alumni and Fans have been yearning for years past with great Wazzu QB Ryan Leaf , and being annual competitors for a chance to play in the Rose Bowl Game. It hasn't came to pass under Wolfe until this point, but I don't feel if as this is all his fault. What I am basing this upon is how damn hard it is to get players to Pullman Washington. Pullman is in the middle of nowhere with absolutely nothing to do anywhere close. The weather is awful it never gets much hotter then 85 degrees but It only does that in Aug. The Average Temp for the year in Pullman is 58. IT RAINS AND SNOWS A LOT 21 inches of rain and 28.5 inches of snow. So I guess you get my point Pullman well sucks and why would you want to go play college football in Pullman. With all that said I am among those that wish that Washington State was a national contender again. I grew up watching them in big games. Washington state plays Oregon State as of writing this piece they are 3-3 and with a win today will be 4-3. If the win today they still have UTAH and CAL on the Schedule and those are both winnable which could give the cougars a bowl game birth and save Wolfe's job. 


We have already saw Mike Stoops at Arizona get canned I wanted to say that I hate it for Stoops because Arizona is another job where the Football program isn't as committed as they should be. Stoops lost 80% of his offense last off season and it is just hard to reload at a place like Arizona. I wish Stoops the best of luck. Arizona will not hire a sexy name they will stay safe and Stoops will get a nice coordinator job and eventually another head coaching job.  If although Arizona wants to go after a big name I could see Rich Rodriguez landing here


Speaking of Rich Rodriguez he will be one of the bigger names available in the off season. I can already see him at a place like Arizona. I think though that if Ole Miss fires Houston Nutt then it would be very conceivable for them to hire Rich. I think Ole Miss looks at Miss State with the spread offense and sees Rich's offense fitting that mold.


The biggest name that will be on the block will be Urban Meyer
and the School that I think is the front runner is Penn State. I think Coach Paterno will be even excepting of Meyer taking his spot this off season. I think Meyer would be a wonderful fit for Penn State and if Meyer was to get this job I would serve warning to the rest of the B1G because a Storm would be brewing in Happy Valley.