Was hearing a lot of folks talking about how we cant fire a coach after three years, and how it is not done, or how we cant find a coach if this happens. So was tired of the stuff being thrown at the wall, so I decided to check out the teams within the B10 to see how many (if any Wink wink) had fired coaches after three years or less..What I found was a bit startling and funny at the same time.
Here is a list of the teams, and next to the name is the number of times they have gotten rid of a coach 3 years or less into their tenure. There are more names I could add to most all of these teams, but some of those names were from the early days of football where a coach may have only coached for a year and left to work a job or something so I stopped counting.
What you will find is that every single B10 team except for Rutgers (that was the funny part) has fired multiple coaches in three years or less time throughout their history. I also found that this had been going in in the 30's 40's, 50's and 60's etc. This is not something that is new, but something that has been going on for a long long long time. I put some notes next to a few of them to illustrate my point.
Big Ten teams that have let a coach go in three or fewer years
School Number of times
tOSU 3
Mich 7
Mich St 6
Penn St 7
Iowa 7
Ill 8
NW 8
Indiana 8 Including Gerry Dinardo
Wisky 5 Including a coach in the 80's named Don Morton who coached from 1987-1989
Minny 3 Including Wesley Fessler in the 1950's who had a three year record of: 10-13-4 So even I the 1950's if you were not cutting the mustard you were shown the door after three years.
MD 4 Including a guy in the 1970's named Roy Lester who had a 7-25 record and coached from 1969-1971
Purdue 5
Rut 0
Now this is not to say either way what we should do at the end of this year, but it does clearly point out that thinking that three years is not enough for a coach is a fallacy and that all of other teams in our league have fired coaches multiple times in three years or less during their histories. Point being, if you are afraid that teams dont fire coaches after three years and that is the main reason you want to keep the staff in tact, then well,,, maybe you need to rethink things.
Anyways enjoy.
Here is a list of the teams, and next to the name is the number of times they have gotten rid of a coach 3 years or less into their tenure. There are more names I could add to most all of these teams, but some of those names were from the early days of football where a coach may have only coached for a year and left to work a job or something so I stopped counting.
What you will find is that every single B10 team except for Rutgers (that was the funny part) has fired multiple coaches in three years or less time throughout their history. I also found that this had been going in in the 30's 40's, 50's and 60's etc. This is not something that is new, but something that has been going on for a long long long time. I put some notes next to a few of them to illustrate my point.
Big Ten teams that have let a coach go in three or fewer years
School Number of times
tOSU 3
Mich 7
Mich St 6
Penn St 7
Iowa 7
Ill 8
NW 8
Indiana 8 Including Gerry Dinardo
Wisky 5 Including a coach in the 80's named Don Morton who coached from 1987-1989
Minny 3 Including Wesley Fessler in the 1950's who had a three year record of: 10-13-4 So even I the 1950's if you were not cutting the mustard you were shown the door after three years.
MD 4 Including a guy in the 1970's named Roy Lester who had a 7-25 record and coached from 1969-1971
Purdue 5
Rut 0
Now this is not to say either way what we should do at the end of this year, but it does clearly point out that thinking that three years is not enough for a coach is a fallacy and that all of other teams in our league have fired coaches multiple times in three years or less during their histories. Point being, if you are afraid that teams dont fire coaches after three years and that is the main reason you want to keep the staff in tact, then well,,, maybe you need to rethink things.
Anyways enjoy.
