The hot seat season is firmly upon us, and the leading candidates for getting a swift kick in the ass are Ty Willingham at Washington and Greg Robinson of Syracuse. However, the pressure on Tommy Bowden has now reached inferno levels.(Image: CoachesHotSeat.com)
Leading Clemson apologist Mickey Pyler of TigerNet.com came out on Monday and asked that Bowden be terminated effective immediately. When the king of sunshine pumpers gives up on you, it's pretty bad. Personally, I think the call for immediate dismissal is extreme given that the Tigers can still win their division in the Charmin Division of the ACC. Other articles on the Clemson situation include:
- Bowden on the Hot Seat - Winston Salem Journal
- Bowden defends QB and Coordinator - TheState.com
- Pressure is on Bowden - ESPN
- Bowden not ready to panic - Charleston.net
- No big changes expected - Greenville News
Phil Fulmer is also racing up the hot seat lists. He now proudly sits atop the CoachesHotSeat.com ranking of hottest poopers in the country. In fact, this year the students at Tennessee had to pay for student tickets for the first time. Below is their reaction to the product they are now paying for.
Others Catching Heat:
- -- Ferentz not worried about job security - ESPN
-- Spurrier's reputation on the Line - Charleston.net
-- Al Groh: Wrong Man for the Job - DailyPress
-- Longest Tenured Coaches without a BCS Bowl - GSB
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Tommy Bowden is done at the end of this season if they don't win the ACC championship. This was supposed to be their season to get over the hump...finally...
Lane Kiffin is now available and wants to be a college head coach. Don't be surprised if they go after Skip Holtz, either. Heck, they may try to steal Jim Grobe away from Wake Forest.
There's a good chance there will be two less Bowdens in the college football world after this season.
Willingham will be first to go. There is an obvious trend in college football, the West Coast Offense cannot work. The coaches that bring in the West Coast Offense have had the least success on the college level. Groh, Croom, Willingham, Callahan, and now Sherman. The West Coast Offense is not very dynamic and it takes forever to implement. College playbooks cannot be too complex, which is what the W. Coast Offense does. Croom, Willingham, Sherman, and Groh will all have losing seasons. Callahan was fired last year and look at how Nebraska looks now with Pelini. West Coast Offense is gone and now things look so much better on the Offensive end.
I read the TigerNet piece earlier ... yikes.
It reminds me of what happened with GT the past two years - just like Gailey, Bowden has become too hated by a large portion of the fanbase to stick around anymore, no matter what he does. There's just too much water under the bridge for him to stay. Clemson has to let him go.
I bet Tommy gets to stick out the whole season though. I bet Willingham gets the axe after the Arizona game this weekend. That will give the interim coach a bye week to get things somewhat organized.
You know that Clemp-scum will end up winning the ACC and they won't be able to fire him at the end of the year - or it will cost them too much.
Personally, I think it is a business decision right now for Terry Don and others at IPTAY.
IMHO - Greg Robinson has to be first with Kirk Ferentz right behind him. What the hell happened to Iowa? A few years ago they were a Big 10 power and now they are getting handled in the second half by Northwestern.
Go Dawgs!!
I love that "rankings" list for it includes every coach. Richt and Carroll both moved above Rich Brooks on the Hot Seat rankings...
-Sylvester, thy name be Croom'd.
-Willingham is also done, son.
-I know it's his first season, but how does Mike Sherman keep his job?
-Robinson should've been done after last year.
-We all know that Clemson will finish 9-4 co-Atlantic Division champs with a resounding wins over South Carolina and over Cal in the Emerald Bowl. And that Bowden will keep his job, and they'll be unranked to start next season, and that they'll start 7-1 only to collapse again.
Clemson messed up last year. I wonder what his buyout is now, because they panicked and extended him last year when Arkansas made overtures. Should have let him walk then, avoid paying a buyout (and actually get paid a buyout in return) and gone after Bobby Johnson. Now, they pay Bowden to leave, then have to pay his replacement.
Clemson is a lifetime 8-4 program. That is just what they are. Bowden is doing a fantastic job of keeping them at that level. They will only go down with a coaching change, as they have simply reached their ceiling.
When was Iowa ever a Big 10 power under Ferentz? Iowa twice finished tied for first in the Big 10; the rest of the time 3rd and 4th is about as good as it gets and that is since 1999. 2 ties for first in 8 seasons does not make a power to me.
Skip Holtz' stock has probably taken a bit of a dive, not a Monday Dow Jones dive, but a dive nonetheless.
Kiffin will be a hot prospect. His time with the Raiders should not count one way or the other as Al Davis seems like a syphillitic ass. 5 coaches in 6 years. Davis was right that he made a mistake in hiring Kiffin--I thought he was too inexperienced as well, but nothing Kiffin did there should hurt his stock as a college coach. So what if Kiffin did not want to draft Russell; there were plenty of folks thinking the Raiders had other needs.
As for who will be first, it might come down to what teams end their seasons and when. I cannot see Robinson or Willingham making past this year.
Fulmer is more complicated. The contract UT gave him rewards mediocrity--a year is added for every 8 win season. I doubt that Bobby Johnson has that in his contract at Vandy!
I agree about the West Coast offense although the offense was not the problem at Nebraska the last season or so. It was the defense that was ranked in the 100s that was the problem.
I think Croom is okay for this season.
Groh and Bowden just seemed incapable of doing well.
Bowden could be compared to Donnan in some ways although I have no idea of how Bowden responds to callers on his radio show--if he takes calls or has a radio show for that matter.
Clemson fans remind me a bit of my fellow Bulldog fans who have an overblown sense of their own history and see themselves as national powers because each school won a MNC in the early 80s (how many people here were in college when UGA won that title? I was a graduating senior heading to UGA so I am not even in that category). In truth UGA was a national power or factor for a brief time then and not again until Richt.
Clemson has plenty of boosters that will pay off the contract if they really want to get rid of Bowden. The question then comes, who replaces him?
I don't think UT has the money to get rid of Fulmer. On College Football Live today they were talking about that very subject and mentioned that with his new contract it will cost around 4 million to buy him out and another 3 million to buy his staff out. Then you gotta come up with the dough for a new coach that would probably run around 2 million in the SEC at least. I think UT fans are stuck with him at least through next year, unless Peyton wants to lend Vol Nation some cash.
Can we get Willie Martinez on the top of that list???
Mr. Egger,
Tammy's buyout is 2.5 million. His staff is another 2 million. They can't afford to get rid of him. Tammy suckered them into keeping him. LOL! Clemsux does suck.
skidawg1985, that couldn't be further from the truth about Georgia Football. UGA is 11th in all-time wins, and if you look at the top 15, it's the big boys of college football. Clemson does not crack the 25. Georgia has 2 consensus titles (1942 & 1980). We just have a little more integrity than most schools and don't put banners up for those that aren't consensus. Bama, for instance, has about 6 consensus, but they claim 12 titles. We could claim 5 or 6 if we wanted to.
Georgia was a national power under Butts and won SEC titles regularly under Dooley. Most of us who are 25-40 unfortunately spent a good amount of years in the Goff/Donnan eras. Those simply aren't indicative of the rightful place UGA has in college football history. Those 12 years took us away from where we're supposed to be.
CMR has restored that honor and will soon get that title we all so desparately want. Only Bama & UT have more SEC titles than us and we're nipping on the Vols heels.
As for Clemson, they have plenty of money to buy-out Bowden. If this continues, they can't hardly afford to keep him because enthusiasm for the program will be so low.
Willingham and Bowden may be in jeopardy. What I've found is this - college teams that dominate the line of scrimmage and have a good running game have the better programs long term. If you rely on the pass you can win your share of games, just not the biggest games.
I agree with most here that it's Willingham and Robinson. First to go.
UDub will be the best job out there at the end of the year, too.
As far as Clemson being an 8-4 a year type program... have you seen the ACC lately? They should be undefeated sans Bamer of course.
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