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Retaining bad leadership for “stability” is the province of fools. It is vastly preferable to have an elite successor waiting in the wings, but the world doesn’t always cooperate. The common hindsight analysis that getting rid of a failed leader can’t even be entertained without first securing the successor is a refrain of people who have never been responsible for anything. USC was much too late in making their change, but Bohn used that time effectively to marshal the money needed to land a whale. Mike Bohn made his move, appointed a true interim (making it clear that the interim couldn’t earn the job – the new breed of AD is learning) and bought the time and space to assess the landscape and land his guy. Trojan faithful wanted Helton gone last year and he was a Dead Man Coaching in 2021. Helton started encouragingly in Troy (he went 21-6 in 2016/2017) but his ability level caught up to his on field record.
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USC fired head coach Clay Helton in September after a 42-28 loss to a poor Stanford team. Napier was well rewarded for his own impeccable timing. Billy Napier (32-5 over his last three seasons at Louisiana) is their relatively unproven, but enticing new way forward. They cut bait and their brand was damaged far less than Mullen’s. Florida didn’t dither and hope that Mullen would regain his mojo or discover a more pleasant or loyal personality.
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However, late last year, Florida’s locker room fell apart, Mullen began to actively explore other options while demanding a contract extension, and the decline carried over into 2021 with a 5-6 record and a 2-6 performance in the SEC East. They landed a proven veteran coach with a 113-40 record at Notre Dame.įlorida fired Dan Mullen despite season ending poll finishes of 6, 7, 12 in his first three years in Gainesville. LSU let Orgeron finish out the season – a means of avoiding the interim head coach poison – which bought time and space to make their hire. Coach O couldn’t coach or hire his way out of his predicament. He stumbled in 2020, doubled down on failure in 2021, and evidenced rather quickly that he could not handle success he was a figurehead bolstered by two outstanding coordinators and an epic confluence of talent.
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Nineteen months prior, Orgeron coached the Tigers to the national title, leading a historically great team. LSU fired Ed Orgeron (“they reached a mutual agreement”) on October 17. In turn, head coaches are learning to time their moves ahead of the posse. ADs are making sober assessments about where the head coach is today – not what he did two years prior. Sentimentality shrugged off like a head on a guillotine. Messy divorces that would have dragged on for years are now being severed with Henry VIII’s executional efficiency. Coaches have fully embraced their mercenary status, that shift reaching its ultimate realization when Urban Meyer turned it into a narcissistic art form. Fans are squaring themselves to that new reality as well. I’m a proponent of doing now what you’ll have to do eventually and it seems that college football’s power brokers, once fearful, cautious, chummy, backward-looking, have largely resigned to the same perspective. Never have so many significant college programs parted ways so quickly with a failing coach, or done so during the season. Either a sense of urgency today or a guarantee of regret tomorrow.