Moment of clarity when you wanted a coach of your team fired?

[socaljim242]

Carr underachieved. Mays probably never was coached or wasn't good enough to cover anything. Had straight line speed and that was it.

True. He couldnt go lateral to save his life.

 

[Ojb81]

I wasn't really on the wagon. It didn't hit rock bottom until 99/2000 though

They should had won the national title in 1998. That loss to Michigan State is still the worst loss I think i've ever witnessed.

i was a 17-yr old kid that season, and i actually faked sick to call off work at my shitty job at burger king so i could stay home and watch the game with my friends, what a buzzkill of a saturday afternoon that was.

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

i was a 17-yr old kid that season, and i actually faked sick to call off work at my shitty job at burger king so i could stay home and watch the game with my friends, what a buzzkill of a saturday afternoon that was.

Cooper and Carr were carbon copies of one another. Had elite teams but massively underachieved. And yes even Carr with his 97 team.

 

[Ojb81]

When the Reds blew what should've have been a sweep in the 2012 playoffs to San Fran, in spectacular fashion at home, after a VERY good regular season. I knew right then, I wanted Dusty Baker the fuck out of Cincinnati.

Eff you Dusty, you frog and toad-lookin' motherfucker

 

[ckhokie]

 

[Ojb81]

lol i remember that, but can't remember what year....?2009?

edit: oh, whoops, i was way off. 2014.

 

[Cobrabit]

I was coming here to post the same. While I was in Beamer's corner long after I should've been, that game/pic cemented to me that it was time to start the transition.

Thus far, I think the AD made a good call with Fuente

 

[olympicoscar]

Usually I don't want the coach fired. However I made an exception for Charlie Strong this past year.

 

[Texas Jefe]

Hmmn, list?

Rice
Iowa state
Kansas

 

[4down20]

I'm always the last person who wants to see them fired. The exception being DuBose. When Bill Curry "left" for Kentucky, I still wanted him and I thought we were pretty close. I also thought Shula deserved another year, due to the situation he walked into. In both cases, you just can't lose to Auburn like that, but otherwise I thought Curry did well, and Shula had a 10 win season that was ruined by injury.

The good news is, both coaches that replaced them won national championships. Shows what I know.

I never liked DuBose, Fran can go fuck himself, and I feel sorry for anyone who gets put in the Ray Perkins position after Saban.

 

[navamind]

Mine would have to be DickRod's second year when he lost to Purdue at home. I knew he needed to GTFO! That shit was straight embarrassing after the early 4-0 or 5-0 start.

Ron English after the App State loss. The OSU and Oregon losses also made it apparent he had no idea how to defend against a spread offense with a mobile QB.

 

[outofyourmind]

For Gary Gibbs, it was his 4th year, 1992, going 5-4-2, but it was the loss to Kansas that year that really sealed the deal.

For John Blake, it was his 1st year, 1996, when he opened the year with 4 losses in a row, and on that 4th loss I knew it was just a terrible hire, and yep, it was Kansas again.

I knew Howard Schnellenburger was the wrong guy the moment I heard it announced.

 

[batchaps4me]

Not sure I have ever wanted a coach fired, moment of clarity style. Coach Chizic brought home a natty, but damn it was hard to watch a football team not be able to tackle. There were games that I was sure we had more missed tackles than yards. I still think that he got shafted on the firing because of the natty but if you cannot win one conference game, well ...

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

I will admit, we gave Dick Rod an extremely short leash, shorter than Strong at UT, but he clearly wanted to fully tear it down and not use any of the assets he was left with, which lead to his quick demise. Atleast Hoke ran some forms of spread because he knew that's the type of players he had in season 1. With that said, Hoke was the worst coach ever at Michigan. That Shane Morris debacle was just a disgrace.

RR had a short leash, but there was little that he did which made it look like progress was being made. If you can't do anything in 3 years, it's unlikely you're going to do more with more time. And I think his time at Arizona is more proof of that. He somehow had a good blend of coaches at WV and the perfect situation that he wasn't able to recreate anywhere else. Hoke was just a bad coach who surrounded himself with bad assistant coaches; hence only Mattison and Nussmeier having jobs currently and Nuss is about to get the boot for sucking so bad at Florida.

 

[Cowboyinexile]

For Gary Gibbs, it was his 4th year, 1992, going 5-4-2, but it was the loss to Kansas that year that really sealed the deal.

For John Blake, it was his 1st year, 1996, when he opened the year with 4 losses in a row, and on that 4th loss I knew it was just a terrible hire, and yep, it was Kansas again.

I knew Howard Schnellenburger was the wrong guy the moment I heard it announced.

I don't see how Schnellenburger was hired in the first place. Everyone knew right away he wasn't even a functioning alcoholic. How in the world does something that glaring not pass a background check?

 

[Scapegoat]

Mine would have to be DickRod's second year when he lost to Purdue at home. I knew he needed to GTFO! That shit was straight embarrassing after the early 4-0 or 5-0 start.

Every moment John Blake was head coach at OU.

 

[outofyourmind]

When Howard said this, I knew it was over before it started.

"THEY BROUGHT ME IN NOT TO RUN THE WISHBONE"

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[Goldbug]

I played golf with Gary Gibbs a couple of times. He wouldn't say 20 words to anyone the whole day. One time I smacked a drive that ended up a couple of feet from Gary's. We walked down the fairway together (in silence) and when I asked him "Is that your ball?". He didn't say anything; he just nodded his head. I asked the other guys in our foursome what the fuck was wrong with him and they said "That's just Gary". Yea......an egotistical prick who spoke condescendingly to everyone. I was elated to see that SOB get fired for losing too many big games and then acting like nothing had happened.

 

[8085sooner]

Watching Tevon Austin run all over OU defense and that DUMBASS look on Mike Stoops face. Oh trust me, there have been many more since, but that was the 1st

 

[Kaplony]

Hatfield - Oct 31 1992 Sitting in the visitor's section of Groves Stadium watching Wake Forest repeatedly shut down the supposed offensive wizard's offense.

West - 1998 Virginia Tech 37 Clemson 0. West had changed offensive coordinators and offenses like most people change underwear and it was enough.

Bowden - Nov 17 2007 I knew after losing to BC that Clemson would never win a championship under Bowden.
This was cemented in the 2008 season opener against Alabama in Atlanta when Bowden gave the first play from scrimmage to a true freshman RB as a recruiting payback, which he promptly fumbled.