Phil Longo out at Wisconsin
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Nebraska fires their OCoordinator with 3 games remaining in the season.
Wisconsin fires their OCoordinator with two games remaining.
Ferentz must think he's living in some sort of alternative universe hell. Or as he would put it, 'That's football...today. A sign of the times."
I don't know what Fickell was expecting...Wisky had recruited for decades at every position to build a system and team built on power running the ball. And then expect an 'Air Raid' coach to come in and have immediate success? Seems a little delusional.
Wisconsin fires their OCoordinator with two games remaining.
Ferentz must think he's living in some sort of alternative universe hell. Or as he would put it, 'That's football...today. A sign of the times."
I don't know what Fickell was expecting...Wisky had recruited for decades at every position to build a system and team built on power running the ball. And then expect an 'Air Raid' coach to come in and have immediate success? Seems a little delusional.
Fryowa
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I call it the nebraska effect.
Success in the past leads delusional fans to revolt. Which leads to donors and administration making influenced decisions to fire very capable coaches winning 9-10 games every year.
Said delusional fans and administration expect a return to success upon hiring new coaches, and when it doesn’t happen within 2 years they begin the same process of musical coaches over again.
The catch is that with every season the program fails, acquiring a capable head coach becomes more difficult because 1) going to work for a loser is less appealing, 2) coaches know their tenure (and HC career) will likely end being fired and with a legacy of embarrassment, and 3) every year the program sucks recruiting becomes more and more impossible. Once recruiting becomes impossible it’s game over. All you’re left with as HC candidates are middling no-namers chasing cash who don’t care what their legacies are as long as the checks keep clearing.
Wisconsin is about 39% down this road at present. I hope Paul Chryst is on a beach somewhere laughing his ass off.
