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November 29, 2007
National Firing Day? ESPN Would Love It
Columnist John Bridges is a little shocked how quickly some of the college coaching hires have been done. It took less than 24 hours for Houston Nutt to move from Arkansas to Mississippi.
It took only a single interview with Mike Sherman (who the AD previously didn't even know) for Sherman to take over the Aggies. The best part is that Sherman will be the 3rd highest paid employee of the State of Texas, just behind Mack Brown and the still vacant position of University President at the school he is going to be coaching at. President search time, over a year. College football coach, less than a day.
Technically, according to Bridges, this should have taken at least 10 days by law since it is a state paid position. But the AD was able to get an exemption because of an emergency. The emergency was possibly losing recruits which Dennis Franchione had already lured to the school.
Seems to me that the ex-coach of the team did more to ruin the recruiting class than a vacancy at the top for 10 days. And it also seems that the guidance of one of the ten biggest universities in America would be a little more of an emergency. Are you telling me that over the course of a year you can't find an educator qualified for the job in a year's time, yet you can be certain about Mike Sherman who has never been a college head coach?
Bridges suggests that the NCAA goes to a National Firing Day, much like National Signing Day, where coaches can be hired and fired all within 24 hours. Of course, it would be televised on ESPN. At least then we could get rid of the charade that some amount of due diligence has been done on these coaching hires.
Posted by bmiraski at November 29, 2007 9:40 AM
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