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Which Fired NCAA football coaches were biggest disappointments?


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I like this graphic. it is pretty interesting stuff. This site has had some good graphs in the past.

 

One thing really got me, though. They are trying to quantify something that you can't quantify very well. Expectations, and the reasons coaches are fired.

 

People who don't follow Husker football just look at Pelini's record, and make their assumptions from there. Like this quote from the article:

 

But to really judge success, you've got to put it alongside expectations. #BOlievers proclaim Bo Pelini won at least nine games in his seven seasons at Nebraska, which might sound amazing to Iowa State fans, but for a school that's only missed two bowl games since 1969, that didn't quite meet high expectations so Pelini was fired.

 

 

Later on in the article they acknowledge the difficulty in quantifying why a coach is fired:

 

And coaches like Dennis Franchioneand Gary Barnett had teams with declining success but also had off-field issues, where the cause of their release has a bit of chicken-and-egg. In these instances, coaches weren't put on the list since it wasn't entirely clear the on-field struggles got them canned.

... But in Pelini's case the reason was obvious, right?

 

Take the heavily edited results with a grain of salt.

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