Coaching Hot Seat Watch

[sendacash]

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2...eview-hot-seat-watch-mike-london-tim-beckman/


I'm somewhat surprised to see the "Mad Hatter" on here, I suppose patience is not a virtue in the SEC. Think the OBC has at least one more trick up his sleeve. Love the pic of Beamer celebrating after a nil-nil standoff vs Wake, might want to reconsider that +10? I agree Al Golden has certainly under delivered and props for the Dan Hawkins reference as well. Speaking of Colorado, not sure coach Mac's seat is quite that hot up in Boulder. While its true, you hear almost nothing from this program these days, but that includes a lack of pitchforks and torches as well.

 

[NoCoke]

Spurrier will never be fired here. I can promise you that.

 

[GoSooners]

Beckman and London should have been fired years ago. I don't get it at all why they retained London. He had his most experienced and talented team last year and they still couldn't even make it to a bowl. After that performance, what made the Virginia AD think he was going to do any better in the future?

 

[cloverleaf]

Spurrier will never be fired here. I can promise you that.

+ 1

 

[cloverleaf]

I realize it's only his second season, but Derek Mason (Vanderbilt) is so over his head in the SEC that it's shameful.
Mason went 3-9 last year after Vandy had gone 9-4 each of the past two seasons.

The guy should never have been hired in the first place. Black AD runs out and hires the first black coach he could
find to take the Vandy job. Hell, fire the athletic director.

Vanderbilt will be lucky to win two/three games this season.

 

[DropDimes]

100% agree on Mason being in over his head. I know multiple position coaches and support staffers that stayed at their current schools and turned down what would be promotions at Vandy because they are worried he wont be around long.

 

[GoSooners]

I don't think I've ever seen a team fall as fast or as hard as Vandy did after Franklin left...

 

[TyBounce]

I don't think I've ever seen a team fall as fast or as hard as Vandy did after Franklin left...

Yeah me neither. I incorrectly stated last year in the off season that losing Franklin would hurt them long term but it wouldn't be overnight. ....boy was i wrong !

 

[rolltide]

no doubt franklin put up a nice pair of season b2b at vandy but let's not rewrite history here. he was 11-13 in the SEC

obviously that's a lot better than last year's 0-8 but hardly a long way to fall from mediocre to bad

 

[GoSooners]

no doubt franklin put up a nice pair of season b2b at vandy but let's not rewrite history here. he was 11-13 in the SEC

obviously that's a lot better than last year's 0-8 but hardly a long way to fall from mediocre to bad

C'mon RT, last year Vandy looked nothing like Franklin's teams of the last 2 years...nothing. You expect at least a little continuance with a new coaching staff. But it wasn't there at all.

 

[cloverleaf]

Vanderbilt looks like a division II team. Give me 7.5 points and I would take North Alabama over Vanderbilt.

 

[TyBounce]

no doubt franklin put up a nice pair of season b2b at vandy but let's not rewrite history here. he was 11-13 in the SEC

obviously that's a lot better than last year's 0-8 but hardly a long way to fall from mediocre to bad

Bobby Johnson had vandy at least "respectable" his last few years and then franklin took them to a higher level , but they've gotten so bad they are in uncharted waters. ...This is worse than woody and denardo.

 

[PigskinArmor]

Vanderbilt looks like a division II team. Give me 7.5 points and I would take North Alabama over Vanderbilt.

Vanderbilt has an offense without any defense. Will North Alabama score enough on them?

 

[MattyMatt]

Spurrier will never be fired here. I can promise you that.

Unfortunately, this is true.

 

[groundhog11]

Holgerson, kinsbury, fedora are on the hot seat....I think London is done after this yr...

 

[CoachCB]

Beckman and London should have been fired years ago. I don't get it at all why they retained London. He had his most experienced and talented team last year and they still couldn't even make it to a bowl. After that performance, what made the Virginia AD think he was going to do any better in the future?

London should have never gotten the job in the first place. He rode Dave Clawson's coattails (now head coach at Wake Forest), inherited the Richmond job (a program that Clawson built), won a national title in his first year then got the UVA job. UVA hired him for one reason: he's black. They wanted a minority and they got one....and an unproven head coach. I personally thought he'd do well there...but I was way, way off!

Not sure why Spurrier would even be mentioned.

Frank Beamer overstayed his welcome (similar situation to Bobby Bowden). Just trying to hang on too long. Should have walked away about 5 years ago. Now he has the balls to say he wants his son to get the job.

Al Golden would have normally gotten canned 2 years ago, but Miami can't afford to fire him!

 

[groundhog11]

London should have never gotten the job in the first place. He rode Dave Clawson's coattails (now head coach at Wake Forest), inherited the Richmond job (a program that Clawson built), won a national title in his first year then got the UVA job. UVA hired him for one reason: he's black. They wanted a minority and they got one....and an unproven head coach. I personally thought he'd do well there...but I was way, way off!

Not sure why Spurrier would even be mentioned.

Frank Beamer overstayed his welcome (similar situation to Bobby Bowden). Just trying to hang on too long. Should have walked away about 5 years ago. Now he has the balls to say he wants his son to get the job.

Al Golden would have normally gotten canned 2 years ago, but Miami can't afford to fire him!

inthink they thought London could recruit the Chesapeake/Norfolk kids away from vt..

 

[groundhog11]

London should have never gotten the job in the first place. He rode Dave Clawson's coattails (now head coach at Wake Forest), inherited the Richmond job (a program that Clawson built), won a national title in his first year then got the UVA job. UVA hired him for one reason: he's black. They wanted a minority and they got one....and an unproven head coach. I personally thought he'd do well there...but I was way, way off!

Not sure why Spurrier would even be mentioned.

Frank Beamer overstayed his welcome (similar situation to Bobby Bowden). Just trying to hang on too long. Should have walked away about 5 years ago. Now he has the balls to say he wants his son to get the job.

Al Golden would have normally gotten canned 2 years ago, but Miami can't afford to fire him!

They are are saying beamer is gone after that tenn game at the nascar stadium

 

[BigdaddyQH]

West Virginia may be in trouble because most of their returning talent is on the defensive side of the ball, and Holgorsen does not know what that word means. They have a shot at improvement because of a soft non-con schedule and getting Texas Tech, Texas and Iowa State at home. That, plus a game at Kansas may be enough to give them 7 wins and a bowl game.

London will be very lucky to repeat last year's 5 win total. Non con games at UCLA, and at home to Notre Dame, William and Mary, and Boise State add up to a 1-3 start. There is no way short of a miracle they go 4-4 in conference play. London is 11-25 since his 8-5 start at UVA. He should be finished after this season.

At Va. Tech, HC Beamer calls his own shots. He will retire after next season, which will be his 30th. It plays out well, because Tech's last game of the 2016 regular season is at home against Virginia. He also has 15 starters returning this year, so do not sell him short.

Al Golden starts his 5th year at Miami, and it could be his last. Golden could have walked away from Miami when they were going through all of their problems, but he stuck it out. He deserved to coach there for 5 years. This season is year 5. Things are different. He has never defeated Florida State, and and he has never lost less than 4 games. Both of those things had better change if he wants to see 2016 in Miami.

 

[rolltide]

C'mon RT, last year Vandy looked nothing like Franklin's teams of the last 2 years...nothing. You expect at least a little continuance with a new coaching staff. But it wasn't there at all.

but you are acting like the franklin years weren't an anomaly. They were 1-15 in SEC before he got there and will be 1-15 after he left so just a resumption of futility IMHO. he put in a few nice years in a very down SEC east and parlayed that into a big contract at state penn. good for him...i guess