Steve Sarkisian Has One Question For Every College Football Team That Fired Its Coach

The storyline of nan 2025 assemblage shot play has been nan firing of coaches midseason. Numerous precocious floor plan coaches—like Penn State’s James Franklin and LSU’s Brian Kelly—have been fired this year, on pinch Auburn’s Hugh Freeze, Florida’s Billy Napier, Arkansas’s Sam Pittman, Virginia Tech’s Brent Pry, Oregon State’s Trent Bray, Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy, UCLA’s DeShaun Foster, Colorado State’s Jay Norvell and UAB’s Trent Dilfer.

With each of these firings taking spot before nan extremity of nan season, the coaching carousel is expected to beryllium much action-packed than ever this offseason. However, firing a caput coach doesn’t mean that a squad will prosecute nan correct 1 connected their adjacent try.

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian posed a mobility on those lines arsenic he weighed successful connected nan firings arsenic of late, as schools wrestle pinch nan ample buyouts required to make a coaching move.

“If you're not consenting to salary a coach what his statement is, good possibly you're astir apt not gonna get 1 of nan coaches you thought you mightiness get,” Sarkisian told reporters this week. “I ever find it absorbing ... everybody wants to occurrence their coach, who you gonna hire? There's each these jobs retired location correct now, who's everybody going to hire? I don’t know, we’ll find out.”

Firing a coach astatine midseason has officially go normalized this season, and Sarkisian wisely pointed retired that this deficiency of occupation information whitethorn not make a coaching position very attractive.

“Who wants to return a occupation pinch nan magnitude of unit that coaches are under, nan magnitude of scrutiny they’re under, nan magnitude of 1 week you’re a leader nan adjacent week you’re a zero mentality that fanbases and group wanna have,” Sarkisian noted. “Surely coaches want immoderate information to what they motion up to spell do. We activity really hard. I get it, we each wanna triumph and we’re each busting our tails to effort to triumph and sometimes things don’t spell your way, particularly successful our conference, it’s tough. ... Somebody has sewage to beryllium consenting to say. ‘Hey, let’s spot if this tin activity itself out.’ Not each year, not each 16 teams successful nan SEC are gonna spell to nan playoffs. It’s conscionable not reality. We’re talking astir trying to get 4 aliases 5 successful this year, past twelvemonth we sewage three.”

This offseason will not only beryllium absorbing to spot who each these teams extremity up hiring, but to spot complete nan coming years if these moves either cookware retired aliases backfire. Will these teams’ deficiency of patience travel backmost to wound and make them salary different buyout? Or will they beryllium to beryllium conscionable what immoderate of these teams needed to move their programs around?

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