Every Auburn coach since 1975 has been fired
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Serious question: Has there ever been a time when Florida, LSU, Auburn and Arkansas had fired their head coaches mid-season in the same year?
That honestly says a lot about that job being a destination job historically. It really just means that no one ever used it as a stepping stone.
I'm going off of a 10 second thinking session but outside of Mullen, who hasn't been fired at State since 1975? Outside of Vaught, who hasn't been fired at Ole Miss?
Tuberville was not fired at Ole Miss.
Mullen was not fired at State
I think those are it.
it’s just amazing a program of Auburns caliber is sitting at 50 years. Not sure anyone else in the SEC has that streak.
Kentucky?
Leach wasn’t fired
Technically, Pat Dye voluntarily stepped down.
I count forced to resign as a firing. Taking another job or retiring is the key.
Kentucky is the only other SEC team with a streak of 50+ years
Curci - fired after cheating scandal
Claiborne - "retired" but went to coach in the new WLAF
Curry - fired
Mumme - fired
Morriss - fired
Brooks - fired
Joker - fired
Stoops - TBD
Dye probably doesn’t get fired if not for the NCAA mess. Tuberville just hung around too long and let the game pass him by without adapting. Chizik never should have been hired in the first place. Was 5-19 at Iowa State when he got the offer. Malzahn probably deserved a better fate as the actual winner of the natty that Chizik got to claim. Freeze was a giant mistake, a has-been who only won by brazen cheating in a period where there was at least some honor amongst thieves. He can’t do anything when that level of cheating is now the status quo for everyone.
Most everyone else just sucked.
Most everyone else just sucked.
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Auburn firing Freeze is like the 3x divorcee “divorcing” number 4. The common denominator is pretty clear. It’s YOU Auburn, not Freeze.
Rich Brooks wasn’t fired. UK named Phillips coach-in-waiting (a short lived fad) in 2009 and Brooks retired in January of 2010 after their bowl game.
I think a clearer way to state this is. 'How many coaches have left voluntarily without outside influence.' That covers situations where a coach chooses to 'resign' or 'retire' but is nudged into doing so like jackie, or as in Leach's case, passes away.
I can think of three but there were probably a few more. Those three were Murray Warmath Darrell Royal and Dan Mullen. Ironically, the first two listed went on to win a natty at another program. In the last 50 years the only coach to leave State completely of his own volition was Dan Mullen.
Croom say, "I wasn't fired; I was axed to resign."
Technically Terry Bowden actually resigned after 6 games in '98 but the writing was on the wall and he would most likely been fired anyway
Not really. Unless you’re leaving for another job or retiring (which is rare) that’s the only options. And Auburn isn’t a stepping stone job.