Akron just fired Coach Tom Arth in his 3rd season with the Zips with 3 games left in the season.
Terry Bowden was 35-52 with the Zips, which sounds terrible. Terry got Akron into 2 bowl games, where the Zips hardly ever show up throughout history.
But you have to put it in perspective: NO coach has had a winning career at Akron since Jim Dennison won 56.3% of the time in 1973-85. Think of it, 56.3% is a high-water mark at Akron, a death knell for coaches!
Since, Gerry Faust came from Notre Dame and an amazing Cincinnati high school coaching career to go 44.9%, Lee Owens was 39.6%, J.D. Brookhart was 41.7%, Rob Ianello was 8.3% (yes!) with 2 victories in 24 games, Terry was 40.2% and now Tom Art is 5.6% (1 victory in 18 games!).
When you look at the comparative numbers Terry sure looks a lot better. Akron is a LONG way from Alabama or WVU!
Terry Bowden was 35-52 with the Zips, which sounds terrible. Terry got Akron into 2 bowl games, where the Zips hardly ever show up throughout history.
But you have to put it in perspective: NO coach has had a winning career at Akron since Jim Dennison won 56.3% of the time in 1973-85. Think of it, 56.3% is a high-water mark at Akron, a death knell for coaches!
Since, Gerry Faust came from Notre Dame and an amazing Cincinnati high school coaching career to go 44.9%, Lee Owens was 39.6%, J.D. Brookhart was 41.7%, Rob Ianello was 8.3% (yes!) with 2 victories in 24 games, Terry was 40.2% and now Tom Art is 5.6% (1 victory in 18 games!).
When you look at the comparative numbers Terry sure looks a lot better. Akron is a LONG way from Alabama or WVU!
Next topic should be how many cheeseburgers Mangino was eating when he led Kansas to a top 5 ranking in football.