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Blood bowl 2 hotseat12/16/2023 If he wasn’t, he wouldn’t have won a national title, a pair of conference titles and Big XII coach of the year awards and produced two players in Vince Young and Colt McCoy who will be remembered as some of the best quarterbacks the college game has ever seen. Maybe it was payback from a well coached, young and talented Rebel program but given the embarrassing loss to BYU, the firing of Texas DC Manny Diaz and the resurgence of criticisms head coach Mack Brown has been hearing for years, the Ole Miss game was a must-win, if such a game ever existed in September. Instead, Texas got pummeled in Provo and followed it up with another disappointing loss, this time at home, to Ole Miss, who the Horns destroyed in Oxford last season. Had Texas squeaked out a win instead of taking a 19 point beating in a game that was never in doubt from the start, nobody would be talking about Mack Brown’s job (yet). This year Longhorn fans saw firsthand why scheduling an out of conference road game against a solid, but not spectacular program leaves you with almost nothing to gain, but a Texas sized ton to lose. Sure, nine times out of ten Texas pummels Brigham Young, or at worst, gives the BYU faithful three and a half quarters of close football before putting the nail in the coffin and heading forward with their season. It’s often said that blue blood programs playing out of conference opponents without their own pedigree, or from a lesser conference, on the road is not a risk worth taking. Mack Brown could be on the way out in Austin. There are notable exceptions, like Tennessee’s Derek Dooley last season, who was essentially a dead man walking before the season kicked off, but less than a month into the 2013 NCAA season, some big names at even bigger universities may be walking the plank come December (or sooner). Still, it’s unlikely that by mid-September that the future of a head coach is all but decided, especially at a perennial powerhouse program. We’re only a couple of years removed from Joe Paterno’s Shakesperean fall from grace in the most notorious scandal in college football history. Bobby Petrino set the gold standard for crashing and burning, by doing it literally, and sparking a domino effect that has four new coaches at the helm in the SEC this fall. Will Taggart be fired anytime soon? No, probably not- but Seminole fans are not happy.The college football coaching carousel is a constantly spinning wheel, year in and year out and no program is immune to having to clean house. This is a team that Florida State had no business struggling against. They have started the season 1-1, losing to Virginia Tech in Week 1 and then nearly losing to Samford in Week 2. ![]() ![]() Willie Taggart’s career at Florida State, attempting to replace Jimbo Fisher, hasn’t started out as he hoped it would. We move across the state of Florida to Tallahassee. To lose to Kentucky, a team that Florida has beat 31 seasons in a row, in your SEC opener isn’t exactly the best way to get boosters on your side. However, he hasn’t exactly started his career as head coach of the Gators on a strong footing. Now, is Mullen going to be fired if he doesn’t win this week? No. I’ll get things started with Dan Mullen over at Florida. Let’s start with those who are getting the honorable mention of hot seats, not exactly a place you want to be in but here they are.
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