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Boise St. fires offensive coordinator day after loss

Less than 24 hours after losing to UTEP, 27-10, and dropping to 2-2 on the season, Boise State coach Andy Avalos announced on Saturday that he's fired offensive coordinator Tim Plough, replacing him with offensive analyst Dirk Koetter.

www.espn.com

 

[montana_cat]

Yea, I’ve been fired

 

[montana_cat]

A long time ago. It stung but life went on.

 

[Sheffielder]

I will acknowledge for myself, personally, I've never liked how impatient college football fans get with progress and change. I don't think it's good for the sport in general for coaches to worry about their jobs game after game. On the flipside, it encourages coaches and their agents to ask for ridiculous guarantees during good times and then the whole thing escalates to an overall adversarial relationship between all of us - fans paying through the nose for tickets/parking, coaches having one bad game and people demanding turnover, 20 players leaving every season because free agency is a thing, etc.

That being said, I would LOVE to know what Fitz is really thinking right now. Does he really think his coordinators just need more time to hit their stride? Or does he know he's made catastrophic decisions as the head coach but can't bear telling a guy like JON who just bought a house, enrolled his kids in school, etc. that he's fired? Or does he have no idea what's wrong, and should maybe consider why he deserves $5M/year other than he has a good agent?

 

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Boise St. fires offensive coordinator day after loss

Less than 24 hours after losing to UTEP, 27-10, and dropping to 2-2 on the season, Boise State coach Andy Avalos announced on Saturday that he's fired offensive coordinator Tim Plough, replacing him with offensive analyst Dirk Koetter.

www.espn.com

Looks like Georgia Tech is firing head coach Geoff Collins. Three three-win seasons and a 1-3 start with a loss to UCF yesterday. (19-70 for Bowser).

 

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Update: Georgia Tech fires both Geoff Collins and the AD.

 

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A long time ago. It stung but life went on.

I've been laid off twice. Both due to business conditions, not performance. Once in the middle of the financial meltdown (2009) and once in the middle of the pandemic (2020). One had a decent severance, the other didn't.

JON and Jake have pretty good contracts, I'm sure they will be ok. They must see the writing on the wall. Heck, they could probably get analysts jobs in a week or 2.

I will lose no sleep worrying about the well-being of underperforming/overpaid stiffs

 

[Sheffielder]

I've been laid off twice. Both due to business conditions, not performance. Once in the middle of the financial meltdown (2009) and once in the middle of the pandemic (2020). One had a decent severance, the other didn't.

JON and Jake have pretty good contracts, I'm sure they will be ok. They must see the writing on the wall. Heck, they could probably get analysts jobs in a week or 2.

I will lose no sleep worrying about the well-being of underperforming/overpaid stiffs

I totally agree with you on this; just pondering the "why" and how Fitz's brain works. I suspect he is a decent man who feels obligated to his staff, and $5M/year doesn't make this conversation easier for him. It will never be "just business" for Fitz, which really complicates things when you're on a three-game skid to bad teams on the heels of a really bad season.