No mercy in SEC.
Charlie Weis comes up with the worst year in the long and storied history of Notre Dame football, bounces back with a mediocre year and an offense that can’t get a first down against USC until late in the third quarter, and he’s granted immunity on the island.
Tommy Tuberville put together a program that’s just four years removed from being on the wrong end of the mother of all BCS national title debates, had won five bowl games in six years before this season, and had beaten arch-rival Alabama six years in a row, an eternity in this series, and he’s fired after losing to a Tide team that’s No. 1 in America and a game away from playing for the national title.
Welcome to the SEC. Coach at your own risk.
Phil Fulmer had Tennessee in the SEC championship game last year. Last week he was carried off the field while Lane Kiffin was busy seeing how he looked in Dreamsicle orange.
Sylvester Croom took the SEC’s most impossible coaching situation, next to the Vanderbilt gig, and made Mississippi State more than just competitive with a solid 8-5 2007 and the first bowl appearance since 2000. His team struggled this year with no offense and an injured defense, and he “resigned.”
Next year at this time we’ll know if Notre Dame was right or wrong by letting Weis get one more year with the guys he put in place and helped develop over the last two years. If he was in the SEC, he wouldn’t have gotten that same shot.
Source: CollegeFootballNews.com
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