Patience growing thinner for college coaches
It was once a given that a coach would be granted at least five years to build a program into a winner, but those days are long gone. Five years? Coaches such as Michigan’s Rich Rodriguez, Miami’s Randy Shannon, UCLA’s Rick Neuheisel and Minnesota’s Tim Brewster are already feeling the pressure …
During a five-year span from 2005-09, BCS Conference schools introduced 50 new head coaches, firing seven before their five-year contracts were even fulfilled — Kansas State’s Ron Prince (three years), Stanford’s Walt Harris (two years), Washington’s Tyrone Willingham (four years), Louisville’s Steve Kragthorpe (three years), Syracuse’s Greg Robinson (four years), Boston College’s Jeff Jagodzinski (two years) and Mississippi’s Ed Orgeron (three years).
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