Alex, Richard, and Godfrey spend this subscriber episode reopening some of college football’s ugliest firing files: the decisions that looked reckless in the moment, the ones that aged like bad cheese, and the cases where the process was the bad before the next hire even got started. The trip runs from Nebraska and Washington through FIU, East Carolina, Maryland, and Ole Miss, with athletic directors getting at least as much scrutiny as the fired coaches.
In this episode:
2:23: The honorable-mention bucket, including Bo Pelini, Larry Coker, Jeff Jagodzinski, Rick Neuheisel, and Mike Price.
17:24: Nebraska actually gets its own division, with Frank Solich tagging in
22:13: Mario Cristobal at FIU, an incomprehensible mistake
32:38: Ruffin McNeill at East Carolina, which becomes a real AD disaster tale
41:27: Ralph Friedgen at Maryland is arguably the worst of all, feat. a James Franklin “coach in waiting” mess
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Producer: Anthony Vito
