College football coaches are on a continuous carousel. In this day in age coaches come and go. It's not like in the old days when a coach could coach for years at the same school and know that his job was secure. Things sure have changed. Today, if coaches have one bad year they are put onto the hot seat and have alumni breathing down their neck. Sometimes coaches don't even have the ability to get a full recruiting class through before they are kicked to the curb. This year is no different as there has already been a lot of coaching changes thus far.
A few weeks ago I wrote about Phillip Fulmer being asked to step down as Tennessee head coach. He roamed the sidelines at Tennessee for 17 seasons and only had three losing seasons. Fulmer won a National Championship in 1998 and recruited Peyton Manning, but that wasn't even enough to keep his job. A few weeks later we are out with the old and in with the new. This past week Tennessee hired Lane Kiffin to be their new head coach and lead them in the right direction. Kiffin, the former Oakland Raiders head coach, received a six year contract that will pay him an average of 2.375 million per year. Kiffin, 33, will be the youngest head coach in division one college football. Kiffin has been given the reigns to one of the most prestigious college football programs in America. He has been told that he can hire his own staff and is very interested in hiring his father Monty Kiffin, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordination, to his staff. Slyvester Croom just recently stepped down as the Mississippi State head coach, leaving just three black active head coaches in division one football. Everyone is speculating the situation developing in South Bend. Notre Dame's Charlie Weis is on the hot seat after being hired just a few seasons ago. It will be interesting to see what happens with that situation.
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