Nick Saban's shadow looms over SEC coaching turnover since 2007
Alabama's employed the same title-winning coach since 2007. The rest of the SEC is at 41 coaches and counting.
A few hours after firing Mike Riley, Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos candidly discussed potential candidates for the Cornhuskers’ vacancy. When asked about Kevin Sumlin, then at Texas A&M, and Bret Bielema, then at Arkansas, Moos delved into the murky coaching waters of the Southeastern Conference.
“That SEC, they eat their young,” Moos said. “I don’t care. I’ve said worse. You just look at the record of not giving a coach adequate time. There’s no patience.”
Scott Frost wasn’t mentioned in that diatribe. But the comment might well have been a bat signal flung into the sky with the hope Frost would see it. UCF’s head coach would have his choice of several jobs this offseason, including in the SEC, and Moos wanted the former Cornhusker quarterback to know that, at least at Nebraska, he’d have time to build a program.
With six SEC head coaching changes already this offseason – with potentially more to come – Moos has a point.
The SEC is the most competitive conference in the country, and its coaching turnover reflects it. Consider that in the last decade, two national championship-winning head coaches, LSU’s Les Miles and Auburn’s Gene Chizik, have been fired.
Every SEC team but one has replaced its head coach at least once since 2007. Five programs – Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt – have done so three-plus times. In total, 42 coaches have occupied SEC jobs since 2007 – once this round of hires is complete. In other words, three head men per school.
There is a single constant in that 11-year period: Nick Saban.
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