COACHES HOT SEAT BLOG

With the season upon us Coaches Hot Seat rolls out its Second Annual Hippopotamus Standards for 2008!  What are the Hippopotamus Standards you must be asking yourself?  That’s easy to answer:

 Hippopotamus Standards = How many games a team would win if our HIPPO “BOB” was their head coach in 2008.

With the addition of the twelfth game to the college football landscape, schools have really softened up their schedules and there needs to be a minimum number of games that a coach and team should win each year.  Thus, the Hippopotamus Standards!  Because conference play has gotten so much tougher in recent years, we have been very lenient on the number of minimum wins a coach needs to get to equal what HIPPO “BOB” would do, but “BOB” will be lurking for those coaches that trip and stumble this year as the season unfolds.

The Hippopotamus Standards reveal one of two things:  1. How well a head football coach is doing and how high the minimum expectations have become for his program or;  2. How badly a head football coach is doing relative to what even a HIPPO like “BOB” could do with his team.  Either way, there is a minimum number of games a head coach should win, and what a better comparison than to what our favorite zoo animal, HIPPO “BOB” would do if had the reigns of “your” football team.

Don’t think the HIPPO STANDARDS mean much?  In 2007 we had 20 coaches that did not beat HIPPO “BOB” and another 16 coaches that only equaled what HIPPO “BOB” could have done!  (2007 HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS)  After 36 coaches were either beaten by or equaled by HIPPO “BOB” in ’07, we ”unsharpened” our pencil a bit and eased up on the coaches a little more in 2008, and thus we present to you the:

2008 HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS

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