COACHES HOT SEAT BLOG

The ballots for the Week 2 Coaches Hot Seat Coach of the Week were late getting in this week, because we have all been working like crazy in our real jobs to free up time to head south to LA-LA land for the Ohio State – USC game on Saturday night.  Hopefully, some of us will get out of the Bay today and make it to the land of 30,000 actresses playing waitresses in their day jobs!  Now on to our Coaches Hot Seat Coach of the Week/Week 2, our “Goat” Coach of the Week, and a new award that we will only give out when necessary and earned, the “Cry Baby” Coach of the Week:

 

Week 2 Coaches Hot Seat Coach of the Week

Coach:  Skip Holtz

School:  East Carolina

 

Who else could be the Coach of the Weekbut Skip Holtz who has the East Carolina Pirates playing like men possessed?  Earlier this summer we pulled out the Boise State – East Carolina bowl game just to remind us how well ECU was playing late last year, and Man-O-Man the Holtz had the Pirates playing well at the end of ‘07!  Then to start the ’08 season off with Holtz brings out the Pirates and they beat Va. Tech and West Virginia, and damn Holtz and the Pirates look like they are having a great time playing the game of football.  Another thing that stands out to us is that Skip Holtz has a very happy-go-lucky attitude towards coaching, but his football team plays with the physical style of a SEC team.  It is just a lot of fun to watch a football team that is having fun and is playing physical, and Holtz has the Pirates doing just that.  What a great start for the ECU Pirates, but where they go from here is a very interesting parlor question.  Looking what ECU has left on their ’08 schedule, their toughest games look to be at NC State on 9/20, at Virginia on 10/11, at UCF on 11/2, and at Southern Miss on 11/15.  We believe the toughest game left on ECU’s schedule is at UCF on 11/2 and at Southern Miss on 11/15, if Larry Fedora can keep improving the Southern Miss offense.  Can Holtz and East Carolina run the table?  Yes, but we would give them an 11-1 regular season record right now if we were forced to guess at this moment.

 

Congratulations to Skip Holtz and the ECU Pirates for a great start!  Keep it up!

 

Week 2 Coaches Hot Seat “Goat” Coach of the Week

Coach:  Bill Stewart 

School:  West Virginia

 

We didn’t have many nominees for the Week 2 “Goat” Coach of the Week, mainly because it was “Cupcakes” almost all the way across the board, but the performance by Bill Stewart and his West Virginia Mountaineers was just bad enough to nose out a couple of other coaches.  Let’s just be honest here, we took a look at the amount of talent on this West Virginia team and their ’08 schedule and predicted at least 10 wins for this team, and they are not off to the best of starts to reach that 10 win mark.  No, a transition year is not easy, but Bill Stewart was on Rodriguez’s staff for several years, and he should have been able to bring these Mountaineers out of the gate roaring.  The ECU Pirates lined up and whipped Bill Stewart’s West Virginia team last Saturday and that performance earns Stewart the Week 2 CHS “Goat” Coach of the Week, and it has also put him on the Hot Seat!  Looking ahead, things don’t get any easier for the Mountaineers with a Thursday 9/18 matchup with Colorado in Boulder, CO.  The Colorado game is a must-win game for Bill Stewart and WVU, and Stewart will have the national stage that night to prove that he actually has control of the reigns in Morgantown, or if people are going to start saying: “Morgantown, we have a problem.”  If WVU does lose to Colorado, the rest of the ’08 West Virginia schedule will start to look a lot tougher, and the pressure will only continue to rise!

 

No claps or cheers to Bill Stewart for winning the Week 2 Coaches Hot Seat “Goat” Coach of the Week!

 

Week 2 Coaches Hot Seat “Cry Baby” Coach of the Week

Coach:  Randy Shannon

Team:  Miami

 

Randy, we love almost everything that you are doing with the Miami football team: off-the-field, recruiting, and the Hurricanes even looked pretty good against Florida except for the offense, but this crying about Urban Meyer and the Gators kicking a field goal at the end of the game last Saturday has earned you the first ever Coaches Hot Seat “Cry Baby” Coach of the Week!  It is your job as the head coach at Miami to make sure your football team stops the other team, and that applies for the entire football game until the clock says 0:00.  This crying about those 3 points and saying things like:  “Sometimes when you do things and people see what kind of person you really are, you turn a lot of people off. Take from that what you want. It helped us more than you will ever know” after the game with the Gators only causes us to lose respect for you and to wonder why it bothers you so.  If you can be bothered by something so meaningless, then what else can you be bothered by, and are you really ready to lead one of the top programs in the country?  From what we are hearing from South Florida you are making some great strides at Miami and up until you started “crying like a baby” we were right there with you, but now we are paying very close attention to see if anything else pops up.  We have had Randy Shannon on the Hot Seat for awhile now, because any head coach of the Miami Hurricanes that has a losing record should be on the Hot Seat, and after the Florida beatdown we are all going to find out what the Hurricanes are really made of as they play out the rest of the ’08 season.

 

Our condolences to Randy Shannon for winning the Week 2 Coaches Hot Seat “Cry Baby” Coach of the Week!

 

Well, we get Week 3 kicked-off tonight with an interesting game between North Carolina and Rutgers in New Jersey on the seventh anniversary of 9/11.  It should be a very emotional night for the people of New Jersey.  Many of us here at Coaches Hot Seatwill be leaving the Bay for the Southland early this afternoon, and we can’t wait to see that football game between the Buckeyes and Trojans!

 

As is always the case when heading to Los Angeles we are ready to Take it to the Limit!

 

 

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