It is going to be very interesting to see if native of Ottumwa, Iowa Chris Ash can be a success as a head coach at Rutgers which is defacto foreign country to folks that didn’t grow up in the New York – New Jersey region of America, and if Ash is a success in turning Rutgers into again a semi-respectable football team then he will have achieved something mighty impressive indeed.
In the previous 20 years before Chris Ash took over the Rutgers head coaching job in 2016 the Scarlet Knights….playing in sub-par conferences to the Big Ten for 18 of those 20 years….Rutgers posted .500 or better regular season records in….
8 of 20 seasons
….with 6 of those .500 or better regular seasons coming under now Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano.
The problem that Chris Ash has to deal with as opposed to most Rutgers head football coaches in the past is that the Scarlett Knights are now playing in the very tough….
Big Ten East Division
…which includes the likes of…
Penn State Ohio State Michigan Indiana Maryland Michigan State
….in addition to Rutgers and in our opinion with the Big Ten now playing 9 conference games…
As EVERY Conference in America should be playing today and if you are playing 8 Conference Games like the SEC and ACC you are nothing but Total Damn Cowards and you sure the Hell were not raised by Real American since Real Americans are not Damn Cowards = SEC and ACC Conferences
….if Chris Ash or ANY Rutgers head football coach in the foreseeable future is able to post 6 plus wins a year that will be a MAJOR accomplishment.
In his first year on the job at Rutgers Chris Ash posted records of…
Washington Eastern Michigan Morgan State At Nebraska Ohio State At Illinois Purdue At Michigan Maryland At Penn State At Indiana Michigan State
With ONE sure win on the schedule in Morgan State it looks like 2017 is going to be another slog for Chris Ash and his Rutgers football team which we see posting a record of…
3 – 9 or 4 – 8 at best
….and no doubt if that happens this time next Chris Ash’s rear-end will still be on the Hot Seat heading into the 2018 college football season!
#13 Hot Seat Head Coach – Brad Lambert, Charlotte
2017 will be Brad Lambert’s FIFTH season as the head coach of the Charlotte 49ers who will be entering their THIRD season playing on the FBS level in Conference USA. In the first two seasons in FBS Brad Lambert and his Charlotte football team posted records of…
2015: 2 – 10 2016: 4 – 8
…and Lambert’s records are….
Overall: 16 – 30
CUSA: 3 – 13
Considering the above records so far what are the chances that Brad Lambert can turn Charlotte into a .500-plus team playing in Conference USA on a regular basis?
The chances are Warm-To-Midland at best and primarily because Conference USA has some pretty good football programs in it right now, and secondly because there are very few football programs that have made the jump to FBS and won on a consistent basis until they were an established program for many years.
At Eastern Michigan At Kansas State NC A&T Georgia State At FIU Marshall At Western Kentucky UAB At Old Dominion Middle Tennessee At Southern Miss FAU
Looking over the above schedule we give Charlotte a 50-50 or better chance of winning about…
7 of their 12 games in 2017
…and with that in mind we are expecting Brad Lambert to have his Charlotte team fighting for a bowl berth towards the end of the 2017 season and if not we all know what that means….Yep….Hot Seat for Brad Lambert!
But hold it a second….before we get to Steve Addazio’s Hot Seat status there were a couple of stories in recent weeks on the “situation” that Pac-12 Commish Larry Scott now faces which we call here at Coaches Hot Seat nothing short of a…
Complete Freaking Disaster for the Pac-12 Conference
….which starts with the Pac-12 Network CANNOT be seen across America and in today’s world…
If you CANNOT be seen….you do not Freaking Exist!
Here are those two stories by two fine folks in Jon Wilner and Andy Staples who both know a Helluva lot about college football…
….but FRANKLY, we could care the Hell less about the future of Larry Scott BUT we do care a Helluva lot about the lack of distribution across America of the Pac-12 Network which is something akin to someone tolling long hours to do a great thing BUT who then finds that since no one told the world about his or her great work one cannot help but wonder…
Did that great work even happen?
So is the question that must be asked about the Pac-12 Network…
Does the Pac-12 Network even exist if so few in America can even watch it?
Not really which brings to mind a story about General George Patton getting to Heaven with the Lord Almighty taking Patton by the arm and ushering him into a room where the Greatest Military Minds in Human History are all gathered and Patton looks around the room and says to The Lord:
“This is great…there’s Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon, Sun Tzu, Genghis Khan, Hannibal, William T. Sherman, Saladin, Robert E. Lee, Frederick the Great, Erwin Rommel, and even King David of Israel…but Lord…who the Hell is that fellow sitting over there in the corner?”
The Lord: “Oh, that’s Bob the Cobbler, he lived during a time when there were no wars, but he’s the best Damn military mind of them all!”
“The bigger issue with the Pac-12 Network is the money it generates. Washington State athletic director Bill Moos revealed in a March letter to boosters that the school received only $1.4 million from the network. That puts the Pac-12 far behind the Big Ten and SEC, which have cable networks that should bring in between $8 million and $10 million per school this academic year. In that letter to boosters, Moos wrote his school had projected $5 million or $6 million a year from the network.”
Sorry…but many here at Coaches Hot Seat are old enough to remember the…
Pac-8 Conference and Pac-10 Conference from the 1970s and 1980s
….and thus we know the immense Pac-10 assets that Larry Scott was handed in 2010 which became the Pac-12 in 2011 and the TRUTH is the Pac-12 Conference is now getting around…
$100 Million Dollars LESS in the Marketplace ANNUALLY than it’s worth
….precisely because of the ham-handed and foolish…and also in our opinion…Totally Damn Ivy League Arrogant….decisions that Larry Scott has made in the last five years and by our calculations Larry Scott has already cost the Pac-12 Conference and its 12 member schools….
$300 Million Plus Dollars in Revenue
….which will increase by $100 Million Dollars MORE in 2016!
The Pac-12 Conference’s assets which are mainly the 12 member schools in the Conference are…
Worth A Helluva Lot More Money in the Marketplace
…than Larry Scott and his team of Buffoons in Walnut Creek are now getting for those assets and the TRUTH is the longer that Larry Scott is allowed to hang around and run the Pac-12 Conference the further the conference falls behind the Big Ten and SEC Conferences….PERIOD!
Now just how Damn long are the so-called “CEOs” or rather the Presidents and Chancellors of the Pac-12 Conference schools…..
Arizona State: Michael Crow Oregon State: Ed Ray UCLA: Gene Block Colorado: Bruce Benson USC: Max Nikias Arizona: Ann Weaver Hart Utah: David Pershing Cal: Nickolas Dirks Oregon: Michael Schill Washington: Ana Mari Cauce Washington State: Kirk Schulz Stanford: Marc Tessier-Lavigne
….going to tolerate this Bullshit of the Pac-12 Conference falling further and further behind with Larry Scott running the show and in our minds bogging the Pac-12 Conference down in the mud while the Big Ten and SEC race ahead?
What’s the old saying that if you sit down at a table to play cards and you can’t pick out the MARK then guess what….you are the MARK!
These are now the MARKS in Pac-12 Country….
Arizona State: Michael Crow Oregon State: Ed Ray UCLA: Gene Block Colorado: Bruce Benson USC: Max Nikias Arizona: Ann Weaver Hart Utah: David Pershing Cal: Nickolas Dirks Oregon: Michael Schill Washington: Ana Mari Cauce Washington State: Kirk Schulz Stanford: Marc Tessier-Lavigne
…and they are being played for CHUMPS by Larry Scott and it is now our opinion here at Coaches Hot Seat that…
Larry Scott Poses A Clear and Present Danger to the Future Success of the Pac-12 Conference
…precisely because the Pac-12 now has NO ONE that can command a room to leverage the immense assets of the Pac-12 Conference…PERIOD!
Oh…but then what the Hell do we here at Coaches Hot Seat know? Oh..we know what the executives at the Networks and Cable News Companies are saying behind closed doors from our work in the world of advertising about the Pac-12 and Larry Scott which in our opinion boils down to…
“The Pac-12 Conference leadership is WEAK!”
Fix that Damn problem “CEOs” of the Pac-12 and fix it Damn Soon or you folks will wake-up 5 years from now miles and miles and miles behind the Big Ten and SEC Conference with No Damn Chance to EVER catch-up!
Now let’s get to Boston College Head Coach Steve Addazio….
Steve Addazio, Boston College Head Football Coach
4 th season at Boston College
Overall Head Coaching Record (Temple + BC): 30 – 32
Boston College Overall Record: 17 – 21
ACC Conference Record: 8 – 16
Someone who we trust in the Boston area has told us Steve Addazio would like to break Coaches Hot Seat in half and we have No Damn Clue if that is true or not BUT if it is true we can only say to Steve Addazio…
When you were the head coach at Cheshire High School in Connecticut in the 1980s Son many at Coaches Hot Seat were serving in the US Navy at the height of the Cold War against the Soviets and were involved in Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf in 1991
….so please save us the tough talk and coach your Damn football team Addazio which brings us to the TOUGH TALK about what Steve Addazio is now facing at BC which is nothing less than a…
Make or Break Year at Boston College in 2016
….after nothing less than a Complete Freaking Disaster at BC in 2015 of…
3 – 8 Overall
AND
0 – 8 in ACC play!
We don’t have real HUGE standards for Boston College football and if you can keep BC above .500 overall and roughly .500 in ACC play as the head football coach at Boston College each season your ass will more than likely stay off the Hot Seat BUT…
3 – 8 Overall and 0 -8 in ACC play
…your ass will be firmly on the Hot Seat and that is where Steve Addazio finds his ass in May 2016!
Georgia Tech At UMass At Virginia Tech Wagner Buffalo Clemson Syracuse At NC State Louisville At Florida State UConn At Wake Forest
OK….Bozo the Clown or ANY Damn Clown you can think of could win…
4 Football Games
….coaching Boston College in 2016 and we see No Damn Reason at all why Steve Addazio and his Boston College football team not win at least…
6 Games in 2016
…with a schedule that a coach in his FOURTH year at BC should win at least…
7 Games
….without much trouble at all.
What will happen if Steve Addazio and his Boston College football team don’t win at least 6 games in 2016?
Steve Addazio will be fired come December at Boston College…PERIOD!
Many Coaches Hot Seat members are headed to Florida this week for The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida near Jacksonville and every time we travel to Florida to get together we remember a little over three years ago when we were in South Florida for the Total Destruction of Notre Dame football by Alabama in the Bogus BCS Title Game and we also remember at the same losing our friend Huell Howser who died in Palm Springs while we were in Florida.
Long ago someone wise once said…”As long as your name is whispered on the Earth you are immortal.”
