July 11, 2024 • 11 mins
We welcome you into Hour 3 of Thursday's program and we start it off HOT. Hot as in which college football coaches are on the hot seat according to Athlon Sports. Craig and Cam run down the list and some of these may suprise you while others certainly will not.
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(00:03):
He's a Texas legend, a Hallof Fame broadcaster, the voice of the
Texas Longhorns, and your host ofthe Craigway Show. Here he is now
Craig Way. So this third andfive hour gets under way, Craig Way
(00:31):
alongside can Park bringing the program uptill five o'clock. We'll be here tomorrow
and then we'll be in Dallas onMonday, Monday through Thursday next week with
SEC Football Media Days. And obviouslywe'll hear from Long Worn's head coach,
(00:52):
Steve Sarkisian. We'll hear from Texascoaches, our Texas players as well as
the head coach. We'll hear fromother head coaches as well. I mentioned
in the earlier portion of the programspeaking of coaches that uh the athlon preseason
(01:12):
publication because I mentioned both Athlin andDave Campbell's Texas Football magazine have a variety
of talking points. One that I'venever really been particularly fond of is the
one called coaches on the hot seat. So, yeah, the ones that
(01:34):
could lose their jobs or whatever,but I mean it is a way of
life, and coaches will tell youthat everyone sark was in the hot seat.
Yeah, the year before this lastYeah, yeah, yeah, I
remember that. There are one,two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight coaches listedon the hot seat, and of those
(01:57):
eight, two are in the SEClet's see, one one in the Big
Twelve, one in the Sunbelt,two in the American and one in Conference
(02:23):
USA and one in the MAC aswell out of the eighth. First of
all, they have a group thatthey list are quote unquote getting warm this
see he's getting warm. And thoselisted are Tony Elliott at Virginia, Mike
Houston and East Carolina, Charles Huffett, Marshall Clark Lee a Vanderbilt. He
(02:45):
just started, for heaven's sakes,he's got rid of Derek Mason a couple
of years ago. Jim mceawaine atCentral Michigan. Remember when his star was
really on the rise, Yeah,Florida. Yeah, and then it went
away from him, and then hewas because he went from Colorado state there,
didn't he I think? And nowat Central Michigan. And then Pat
(03:07):
Ardouzi at pit was a pit inan ACC championship game. Well, anyway,
those are the ones of the seatis getting warm now the hot seat.
This is done alphabetically, so thisis not like the guy who has
the hottest seat, but the onelist one of the one from the Big
(03:29):
twelve list is Dave Randa, Baylor. It says a Big Twelve title.
The number five finish in the finalap pole for twenty twenty one is the
highlight of Randa's tenure at Baylor.However, that season is the outlier.
Through four years. The Bears arejust eleven and twenty three otherwise and won
only two contests in Big Twelve playlast year. Arrandom made big changes this
(03:51):
offseason to get the program back ontrack. He plans to take over the
defensive play calling duties after this groupsurrendered every thirty three points per game.
He also hired jake's Avatol, theoffensive coordinator Jake I think had got out
of the cow after his time wasdone in Texas statement to spark a unit
to average only twenty three points pergame last fall. So he's on there.
The next alphabetically listed is Mike bloomgernat Rice. He said Rice really,
(04:15):
and he said Brice is a toughjob. A Bloomgren has yet to
record a winning season. Now,it's a little bit, it's a little
bit misleading, not entirely since hetook over in twenty eighteen. The Owls
went seven and twenty three from twentyeighteen to twenty twenty, but have made
some modest improvement, going fifteen totwenty three the last three years. Also,
(04:36):
the program is coming off its bestseason under Bloomgren. The Owls went
six and seven and they earned aBowl trip after APR scores allowed the program
to make a postseason appearance with alosing record in twenty three, just that
he had in twenty two. Butwith the recent changes in realignment to the
American Athletic Conference, Bloomgren is underpressure to show that the program can move
(04:57):
up the packing order. In twentyfour Sonny Coby Louisiana Tech has listed He's
only been there two years, butthey've gone back to back three and nine.
Also, the offense, which ishis side of the ball, is
not running higher than fifth in theconference in scoring. Remember, he took
(05:19):
over as Texas Tech's interim coach forthe final five games of twenty twenty one,
including the blowout whenever Mississippi State andthe Liberty Bowl, and that helped
him get the job off of that. Stan Drayton of Temple a former Texas
running backs coach, been there twoyears or three years two, three and
(05:42):
nine both campaigns one and seven,both campaigns and conference play, but just
one of Temple's losses last year wasdecided by one score. Two of the
programs six wins have come against FCSopponents Will Hall at Southern Miss. He
had a lot of success at WestAlabama and West Georgia, couple of D
(06:02):
two schools. They went three andnine his debut season in twenty twenty one,
went to seven and six and twentytwenty two, but went back to
three and nine last year. Isoverall records thirteen and twenty four. You
mentioned Billy Napier, Yeah, andhe's listed. It said. Napier inherited
a ross or need of repair anda program that required plenty of behind the
(06:26):
scenes work to get the Gators backto winning at a high level. However,
patients is in short supply the SEC, although progress has been made in
some areas. Florida is just elevenand fourteen under Napier. The Gators are
six and ten and SEC play.For the last two years. They've made
some questionable in game coaching decisions weredominated by rival Georgia and back to back
meetings and finished last season on afive game losing streak. After some early
(06:48):
optimism and recruiting, Florida's twenty foursigning class was hit with late d commitments
and slid the number fourteen nationally,only adding to the building pressure on Napier
going into the fall. The othertwo coaches on this list are Mike Knew
of ball State, a guy whocoached them to a MAC championship in twenty
(07:08):
twenty, but they then they wentback to back Bowl games in twenty twenty
and twenty twenty one, but they'renine in fifteen over all in six and
ten in MAC contest in the lasttwo years. And then the last team
on the list, Sam Pittman inArkansas much improved team his first year twenty
twenty, they finished ninety four.Second season that included the win over Texas
(07:29):
when they were up there. Sohowever, the Razorbacks have trended in the
wrong direction. They went seven andsix and twenty twenty two. They went
four and eight last year, closingthe season will blow out losses to Auburn
and Missouri by a combined score ofninety six to twenty four. After winning
seven SEC games in his first twoyears, Pittman has managed only four of
(07:49):
the last two seasons, so theypointed out that he is the higher Former
head coach Bobby Petrino as the offensivecoordinator. I'm hiring Patrino back, says
we'll make or break Pittman's tenure inFayetteville. That's gonna be interesting to see
how that all plays out, too, with Patrino being hired back over there.
(08:11):
So anyway, that's the coach hotseat thing. They list. They
have grades for the new head coachescoming in Kaylin to boor the Alabama hire.
They put A plus Willie Fritz Houstoncoming over from Too Lane A plus
Jonathan Smith at Michigan State coming overfrom Oregon State A plus John Sumraw at
(08:35):
Tulane and the head coach at Troycomes in to replace Willy Fritz at Tulane
A plus Kurt Signetti Indiana had beenthe coach at James Madison A plus Mike
Alco Texas A and M coming overfrom Duke A. Sewan Moore Michigan succeeding
(08:56):
Jim Harbaugh Michigan A. Pete Limbowat Buffalo A he'd been South Carolina special
teams coach. He'd been a coachat Ball State in the past in that
league. Jetfish at Washington coming overfrom Arizona to replace Kaylen de boor A
Sean Lewis San Diego State coming infrom Colorado's their offensive coordinator A. Bob
(09:20):
Chesney, who had been the headcoach at holy Cross did a great job
there, succeeding now Signetti at JamesMadison, a Bronco Mindon Hall who had
been at Virginia now at New MexicoB plus Brent Brennan and Arizona B plus
Jeff Chot a former Texas co defensivecoordinator at Nevada B plus Bill O'Brien Boston
(09:43):
College b' You give it a Band then that's a high ranking. You
think that's a little inflated a littlebit. Scotty Walden, the new UTEB
head coach who'd been in Austin pThey glora that to B Jeff Levy and
Mississippi stateium in the oaklahom offensive coordinatorb Manny Dias going to Duke after being
the Penn State defensive cordiator. Ofcourse, he was the head coach at
(10:05):
Miami prior to that, and hadbeen at Texas as the defensive coordinator B
minus Derek Mason, who had beenthe defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State after being
let go by Vanderbilt a couple ofyears ago. He's the new coach at
Middle Tennessee B minus. David Brownin Northwestern B minus. Spencer Danielson at
(10:26):
Boise the interim head coach B minusKen Newey Mattel Lolo at San Jose State
B minus. Del McGee at GeorgiaState had been the Georgia running backs coach
B minus Major Applewhite South Alabama Jacks, where he'd been there head coach,
I mean offensive coordinators. The headcoach B minus. Fran Brown of Syracuse
(10:52):
came over from Georgia their DB's coachB minus. Bryant Vincent for Louisiana Monroe.
He's one replace seen Terry Bowden thereB minus. He had been New
Mexico's offensive coordinator, and then thefollowing coaches got caes or C minuses.
Deshaun Foster at UCLA been the runningbacks coaches CE Jay Sauville at Wyoming replacing
(11:16):
Craig Bowl who's now the director Executivedirector of the American Football Coach Association.
That's a C. Gerard Parker atTroy Notre Dame offensive coordinator see minus,
Trent Bray at Oregon State the defensivecoordinator, succeeding Jonathan Smith C minus and
Tony Sanchez New Mexico State. Hehad been New Mexico State's wide receivers coach
(11:37):
C minus. He replaced Jerry Killwho had retired, So thirty one coaching
changes there, thirty one and thosewere the grades off of those guys as
well. But we'll talk more aboutquarterbacks coming up when we continue here on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zonein the iHeartRadio app.
He's a Texas legend, a Hallof Fame broadcaster, the voice of the
Texas Longhorns, and your host ofthe Craigway Show. Here he is now
Craig Way. So this third andfive hour gets under way, Craig Way
(00:31):
alongside can Park bringing the program uptill five o'clock. We'll be here tomorrow
and then we'll be in Dallas onMonday, Monday through Thursday next week with
SEC Football Media Days. And obviouslywe'll hear from Long Worn's head coach,
(00:52):
Steve Sarkisian. We'll hear from Texascoaches, our Texas players as well as
the head coach. We'll hear fromother head coaches as well. I mentioned
in the earlier portion of the programspeaking of coaches that uh the athlon preseason
(01:12):
publication because I mentioned both Athlin andDave Campbell's Texas Football magazine have a variety
of talking points. One that I'venever really been particularly fond of is the
one called coaches on the hot seat. So, yeah, the ones that
(01:34):
could lose their jobs or whatever,but I mean it is a way of
life, and coaches will tell youthat everyone sark was in the hot seat.
Yeah, the year before this lastYeah, yeah, yeah, I
remember that. There are one,two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight coaches listedon the hot seat, and of those
(01:57):
eight, two are in the SEClet's see, one one in the Big
Twelve, one in the Sunbelt,two in the American and one in Conference
(02:23):
USA and one in the MAC aswell out of the eighth. First of
all, they have a group thatthey list are quote unquote getting warm this
see he's getting warm. And thoselisted are Tony Elliott at Virginia, Mike
Houston and East Carolina, Charles Huffett, Marshall Clark Lee a Vanderbilt. He
(02:45):
just started, for heaven's sakes,he's got rid of Derek Mason a couple
of years ago. Jim mceawaine atCentral Michigan. Remember when his star was
really on the rise, Yeah,Florida. Yeah, and then it went
away from him, and then hewas because he went from Colorado state there,
didn't he I think? And nowat Central Michigan. And then Pat
(03:07):
Ardouzi at pit was a pit inan ACC championship game. Well, anyway,
those are the ones of the seatis getting warm now the hot seat.
This is done alphabetically, so thisis not like the guy who has
the hottest seat, but the onelist one of the one from the Big
(03:29):
twelve list is Dave Randa, Baylor. It says a Big Twelve title.
The number five finish in the finalap pole for twenty twenty one is the
highlight of Randa's tenure at Baylor.However, that season is the outlier.
Through four years. The Bears arejust eleven and twenty three otherwise and won
only two contests in Big Twelve playlast year. Arrandom made big changes this
(03:51):
offseason to get the program back ontrack. He plans to take over the
defensive play calling duties after this groupsurrendered every thirty three points per game.
He also hired jake's Avatol, theoffensive coordinator Jake I think had got out
of the cow after his time wasdone in Texas statement to spark a unit
to average only twenty three points pergame last fall. So he's on there.
The next alphabetically listed is Mike bloomgernat Rice. He said Rice really,
(04:15):
and he said Brice is a toughjob. A Bloomgren has yet to
record a winning season. Now,it's a little bit, it's a little
bit misleading, not entirely since hetook over in twenty eighteen. The Owls
went seven and twenty three from twentyeighteen to twenty twenty, but have made
some modest improvement, going fifteen totwenty three the last three years. Also,
(04:36):
the program is coming off its bestseason under Bloomgren. The Owls went
six and seven and they earned aBowl trip after APR scores allowed the program
to make a postseason appearance with alosing record in twenty three, just that
he had in twenty two. Butwith the recent changes in realignment to the
American Athletic Conference, Bloomgren is underpressure to show that the program can move
(04:57):
up the packing order. In twentyfour Sonny Coby Louisiana Tech has listed He's
only been there two years, butthey've gone back to back three and nine.
Also, the offense, which ishis side of the ball, is
not running higher than fifth in theconference in scoring. Remember, he took
(05:19):
over as Texas Tech's interim coach forthe final five games of twenty twenty one,
including the blowout whenever Mississippi State andthe Liberty Bowl, and that helped
him get the job off of that. Stan Drayton of Temple a former Texas
running backs coach, been there twoyears or three years two, three and
(05:42):
nine both campaigns one and seven,both campaigns and conference play, but just
one of Temple's losses last year wasdecided by one score. Two of the
programs six wins have come against FCSopponents Will Hall at Southern Miss. He
had a lot of success at WestAlabama and West Georgia, couple of D
(06:02):
two schools. They went three andnine his debut season in twenty twenty one,
went to seven and six and twentytwenty two, but went back to
three and nine last year. Isoverall records thirteen and twenty four. You
mentioned Billy Napier, Yeah, andhe's listed. It said. Napier inherited
a ross or need of repair anda program that required plenty of behind the
(06:26):
scenes work to get the Gators backto winning at a high level. However,
patients is in short supply the SEC, although progress has been made in
some areas. Florida is just elevenand fourteen under Napier. The Gators are
six and ten and SEC play.For the last two years. They've made
some questionable in game coaching decisions weredominated by rival Georgia and back to back
meetings and finished last season on afive game losing streak. After some early
(06:48):
optimism and recruiting, Florida's twenty foursigning class was hit with late d commitments
and slid the number fourteen nationally,only adding to the building pressure on Napier
going into the fall. The othertwo coaches on this list are Mike Knew
of ball State, a guy whocoached them to a MAC championship in twenty
(07:08):
twenty, but they then they wentback to back Bowl games in twenty twenty
and twenty twenty one, but they'renine in fifteen over all in six and
ten in MAC contest in the lasttwo years. And then the last team
on the list, Sam Pittman inArkansas much improved team his first year twenty
twenty, they finished ninety four.Second season that included the win over Texas
(07:29):
when they were up there. Sohowever, the Razorbacks have trended in the
wrong direction. They went seven andsix and twenty twenty two. They went
four and eight last year, closingthe season will blow out losses to Auburn
and Missouri by a combined score ofninety six to twenty four. After winning
seven SEC games in his first twoyears, Pittman has managed only four of
(07:49):
the last two seasons, so theypointed out that he is the higher Former
head coach Bobby Petrino as the offensivecoordinator. I'm hiring Patrino back, says
we'll make or break Pittman's tenure inFayetteville. That's gonna be interesting to see
how that all plays out, too, with Patrino being hired back over there.
(08:11):
So anyway, that's the coach hotseat thing. They list. They
have grades for the new head coachescoming in Kaylin to boor the Alabama hire.
They put A plus Willie Fritz Houstoncoming over from Too Lane A plus
Jonathan Smith at Michigan State coming overfrom Oregon State A plus John Sumraw at
(08:35):
Tulane and the head coach at Troycomes in to replace Willy Fritz at Tulane
A plus Kurt Signetti Indiana had beenthe coach at James Madison A plus Mike
Alco Texas A and M coming overfrom Duke A. Sewan Moore Michigan succeeding
(08:56):
Jim Harbaugh Michigan A. Pete Limbowat Buffalo A he'd been South Carolina special
teams coach. He'd been a coachat Ball State in the past in that
league. Jetfish at Washington coming overfrom Arizona to replace Kaylen de boor A
Sean Lewis San Diego State coming infrom Colorado's their offensive coordinator A. Bob
(09:20):
Chesney, who had been the headcoach at holy Cross did a great job
there, succeeding now Signetti at JamesMadison, a Bronco Mindon Hall who had
been at Virginia now at New MexicoB plus Brent Brennan and Arizona B plus
Jeff Chot a former Texas co defensivecoordinator at Nevada B plus Bill O'Brien Boston
(09:43):
College b' You give it a Band then that's a high ranking. You
think that's a little inflated a littlebit. Scotty Walden, the new UTEB
head coach who'd been in Austin pThey glora that to B Jeff Levy and
Mississippi stateium in the oaklahom offensive coordinatorb Manny Dias going to Duke after being
the Penn State defensive cordiator. Ofcourse, he was the head coach at
(10:05):
Miami prior to that, and hadbeen at Texas as the defensive coordinator B
minus Derek Mason, who had beenthe defensive coordinator at Oklahoma State after being
let go by Vanderbilt a couple ofyears ago. He's the new coach at
Middle Tennessee B minus. David Brownin Northwestern B minus. Spencer Danielson at
(10:26):
Boise the interim head coach B minusKen Newey Mattel Lolo at San Jose State
B minus. Del McGee at GeorgiaState had been the Georgia running backs coach
B minus Major Applewhite South Alabama Jacks, where he'd been there head coach,
I mean offensive coordinators. The headcoach B minus. Fran Brown of Syracuse
(10:52):
came over from Georgia their DB's coachB minus. Bryant Vincent for Louisiana Monroe.
He's one replace seen Terry Bowden thereB minus. He had been New
Mexico's offensive coordinator, and then thefollowing coaches got caes or C minuses.
Deshaun Foster at UCLA been the runningbacks coaches CE Jay Sauville at Wyoming replacing
(11:16):
Craig Bowl who's now the director Executivedirector of the American Football Coach Association.
That's a C. Gerard Parker atTroy Notre Dame offensive coordinator see minus,
Trent Bray at Oregon State the defensivecoordinator, succeeding Jonathan Smith C minus and
Tony Sanchez New Mexico State. Hehad been New Mexico State's wide receivers coach
(11:37):
C minus. He replaced Jerry Killwho had retired, So thirty one coaching
changes there, thirty one and thosewere the grades off of those guys as
well. But we'll talk more aboutquarterbacks coming up when we continue here on
Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zonein the iHeartRadio app.
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