Mack Brown turned the highest-profile head coach to be fired this season when North Carolina announced on Tuesday that the 2005 nationwide champion at Texas will not return for the 2025 season.
Extra coaches will probably comply with Brown within the coming weeks because the common season ends.
Listed here are 5 with the most popular seats coming into Week 14.
UAB head coach Trent Dilfer
The Blazers have taken a large step again underneath the previous Ravens quarterback.
UAB is 3-8 this 12 months and 7-16 since Dilfer was hired in November 2022 after going 50-26 from 2017-22 with no shedding seasons.
Having beforehand coached on the Tennessee high-school juggernaut Lipscomb Academy, Dilfer hasn’t been capable of translate his success there to the subsequent stage.
Earlier this season, Dilfer stirred controversy when, throughout a sparsely attended information convention, he allowed his grandson on stage with him, saying, “It isn’t like that is freaking Alabama.”
Yeah, no kidding. However Dilfer hasn’t failed as a result of UAB is worlds other than Alabama. He is failed as a result of the Blazers barely resemble a university group. It is time for Dilfer to move again to grade college.
Purdue head coach Ryan Walters
Walters has turned Purdue into the nation’s worst energy convention group in solely two seasons.
Purdue went 17-10 in its final two seasons underneath former head coach Jeff Brohm, who took over at Louisville in 2023 following former head coach Scott Satterfield’s transfer to Cincinnati, which solely had a gap as a result of Purdue Large Ten foe Wisconsin employed Luke Fickell as its head coach.
Walters has gone 5-18 in two seasons.
The Boilermakers (1-10, 0-8 Large Ten) have underperformed low expectations coming into 2024.
Per ESPN, Purdue’s over/underneath win whole earlier than the season was set at 4.5 video games, and it ranked final in odds to win the Large Ten (+30000).
Purdue ranks 129th (out of 134 FBS packages) in scoring offense (17.2 factors per recreation) and a hundred and thirtieth in scoring protection (37.5 factors per recreation allowed). Its solely win got here in August towards FCS Indiana State.
Per 247 Sports, the Boilermakers rank final within the Large Ten in 2025 high-school recruiting rankings with a conference-low 12 commits, an indication that Walters probably will not proper the ship anytime quickly.
Kent State head coach Kenni Burns
Since Burns took over as head coach, the Golden Flashes have been the worst group within the nation, going 1-22 for the reason that begin of the 2023 season.
Burns inherited a program that had gone 22-21 in 4 seasons underneath former head coach Sean Lewis (2019-22), which was nothing wanting a miracle for a program that had two successful seasons from 1988-2018 and 4 bowl appearances since 1962.
Burns has pushed Kent State into acquainted territory after it appeared to have moved previous its woeful historical past. Burns broke this system; he has no enterprise being the one to attempt to repair it.
West Virginia head coach Neal Brown
The Mountaineers is perhaps over Brown’s thought of a superb time. In May, he took a pay deduction and lowered his buyout to stay with this system
Earlier this season, Brown downplayed considerations from disgruntled followers following a house loss to Iowa State, suggesting the environment at Milan Puskar Stadium was ok to maintain followers glad.
“I get that they wish to win … However what I might say is, did they’ve a superb time,” stated Brown.
“I am assuming they most likely had fun tailgating,” he added.
The Mountaineers have hit their ceiling underneath Brown, who has misplaced not less than 4 video games annually in his six seasons in Morgantown.
Think about how rather more enjoyable followers would have if their group had been any good.
Louisiana Tech head coach Sonny Cumbie
The Bulldogs are 10-25 since Cumbie was employed as head coach in November 2021, together with 4-7 this season.
The previous TCU and Texas Tech offensive coordinator has overseen a Louisiana Tech offense that has regressed underneath his watch.
In 2022, Louisiana Tech ranked 61st in scoring offense (29 factors per recreation), adopted by a 78th-place end (25.9 factors per recreation) in 2023.
This season, Tech ranks 114th (21.2 factors per recreation), squandering an improved protection that ranks forty fourth in factors allowed per recreation (22.4).
