Summer discussion - SEC Coaches & Hot Seat

[BiscuitEater]

So, which SEC coach is on the 'hottest' seat?

Right or wrong, the website Coaches Hot Seat ranks all 127 Div 1 HCs .. everyday. They have 'hotter' or 'cooler' indicators and here is their current ranking for the SEC HCs .. http://www.coacheshotseat.com/CoachesHotSeatRanking.htm

Red - Hot Seat
15	▲	Nick Saban	Alabama*
16	▼	Mark Stoops	Kentucky
22	▲	Derek Mason	Vanderbilt
24	▼	Kevin Sumlin	Texas A&M*
26	▲	Les Miles	LSU*
31	▼	Bret Bielema	Arkansas*
Yellow - Edge of Seat
43	▼	Steve Spurrier	South Carolina
Green - Safe For Now
63	▲	Gus Malzahn	Auburn*
71	▲	Dan Mullen	Mississippi State*
74	▲	Hugh Freeze	Mississippi*
78	▼	Mark Richt	Georgia
93	▼	Butch Jones	Tennessee
111	▼	Gary Pinkel	Missouri
116	▼	Jim McElwain	Florida

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[tenureplan]

Any list that doesn't have Mason first is garbage.

 

[patdog]

Any list that website puts out is garbage.

 

[FlotownDawg]

That list is always so stupid

Saban is king in Tuscaloosa. It would take multiple losing seasons for them to even think about putting him on the hot seat. To me, the two coaches who are closest to the hot seat are Mason and Miles. The natives are very restless on the bayou and Miles had better start winning more than 8 games. As for Mason, he looks to be in over his head. Another 2 or 3 win season should finish him off.

 

[patdog]

Saban is feeling a little heat over the way the last 2 seasons ended. Let him go 9-3 this year and Auburn win the SEC title and his seat will be pretty hot. But yeah, Mason and Miles are the hottest seats right now.

 

[57stratdawg]

Here would be my list:

1) Mason
2) Stoops
3) Miles
4) Spurrier
5) Sumlin
6) Jones
7) Bielima
8) Richt
9) Malzahn
10 Saban
11) Mullen
12) Freeze
13) Pinkle

N/A: McElwain

UF isn't going to be very good. I think September/early October is going to be an interesting month for McElwain. They play:

East Carolina
@ UK
Tenn
OM

I think they'll lose at least 2 of those games, maybe a third.

 

[BiscuitEater]

Disagree ..

Saban is king in Tuscaloosa. It would take multiple losing seasons for them to even think about putting him on the hot seat. To me, the two coaches who are closest to the hot seat are Mason and Miles. The natives are very restless on the bayou and Miles had better start winning more than 8 games. As for Mason, he looks to be in over his head. Another 2 or 3 win season should finish him off.

Bar is way higher @ Bama & LSU.


So .. if Saban, Miles, & Mason finish upcoming season with identical 7-5 records, WHO gets fired? While Saban & Miles are hiring bodyguards, Mason is SEC coach of the year.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Remember several years back when that site wanted to charge money to view their list?

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Why do you have Stoops at #2? Are they UK faithful already restless?

I think Mason and Miles are on hot and warm seats respectively. Some LSU fans have been waiting for a reason to run Miles. To me there's not another coach in the conference who is on enough of a warm seat to even merit saying so. Spurrier will leave on his own terms, period. Jones and Bert are new and improving. Sumlin MIGHT be a genius, so he's safe with the hope that Chavis can give him some balance. I guess if Richt went 8-4 or worse he'd feel some heat. Saban and Gus are 100% safe. Pinkle too. Mullen and Freeze - one of them will always be on a little warmer seat than the other based on the Egg Bowl.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Stoops is way too high.

Also I would put Richt a little higher on the list. If for some reason they don't do well this year and compete for the East his seat will be warm.

 

[Thrl595]

Also I would put Richt a little higher on the list. If for some reason they don't do well this year and compete for the East his seat will be warm.

Richt should have been let go a long time ago. With the talent Georgia has year in and year out, they should win the East every year. I'd put him in the top 3. Along with Miles, he gets the least out of the talent he has.

 

[johnson86-1]

You can always get fired I guess if you lose badly enough and in a convincing enough way to make boosters think you can't recover, but to me there are only a few coaches that could realistically be fired this year in the SEC for on the field reasons.

Miles, Mason, and then Richt are it I think, and that's assuming Vanderbilt has really decided that they are committed enough to football that they would fire a second year coach and that Richt loses his lock on important UGA boosters (it seems like he's in a position where his seat has never been warm even if a bunch of fans wished it were, so I think he has a lot of support in his adminsitration).

If Spurrier had a meltdown, people at USCe might decide he's too old to coach, but I'm thinking in the unlikely event they completely melt down, he'll step down before they fire him; he won't force their hand.

If Mark Stoops or Butch Jones really backslid their jobs might be in jeopardy, but I think they're both still in their grace period. I think UT would be more likely to pull the plug on Butch than UK would on Stoops just because they're expectations are so much higher.