(10-03-2022 09:20 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(10-02-2022 06:15 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(10-02-2022 03:04 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Karl Dorrell fired at Colorado.

Nation’s only FBS 0-5 team.

Wisconsin fired their football coach Paul Chryst, after a 2-3 start to their season.

Quote:Chryst, 56, who was born in Madison, finishes 67-26 in seven-plus seasons at Wisconsin, his alma mater. He won 10 games or more in four of his first five seasons with the Badgers, winning a Cotton Bowl, an Orange Bowl and three Big Ten West Division titles. But the program fell off beginning in 2020, going 4-3, before a slow start to the 2021 season, in which the Badgers finished 9-4.

The decision to fire Chryst came one day after Wisconsin lost 34-10 to Illinois, coached by former Badgers coach Bret Bielema. Wisconsin also fell 52-21 to Ohio State on Sept. 24, one of its worst losses in recent memory, and lost 17-14 at home against Washington State on Sept. 10 as a heavy favorite.

[b]Athletic director Chris McIntosh said in a news conference Sunday night, "It's my role to have the position of our program always on my mind," McIntosh said. "We just reached a point where today I felt was the right time to make that decision. It's not one I take lightly; it's an incredibly tough day for us all. But I'm incredibly optimistic that today is the first day of the future of this program."[/b]

Seems like their AD, Chris McIntosh knows and is willing to do his job.

(paragraph) I like how these schools aren't messing around with years of mediocrity and failure, twisting in the wind and not waiting until the end or even middle of the season to get rid of something that is not working anymore or never was. Experience has shown 2-3 would probably be considered "great" on S. Main. I like how these schools don't try to prop some guy up and hanging on to one potentially winning season after four years of crap and excuses. No successful workplace in the real working world tolerates that kind of failure (well, government jobs do reward failure after failure and still lie publicly about what a great job they do, but that's not the real world.)

(paragraph) I don't follow Wisconsin closely, I was a bit surprised by their firing as my general impression is their program is successful, and they have been ranked most years for a while. The reality seems to be this is part of their school's image marketing and they don't want to let the business of running a football program drag their school's overall rep too far down in their region, where their grads and alums are directly affected. People like college sports. It means something to them at work and the water-cooler talk.

(paragraph) The image of a perennial loser does filter down and affect the overall image and impression of all those who graduated from a school. Wisconsin and most B1G teams seem to get this. If you can't stand the heat, don't pretend to be a cook working in a kitchen; customers will be dissatisfied, and rightfully so, and folks will stop coming to your establishment due to its reputation. Word travels.

/steps down.

Chryst was 67-26 at Wisconsin including 9-4 last year…wonder if something else is going on there?