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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Mammoth_Impress_3108 on 2025-10-12 19:03:27+00:00.
Essentially, he went from a mildly warm seat to being (rightfully) fired within two games. The Oregon loss was kind of par for the course for him. I don’t think the majority of reasonable fans were ready to fire him after that, as long as he finished the rest of the season like he had the past few. Then, UCLA made the calls to fire him legitimate, and Northwestern was the final nail in the coffin.
Obviously, he’s had fans complain for years about his inability to win big games, but I don’t think he actually was ever in danger of losing his job or on the hot seat, until after UCLA. Has there been a coach fired with a similar progression? Some coaches spend years in limbo land (cough Napier cough), just being good enough to not get fired, but being bad enough to keep most of the fans unhappy. This sequence of events seems unprecedented.