What does a fired college football coach look like? Here's a breakdown
Schools are less patient than ever for their college football coaches to find success. Here's what it looked like when coaches were fired over the last six years.
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CBSSports.com created a profile for the 40 Power Five conference coaches* who were either fired or who resigned under pressure from 2009-14 as part of our annual Coach Hot Seat Rankings, which were released early Monday.
Here's what that average coach looked like during that timespan.
Time on job when fired: 5.34 years
Average winning percentage: .534
Average games coached: 65.8
Now let's break it all down by year.
Average time on the job when fired/resigned
2009: 7.83 years (6 coaches)
2010: 5.40 years (10 coaches)
2011: 4.75 years (8 coaches)
2012: 4.10 years (10 coaches)
2013: 7.25 years (3 coaches)
2014: 4.33 years (4 coaches)
Longest tenured coach fired
2009: Mike Leach, Texas Tech (10 years, 127 games)
2010: Jim Tressel, Ohio State (10 years, 116 games); Ralph Friedgen, Maryland (10 years, 125 games)
2011: Mike Stoops, Arizona (8 years, 91 games)
2012: Jeff Tedford, Cal (11 years, 139 games)
2013: Mack Brown, Texas (16 years, 206 games)
2014: Bo Pelini, Nebraska (7 years, 94 games)
Shortest tenured coach fired
2009: Charlie Weis, Notre Dame (5 years, 62 games)
2010: Rich Rodriguez, Michigan (3 years, 37 games)
2011: Turner Gill, Kansas (2 years, 24 games)
2012: Jon Embree, Colorado (2 years, 25 games)
2013: Paul Pasqualoni, UConn (2.3 seasons, 28 games)
2014: Charlie Weis, Kansas (2.3 years, 28 games)

Most successful coach fired
2009: Most successful: Leach (.661 winning percentage); Weis (two BCS bowls [both losses] in five seasons)
2010: Tressel (94 wins in 10 seasons, national title)
2011: Bobby Petrino, Arkansas (34-17)
2012: Gene Chizik, Auburn (33-19, national title)
2013: Brown (158-48, national title)
2014: Pelini (67-27)
Least successful coach fired
2009: Bobby Johnson, Vanderbilt (29-66)
2010: Dan Hawkins, Colorado (19-39)
2011: Paul Wulff, Washington State (9-40)
2012: Embree (4-21)
2013: Pasqualoni (10-18)
2014: Weis (6-22)
* Charlie Weis was fired twice, therefore, there were 41 instances of coaches leaving. Furthermore, Joe Paterno’s statistics were not calculated because of a dramatic skewing of the figures.
Figuring in Paterno’s numbers:
• Average years on the job increases from 5.34 to 6.30
• Average winning percentage goes from .534 to .570
• Average games coached goes from 65.8 to 78.4















