Social media went nuts in Week 3 — CFB hot seats exploded, included Herm Edwards
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Saturday was a big day for the college football coaching hot seat industry and rumor mill. Coaches who entered 2022 on the hot seat sealed their fates, while other coaches who figured to get one more season regardless of outcome might have coached their way onto the hot seat this year.
The Pac-12 has great examples of both situations, following a Saturday when very hot seats got even hotter.
In Tempe, Arizona State suffered a humiliating loss to Eastern Michigan. The Eagles didn’t blow out the Sun Devils, but this wasn’t a squeaker, either. EMU delivered a two-score win over the Sun Devils, 30-21. Herman Edwards, who was improbably retained for this season — all while the NCAA has not yet punished his program for COVID-19 recruiting violations — would seem to be done and dusted in the desert. ASU’s season is already a mess, and with USC and Utah still remaining on the schedule, not to mention a rising Arizona Wildcat team which looks miles better, you can pretty much stick a Fork in the Devils. Herm and athletic director Ray Anderson should be fired by the end of 2022. If not, something is very dysfunctional in Tempe.
In Boulder, Karl Dorrell — who figured to get a 2023 season regardless of how 2022 unfolded — is putting himself squarely on the hot seat. As Buffaloes Wire notes, CU fans are already studying buyout numbers and wondering if something can be done now. CU lost to Minnesota 49-7. At one point in Saturday’s game, the Buffs had 91 yards and Minnesota had 49 points. Colorado truly might be the worst Power Five conference team in the country, with Georgia Tech offering competition.
There’s a lot more hot seat talk to deal with. Here’s how Twitter reacted to various hot seat situations:
HERM HARM
😂😂😂😂 you play to win the game pic.twitter.com/JMsAT5lNhe
— Billy Romero (@gatoloco34) September 18, 2022
OH NO
Only one man can save us pic.twitter.com/r5fYrOPUYn
— BenPokorny (@BenPokorny) September 18, 2022
BEDEVILED
Herm Edwards, Ray Anderson, Michael Crow pic.twitter.com/4D59aEDY4J
— Chris Karpman (@ChrisKarpman) September 18, 2022
THE GRIM DETAILS
ASU faltered in what was perhaps its worst non-conference home loss this century — a devastating outcome even worse than the team’s lowest of expectations in what was projected to be a down year, following which Herm Edwards had no real answers. https://t.co/sP40r6sS5E pic.twitter.com/L5WOLtNNIF
— SunDevilSource.com (@SunDevilSource) September 18, 2022
PICTURES AND 1,000 WORDS, ETC.
The Herm Edwards era summed up: pic.twitter.com/RyC5Wnq5uW
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) September 18, 2022
THIS IS FINE DOT GIF
Leave the players and social media employees alone. And don’t bother tweeting at the admin or coaches, not that it does anything anyway. Ray is 350 days removed from his last ASU football Tweet and has left the platform altogether and Herm never ran his own socials.
— Ralph Amsden (@ralphamsden) September 18, 2022
IT IS DIRE FOR DORRELL AT COLORADO
People are beginning to wonder about what Karl Dorrell’s buyout looks like https://t.co/BUz9hxwksH
— ColoradoBuffaloesWire (@BuffaloesWire) September 18, 2022
START OVER AT CU
BLOW IT UP COMPLETELY.
I know the thinking is that CU can’t afford the coaching buyout.
But honestly they can’t afford to NOT do it.
Keeping the status quo essentially tells everyone (including recruits) the school doesn’t give a shit about having a REAL football program.
— Kelli Brooks (@KelliBrooks627) September 17, 2022
YIKES
Look out G5! #GoBuffs are on a mission to be the worst in all FBS! https://t.co/YhOVYx75Ix
— buffnik (@buffnik) September 17, 2022
YO
It's no contest. They ARE the worst in FBS
— Derrick J Hawkins (@trucker_muscle) September 17, 2022
TUCKER TALK
Painful to say but if Mel Tucker was still our coach right now we’d probably be a bowl team
Not being able to pay him and then settling for Karl set the program back many years.
— Barstool Colorado (@CUBarstool) September 17, 2022
SORTING THROUGH THE DETAILS
Mel was great. But let’s not forget, MacIntyre brought us to a PAC-12 title game in 2016; AFTER the Embree disaster. Regarding Mel, the upperclassmen on his rosters were Mac’s recruits…something to think about as we are shut out, enjoying a scoreless first half in MN.
— Pete Griffin (@TheGriff_14) September 17, 2022
OTHER HOT SEATS: BRYAN HARSIN AT AUBURN
It’s 6:40 and Auburn is playing in the 3:30 CBS game of the week…I am currently pressure washing some outdoor rugs.
— Brian Harbach (@HarbachCFB) September 17, 2022
THE FOLLOW-UP
I know – I hate pressure washing
— Brian Harbach (@HarbachCFB) September 17, 2022
GULP
remember when Auburn went through basically every step to fire Harsin
and then just didn't
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) September 17, 2022
PAIN
— Jerad Walker (@jeradwalker) September 17, 2022
CHIP KELLY AT UCLA
Kalen DeBoer is basically early 2000s Jeff Tedford but recruiting at a better school for talent acquisition, i am 100% not mad about him being hired at UW this offseason rather than UCLA getting rid of Chip Kelly and hiring him and I'm not sure why you keep asking me if I'm mad
— David Woods (@daviddavidwoods) September 17, 2022
CHIP KELLY PART TWO
South Alabama is running the most basic ass college offense, like something Noel Mazzone sells online, and the UCLA defensive staff is responding to it as if it's the first day Chip Kelly showed the Blur at Oregon.
— David Woods (@daviddavidwoods) September 17, 2022
GEOFF COLLINS AT GEORGIA TECH
Just fire Geoff Collins already. https://t.co/Yv3J88Y0bh
— Jeff or Jeffrey Fann (@TalkinACCSports) September 18, 2022
ENOUGH!
Can only dream of the day the Collins era ends. https://t.co/l6gpqNXVKJ
— Jeff or Jeffrey Fann (@TalkinACCSports) September 18, 2022
DON'T FORGET LOUISVILLE, WHICH LOST ON FRIDAY TO A TEAM WITH A BACKUP QB
Anyone else notice App State was good before Satterfield and better once he left? I would assume App State also has better wins than UofL in Satt’s tenure at Louisville… #FireSatterfield
— Fire Satterfield (@FireSatterfield) September 17, 2022
