Top 10 (CFB) coaching hot seats in 2014

As we get ever so closer to the start of preseason camps and officially kick off the 2014 college football season, it's time to take a look at the head coaches whose jobs could be in jeopardy as they enter potentially make-or-break campaigns.

If this fall doesn't provide a sense of hope for their athletic directors and fan bases, these program-builders could be in trouble.

Here are the ten coaches who remain securely in a pressure-cooker entering the fall.

>>They were very young on defense last year and have had great recruiting classes the last few years.

I think you’re right about the latter, but in reality, they’ll be YOUNGER this year than they were last. There was only 1 sophomore with any significant playing time last year, which means not a lot of returning upperclassmen but a whole lot of freshman and sophomores. I hope he recruited speed — something no Aggie coach since Slocum has bothered to do.

Tom Osborne saved his bacon. At least that is what came to my buddy from two EXTREMELY reliable sources. T.O stepped in at the last minute and told AD Sean Eichorst and Chancellor Harvey Perlman that the tape had come to his attention sometime during the season when it was recorded. The tape was recorded before his postgame show after the Ohio State game in 2011. He said that he had disciplined Bo privately at that time and that firing him for the same deal would be like double jeopardy. Knowing the two guys my friend got this info from, I took this to the bank. Not sure if you are from Nebraska or not but for the rest of you out there, T.O. has that much influence even as the ex AD. As we are fond of saying “in Nebraska, Tom Osborne is less than a god but more than a man.”

I still cant beleive he didnt get fired after the Iowa game. When Eichorst made his announcement that he had full confidence in Pelini, most of my friends and family were shocked. It was like he came back from the dead.

I still maintain that if there are losses to FSU, Miami and or MSU that he will be dead man walking. Especially if there is another humiliating blowout on a national or semi national broadcast. The Husker fanbase is pretty divided right now and if the turnovers, special teams issues, penalties and defensive weakness manifests itself again, we will be seeing a new guy in 2015.

I’m a Hawkeye but follow the Cornhuskers quite closely. Have a buddy who has a son on the team.
If the Iowa Head Football Coach would have said the same things from Bo’s recording, he would be a goner. Even Hayden FRY couldn’t have weathered that storm.

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