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From Herm Edwards to Chad Morris, ranking college football's 15 worst coaching hires of the past decade

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From Herm Edwards to Chad Morris, ranking college football's 15 worst coaching hires of the past decade

This writer seems to be going by the results and not what was available at the time of the hire.

And that being the case, there is literally no argument that Riley’s tenure was worse that Frost’s.

Riley made bowl games. Riley won nine games. Riley had a winning season. Frost had the worst individual season.

Moreover, the delta between the “promise” of what a Frost regime was supposed to be and, in fact, actually was, is probably greater than anybody on that list. Nobody expected a ton from Ryan Walters or even Jimmy Lake. But the college football world thought Frost was can’t-miss genius material.

This guy needs to give Frost his due and make him number one. He went out there every week and fucking earned it.
 
This writer seems to be going by the results and not what was available at the time of the hire.

And that being the case, there is literally no argument that Riley’s tenure was worse that Frost’s.

Riley made bowl games. Riley won nine games. Riley had a winning season. Frost had the worst individual season.

Moreover, the delta between the “promise” of what a Frost regime was supposed to be and, in fact, actually was, is probably greater than anybody on that list. Nobody expected a ton from Ryan Walters or even Jimmy Lake. But the college football world thought Frost was can’t-miss genius material.

This guy needs to give Frost his due and make him number one. He went out there every week and fucking earned it.

I'll bite on Riley being the 'Oddest' hire of the last ten years, but Frost and Walters are really the two worst IMO.
 
Expectations vs damage done? Frost #1 all day, everyday.
So many possible methodologies for this list. Frost was the most spectacular failure, Riley was the absolute botch job of a coaching search who was the most transparent miss and obvious bad hire from the outset.

Mel Tucker similar to Riley, especially with MSU paying through the roof for him, even with no real history of success.

Those 2 were the biggest WTF hires to me in recent memory.
 
This writer seems to be going by the results and not what was available at the time of the hire.

And that being the case, there is literally no argument that Riley’s tenure was worse that Frost’s.

Riley made bowl games. Riley won nine games. Riley had a winning season. Frost had the worst individual season.

Moreover, the delta between the “promise” of what a Frost regime was supposed to be and, in fact, actually was, is probably greater than anybody on that list. Nobody expected a ton from Ryan Walters or even Jimmy Lake. But the college football world thought Frost was can’t-miss genius material.

This guy needs to give Frost his due and make him number one. He went out there every week and fucking earned it.

Frost, by far, was a bigger failure than Riley was. Frost really sunk the program as well, his lack of OL recruiting and terrible job recruiting QBs really stick out, besides the fact that he never had a winning season.

When you start looking into the stats and things, Frost was just an epic failure, really really bad.
 
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