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2020 Thanksgiving Weekend – Stay Safe Out There Folks – Give These Hot Seat Coaches Hell Johnny Cash! – Post What Week Whatever Coaches Hot Seat Rankings
As we head into the 2020 Thanksgiving Weekend the American People have Lost the Plot in slowing down a Corona Virus that is easy to stop if you follow just a few simple rules and with a President, Congress, and US Gov't that has almost Totally Checked-Out and to that we can only say…
Stay Safe Out There Folks Because There Is No Leader in America that cares whether your ass is Dead or Alive!
Please give these Hot Seat Coaches Hell Mr. Cash!
Post What Week Whatever Coaches Hot Seat Rankings
1. Derek Mason, Vanderbilt – Vandy is not an easy job to win games at but one would think that over 7 seasons a coach would win more than…
10 SEC Conference Games
…and with Derek Mason's records at Vandy now at…
…and games left against…
At Mizzou
…time is running short in 2020 to get 1 SEC win this season although Vandy has shown fight this season and give Mason credit for that!
We have no idea what the Expectations are at Vanderbilt, but we been to a half-dozen or so Vandy football games in Nashville and we talked to plenty of folks around Music City and our opinion is that generally the Administration at Vanderbilt University really…
Just doesn't care whether Vandy football wins or not!
That's Pitiful….Just Pitiful!
2. Jim Harbaugh, Michigan – How exactly does a Michigan team coached by Jim Harbaugh in Jimmy's 70 th game at the school in his 6 th season on the job in Ann Arbor need 3 overtimes to beat a Rutgers team with a first-year Head Coach that took over a Damn Disaster we haven't a Damn Clue and yet…
In Jim Harbaugh's 70 th game at Michigan..at MICHIGAN…he needed 3 overtimes to beat Rutgers….FREAKING RUTGERS!
Since Ohio State beat Michigan 62 – 39 to end the 2018 reason season Michigan's records under Jim Harbaugh now stand at…
….and it looks to us that Jim Harbaugh has just accepted that Michigan will forever play 2 nd fiddle behind the Buckeyes so what exactly is the point in chasing Excellence when you can make $8M+ a season being just merely Average As Hell?
Hell…if Michigan is willing to pay someone $8M+ a year for Average As Hell the all the Worthless As Hell Average Human Beings in America…
Apply for Jobs at the University of Michigan = Where Average As Hell is Richly Rewarded!
Well…when your record the last 2 seasons at Michigan is 11 – 7 Overall and 8 – 6 in the Big 10 make that….
Sub-Damn Average!
With games left against…
….we will be fascinated to what Blue does in this spot because if they lose to this Pitiful Penn State team and a Maryland team that shouldn't be able to stay on the field with Michigan then we will know that Jim Harbaugh has…
Totally and Completely Given Up in Ann Arbor
3. Kevin Sumlin, Arizona – We have a rule at our Ad Agency that we never hire someone from another Agency that has just left that Agency under questionable circumstances = They Totally Failed…and with a big buyout (which is easy to find out in the world of Ad Agencies) and we still don't have a clue why Arizona hire Kevin Sumlin right after he got fired at Texas A&M with a Massive Buyout because what in Hell exactly is Sumlin's motivation to turn Arizona into a big winner?
Personal Pride maybe? Sorry, if we were in an Athletic Director position we are not in a zillion years hiring Kevin Sumlin at Arizona or Any Other School in the wake of him getting fired at Texas A&M because the #1 thing we would be looking at for in a Head Coach is…
Hunger! A Deep Hunger to build and maintain a Winning Football Program that focuses like a laser beam on…
Graduating Players
Building Winners = Winning Human Beings
Winning Games
Playing for Championships
Now in his 3 rd season at Arizona Kevin Sumlin has records of…
…and the Wildcats have left…
If all the above games do get played we expect Arizona to finish at 0 – 5 in 2020 and if the folks in Tucson willing to accept that Pitiful Mediocrity then….
Shame On Them and Please….Who in the Hell Raised Your Sorry Asses because for Damn Sure it wasn't Real Americans!
Winners Do Not Tolerate Pitiful Mediocrity!
4. Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee – Talking about Pitiful Mediocrity take a gander at Jeremy Pruitt's records in his 3 rd year at Tennessee >
Reality is Phil Fulmer could have hired…
Any Damn Random Person Off the Streets of Knoxville
….and He or She could have posted records of…
….coaching the Vols the last 3 seasons and here's the benefit of hiring most Anyone off the streets of Knoxville, Tennessee instead of Jeremy Pruitt >
That person would not believe that their ass is God on Earth and be a Worthless Pompous Arrogant Ass Punk like Jeremy Pruitt!
In lots of ways Phil Fulmer and Jeremy Pruitt are perfect for each other because both are…
Pompous Arrogant Ass Punks that believe their asses spun-up the Earth and that everyone else on the planet is Pitiful Peons and should get down on their knees and kiss their Precious Asses and where your ass gets raised to come to believe such Un-American Nonsense is beyond our understanding…just way beyond it!
There's not a Chance in Hell we allow our kids to play for Jeremy Pruitt today or Phil Fulmer in the past because we want our kids to be Decent Human Beings….Not Pompous Arrogant Ass Punks that when they Win want all the credit…and when their Worthless Asses Lose…blame everyone but themselves!
Don't send your kids to Tennessee folks….if you love them that is…in our humble opinion!
With the Vanderbilt game now cancelled because of Corona Virus the now 2 – 5 Vols have left games against…
…and the way Vandy is playing these days that could be 3 losses to end the 2020 season and if that happens the folks in Knoxville with $$$ would be smart to fire…
Fulmer and Pruitt
..and hire a couple of people in the AD and Head Coach positions that actually know what the Hell they are doing and are not…
Worthless Pompous Arrogant Ass Punks!
5. Scott Frost, Nebraska – Amazingly Scott Frost said he did not see the Huskers Pitiful Performance against Illinois become because why exactly…
Nebraska beat a Pitiful Penn State Team that the Coaches Hot Seat Flag Football Team could Whip the Hell Out of and Make Them Like It?
Is Scott Frost even alive and breathing on this planet?
His Nebraska football team has NOT Hit Damn Anybody in the last 3 seasons and if there is a Softer Football Team in America than the Huskers in 2020 or any other year then we have not seen them playing and that includes the several dozen Powder Puff Women Teams we have seen play games over the years!
If the Nebraska at Iowa game is played on Friday we are going to tell you what is going to happen >
The Once Mighty Nebraska Cornhuskers are Going To Get Their Asses Physically Whipped because Iowa hits harder than Every Damn Powder Puff Team in America and Every Damn Powder Puff Team in America is Tougher than Scott Frost's Nebraska Football Team!
The 1 – 3 Huskers have left in 2020…
….which looks like at least 2 and maybe 3 losses but let's say Nebraska finishes at 2 – 5 in 2020 that would leave Frost's Big Ten record in 3 seasons at…
That is acceptable to anyone in the Great State of Nebraska?
If it is Shut Down Nebraska Football because there is No Longer Any Damn Reason For It To Exist!
6. Justin Fuente, Virginia Tech – A Virginia Tech alum buddy of ours when asked about what he thinks about Hokies Football responded….
"What is there to think? It's been average as Hell for years and it ain't getting any better anytime soon because no one in Blacksburg cares that Va. Tech football is average as Hell."
Well said and in his 5 th season at Virginia Tech Head Coach Justin Fuente is sitting on records of…
…and after 3 straight losses to Liberty, Miami, and Pitt it looks like the 4 – 5 Hokies are on the verge of Totally Quitting with…
….left to play in 2020.
Will someone in Blacksburg, Virginia get tired of Va. Tech football being "average as Hell?"
Not likely because reality is just like in other places across America the folks in Blacksburg willing to accept Pitiful Mediocrity and that is Shameful….it's is So Damn Shameful!
7. Steve Campbell, South Alabama – With the home loss to South Alabama on Saturday Head Coach Steve Campbell's records at USA fell to…
Sun Belt: 5 – 17
…and the last South Alabama Head Coach Joey Jones was fired after posting the below records…
Sun Belt: 18 – 29
….so surely Campbell's records are not acceptable to the folks at USA…Right?
The 3 – 6 Jaguars have left in 2020….
At Arkansas State
…which are 2 very tough games so a 3 -8 is real possibility in Steve Campbell's 3 rd year at South Alabama which wouldn't be acceptable to the folks at USA….Right?
It wouldn't be acceptable to us!
8. Dino Babers, Syracuse – A College Football Team is a very fragile thing in this Age of Social Media and Woke Folks Everywhere You Look and a Head Coach can easily loose his current team and an entire program by just a couple of what seem like innocent mistakes, and in our opinion Dino Babers got on the wrong side of a couple of things after the Orange's 10 – 3 season in 2018 which has snowballed itself into a 1 – 8 record in 2020 with games still left against…
We have seen and read about Head Coaches losing their teams and in every single instance when the Head Coach was able to turn things around he did something very drastic to change the conversation, such as Paul "Bear" Bryant switching to the wishbone offense after records of…
….in the 1969 + 1970 seasons which led to a 1970s decade dominated by Alabama with 8 SEC Conference Titles and 3 National Championships.
If we were advising Dino Babers, and assuming Dino is able to hold onto his job at Syracuse to coach again in 2021, we would tell him he's got to do something to change direction and inner-conversations within the football team and if he doesn't what has happened the last two years will continue on into the 2021 season.
We have personally seen the above happen, a 180 degree change to turn things around successfully, with a football team, a company, and on an US Navy ship and each time the Current or New Leader/Coach focused on moving the Team or Company or Ship in a new direction that everyone could get behind which became such a focus that it leaves little time for questioning what has happened in the past or is happening in the now until things got better. Also, this is not something you can do by saying, "We are going in a new direction," but rather this something that is done on such a large scale, like Bryant's changing to a wishbone offense, that it becomes almost all-encompassing to everyone involved.
9. Les Miles, Kansas – The 0 – 7 Kansas Jayhawks host the 3 – 4 TCU Horned Frogs which is a game that we give KU little chance to win just like we give KU little chance to win their last 2 games against…
…and if KU does end the 2020 season at 0 – 10 then that would leave Les Miles records at….
…and if that is what the folks at Kansas were expecting when they hired Les Miles then….
Shame On Them for Expecting and Accepting Below Pitiful Mediocrity!
10. Mike Leach, Mississippi State – With the loss to Georgia on Saturday that drops Mike Leach's record at Mississippi State to….
….and the folks in Starkville fired a coach in Joe Moorhead who in 2 seasons posted records of…
…so of course they see a 2 – 5 record with games still left against…
Mizzou
….as Unacceptable….Right?
The Georgia Defense is now so porous against Attacking Offenses we were not surprised that the Bulldogs were able to score 24 points on the Dawgs, but can MSU continue scoring in their last 3 games is the question and will have a big say on whether Mike Leach will end up squarely on the Hot Seat going into the 2021 season or if he can begin to turn this ship before it takes on too much H2O that it becomes un-turnable!
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Florida State Fires Willie Taggart – Post Week 10 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – Give These Hot Seat Coaches Hell Johnny Cash!
Harry November 4, 2019
Florida State Fires Willie Taggart
When Willie Taggart was interviewed for the Oregon job in December 2016 it was our opinion that Taggart got that interview because of a law that the state of Oregon has on its books, House Bill 3118, "which requires state-funded schools to interview qualified minority candidates for top coaching and athletic administration positions," because it was our opinion that Taggart was a Terrible Fit for the Oregon job precisely because except for a few years at Stanford under Jim Harbaugh he had spent his entire playing and coaching career in the Southern United States.
To our amazement Willie Taggart got the Oregon job which made no Damn sense to anyone at Coaches Hot Seat in December 2016 and makes no Damn sense to anyone here today because it was such a "strange" fit which brings us to Florida State hiring Willie Taggart after he had only been at Oregon for one year.
There's a good case to be made that if Taggart had just stayed at South Florida for another season and had another 9+ win year he would have been an obvious choice for Florida State, and maybe things would have been different than they were the last two seasons at FSU which in our opinion from what we have been told by FSU-alum friends that live in the State of Florida has been…
Nothing Short of a Complete Disaster from Day One under Taggart
What was most alarming to us watching Florida State from afar and not seeing things that our friends in Florida were seeing and telling us from first-hand observations was the way that FSU was playing under Taggart which was often…
Unprepared
Un-Focused
Un-Coached
Un-Caring
Un-Damn-Everything
….which was really the case against Miami…..Miami for God's sake…which came into Doak Campbell Stadium to play an FSU team that you think would be fired-up to play Miami and yet….
The Florida State players looked like they could have cared the Hell less about playing Miami!
What is that about exactly?
Why in Willie Taggart's 21st game at Florida State do his players come out in their home stadium and look like….
They could have cared the Hell less about playing Miami?
It is THE MAIN JOB of a Head Football Coach to make sure his football team is ready to play on gameday and in game-after-game under Willie Taggart FSU has looked…
….and there really was no way for Florida State to allow that to continue because the school could hire almost any Random FSU Fan off the street and for God's Sake they are going to have the Florida State team fired up to play Miami!
Geez…if a Florida State team is NOT fired-up to play Miami that is team with a Head Coach that MUST be fired and thus the FSU President was right in saying that Florida State University had…
"No choice"
….but to fire Willie Taggart….and rightfully fired Willie was.
Let's bring out the Late Great Johnny Cash to show these Hot Seat Coaches what this whole thing is all about!
Post Week 10 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings
1. Clay Helton, USC – When you are the Head Football Coach at USC and in your 58th game coaching the Trojans and your ass gets beat by Oregon or anyone else by the score of…
…you have lost any and all benefit of the doubt and now there is no doubt Clay Helton will be fired at USC and now it's only a matter of the Where and When that Clay will be fired.
What's so interesting is that Clay Helton being the son of Kim Helton who played football at Florida, was the offensive coordinator at Miami under Howard Schnellenberer, and was the Head Coach at Houston for 7 seasons is that Clay doesn't seem to fully grasp all the things that goes into being a Head Coach with so much stuff slipping through the cracks that aren't getting addressed at USC which is precisely the reason Helton is now about to lose one of the most coveted jobs in college football.
Steve Sarksian and Lane Kiffin also made similar mistakes not completely understanding what goes into being the Head Football Coach at a place like USC and if there is one thing that USC must do with its next Head Coach is make sure they simply >
Know What The Hell They Are Doing!
We could write a book on the incredible number of things that coaches like Nick Saban at Alabama and Urban Meyer when he was at Ohio State would make sure are being covered and being taken care of which when you boil it down is just a long list of Must Do Items that is the basis for anyone running any organization on Earth successfully. At places like Alabama, Ohio State, and USC in order to be successful and live up to the expectations of the fan bases at those schools, if you are not taking care of all the Big Things + Tiny Details then eventually it will catch-up to you and what all this basically comes down to is this quote from the Late Great Paul "Bear" Bryant >
"If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home."
Clay Helton certainly has worked hard and done what he thinks is best for USC to win football games but in the end >
It's the many Big Things and Tiny Details that Clay Helton didn't take care of that will be his undoing and what Helluva Lesson Helton's time at USC is for coaches and Helton himself who can certainly learn from his mistakes and get another head coaching job in the future, and that is the main reason why Helton needs to keep working hard and try like Hell to get his USC team to win these last 3 games against…
At California
On a related note to what is written above we have a member of Coaches Hot Seat who played football at Alabama for Paul "Bear" Bryant in the 1970s and in the Spring Term after his senior and last season as a player at Alabama he went by Coach Bryant's office to get some advice on a career issue. In telling this story the former Alabama player relates an amazing scene but one thing he says he will always remember is when he was standing by Coach Bryant's desk just before he left he noticed Bryant had a 8/12 x 11 notepad that had a long list of things that Bryant was clearly working on with "checks" by the things that had been completed. Coach Bryant was working off a To Do List just like all of us do that are running things and in that To Do List is what made Alabama Football Get-Up-And-Go under Bear and makes it goes under Nick Saban and in the end it really is about…
"Taking Care of the Little Things…and a Little Something Extra!"
Good Luck to you Clay!
2. Chad Morris, Arkansas – We will forever wonder how someone could like Chad Morris have a career win/loss record as a Head Coach of…
…in 3 seasons at SMU get a Head Coaching job at an SEC school like Arkansas and not surprising to us or anyone else with a 2+ IQ Morris has struggled at Arkansas because…
Arkansas is a Helluva Lot Tougher Job than SMU!
In two seasons at Arkansas Chad Morris has now with the loss to Mississippi State posted records of…
….and to say that is BAD and that Arkansas looked no better in Morris 21st game at the school than they looked in his 1st game coaching Arkansas is an understatement for the ages…and that's a Helluva Problem for the folks making the hiring and firing decisions in Fayetteville….a Helluva Big Problem!
Now at 2 – 7 on the season Arkansas has left in 2019 games against…
….and if Arkansas plays like they did against Mississippi State the rest of the year the Hogs will not win another game!
If Arkansas does fire Chad Morris we would recommend ONE thing to the folks in Fayetteville >
Hire A Football Coach with a WINNING RECORD!
Is that simple enough? Good!
3. Mike Bloomgren, Rice – Mike Bloomgren has been the Head Coach at Rice for 2 seasons and he has posted records of…
Overall: 2 – 20 (.091%)
CUSA: 1 – 12 (.077%)
….and he replaced David Bailiff at Rice who posted records over 11 seasons of..
Overall: 57 – 80 (.416%)
CUSA: 40 – 48 (.455%)
….and the idea is that when you fire a Head Coach you should hire a New Head Coach that does better than the Fired Head Coach and that's something that folks at Rice University don't seem to understand which also seems to be the problem at lost of FBS schools these days!
4. Scott Frost, Nebraska – When Mike Riley was still the Head Coach at Nebraska a buddy of ours who played for Frank Solich at Nebraska told us over lunch in Omaha that >
"They have forgotten how to win at Nebraska and it's not going to be easy to turn that place around."
Watching Nebraska play in 2019 it's become our opinion that Scott Frost badly misunderstood what he was actually taking over at Nebraska and that Frost believed that through better coaching, conditioning program, and other things that Frost did at UCF and saw done at Oregon that the Huskers would by now have Nebraska back to winning football games.
After a loss to a really bad Purdue team on Saturday what has become clear to us is that the problems at Nebraska are primarily….
A Lack of Leadership and Motivational Issues
…and that Frost's particular brand of coaching which isn't really focused on Leadership and Motivation is just making things worse in Lincoln or at best just treading water. It's also now our opinion that either Scott Frost will change his approach from…
"We are going to show everyone in America how tough Nebraska really is."
….to Leading and Motivating the Nebraska Football Program or nothing is going to change for the better and a year from now Scott Frost will be well on his way to being fired at Nebraska.
Reality is Tom Osborne, Barry Switzer, Don James, Paul Bryant, Bud Wilkinson, Darrell Royal…name whatever great coach you can think of from the past…would have to change their coaching style to coach Today's Players or they would be Failing Totally like Scott Frost is now Failing at Nebraska and either Frost will realize that soon or he is headed for the same ending the Bill Callahan, Bo Pelini, and Mike Riley found at Nebraska which is getting fired and told to pack-up your things…because you are DONE!
Mainly the problem right now at Nebraska is…
It's Miserable As Hell to play football for the University of Nebraska Football Team precisely because the Head Coach is miserable as Hell and either Frost will get these kids Excited about playing football and having Fun playing football again….like the players were at UCF under Frost….or it's Danger Ahead Scott Frost!
Scott Frost's records at Nebraska are now….
…and the Huskers have left on their 2019 schedule games against…
Will Nebraska win another game in 2019?
Can this Huskers team even beat a really bad Maryland team on the road?
What will be the situation at Nebraska if the Huskers finish at….
….heading into the 2020 season?
It will nothing short of a Complete Freaking Disaster with Scott Frost probably panicking and overreacting in an even worse way to what he sees as some kind of "weakness" with the Nebraska football team and players when in reality it's…
A Fundamental Misunderstanding of The Problem with Nebraska Football!
5. Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State – An untold story about the 2019 college football season is how many SEC teams are Average or Sub-Average compared to years past and look no further than the game between Mississippi State and Arkansas this past Saturday which saw two teams that can barely bust a grape facing off making one of the teams look like a decent football team in the Bulldogs when in reality…
Both the Bulldogs and Razorback are playing Sub-Average Football in 2019!
In two seasons at Mississippi State Head Coach Joe Moorhead now has records on the board of…
…and the 4 – 5 Bulldogs still have to play in 2019 games against…
No way MSU beats Alabama and they will surely beat Abilene Christian so guess what Mississippi State Football has come down to in Joe Moorhead's second season in Starkville >
You gotta beat Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl to go to a bowl game!
Woo-Damn-Hoo!
Oh…in 9 seasons at Mississippi State and in his last 8 seasons Dan Mullen posted a .500+ record and took the Bulldogs to a bowl game…
Every. Damn. Season.
Our Expectations for Mississippi State Football are not unreasonably high…
7 or so wins a year will usually keep the Head Coach off the Hot Seat but that 2018 Bulldogs football team was LOADED and Moorhead only won 8 games and now in his second season MSU is sitting on a record of 4 – 5 and we cannot help but wonder >
Where in the Hell is this going because where it's going now is….NOT GOOD!
6. Barry Odom, Missouri – Trying to figure out what is going on Missouri is something for Sherlock Holmes because please now…
How do you go from losing to Wyoming to reeling off 5 straight wins over West Virginia, SE Missouri State, South Carolina, Troy, and Ole Miss…not exactly a killer's row of course….to losing to Vanderbilt and Kentucky…not killer teams either to land on a record of…
We don't know but we do know that Missouri has played only ONE team in 2019 with a record above .500…
…and they lost to the Cowboys and now they get to play….
2 teams with .500+ records = Georgia and Florida
2 teams with sub. 500 records = Tennessee and Arkansas
…and we recommend Barry Odom find a way to win at least 2 of his remaining 4 games if he wants to get his ass off the Hot Seat!
7. Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern – Saying that there are Pompous Arrogant Ass Head Coaches on the FBS level in college football is like saying the Sun comes up in the East, but truly someone who in our opinion believes that his Precious Ass not only invented the game of football but also that he is God on Earth and spun-up the Moon, Stars, and Sun and everything else that we Pitiful Peons can see in the sky at night is truly…
Northwestern Head Coach Pat Fitzgerald
…who is in our opinion one of the Top 10 Most Pompous Arrogant Ass Human Beings now alive on the planet….which has 7.53 Billion Folks on it just for facts sake!
Pat has done a nice job at Northwestern and even won the Big Ten Western Division in 2018 going 19 – 8 in the last two seasons coming into 2019 so mainly we have Pat Fitzgerald on the Hot Seat because…
Northwestern is now 1 – 7 on the season
Pat Fitzgerald is one of the Most Pompous Arrogant Asses on the Earth and we believe that when Pompous Arrogant Asses FAIL it makes the world a better place and someone that doesn't go around acting like a Total Ass all the time gets their wings!
Northwestern at 1 – 7 has games in 2019 left against…
…and since we could get together a Powder Puff team from Sonoma State University that could whip Purdue and UMass the Wildcats got a chance to win a couple of games in the next two weeks but can Northwestern beat Minnesota and/or Illinois?
Nope….not in our humble opinion!
On a related note a bunch of us at Coaches Hot Seat got to see Northwestern play at Stanford to open the season and our only comment on that game which saw the Wildcats score 7 points is that…
We have seen Pee Wee Football Teams with more sophisticated, organized, and efficient offenses than the Northwestern offense that we saw play on The Farm on August 31!
Here's to Northwestern losing their last 4 games and Pat Fitzgerald being elevated to the #1 Hot Seat so he can be there all offseason!
8. Dana Holgorsen, Houston – We are not quite sure what big Houston booster Tilman Fertita thought he was getting with Dana Holgorsen as the head coach of the Houston football program but we are betting it wasn't a record of…
…9 games into Dana's first season on the job with games still left against…
With those games left there's a very good chance that Houston will not go to a bowl game in 2019 and that would be a significant downgrade for the Cougars football program which has only missed a bowl game in…
2 of the last 15 seasons
…and if we remember right everyone was told that…
Dana Holgorsen was significant upgrade on the last Houston Head Coach Major Applewhite who in 2 seasons on the job…
Took Houston to 2 Bowl Games
…posting 7 – 5 and 8 – 5 records!
Dana Holgorsen is a decent football coach but he's also a Pompous Arrogant Ass Jerk and if he fails at Houston it will not matter to us at all but we are betting it will matter to Tilman Fertita who next time around should hire someone….
Can Coach the Game of Football and Isn't a Pompous Arrogant Ass Jerk!
9. Mark Dantonio, Michigan State – The Spartans had a bye in Week 10 as they sit on a record of 4 – 4 with games left against…
…and a win in this Illinois game would be BIG since Rutgers and Maryland are Total Dumpster Fires and probable wins for Michigan State and if there is something that Mark Dantonio needs it is it more than….
6 Wins in 2019
….because just 6 Wins when 5 of those wins would be over FBS teams with sub .500 records is not something that would inspire confidence among fans of Michigan State football nor anyone else with a Lick of Common Sense!
10. Kevin Sumlin, Arizona – We are not quite sure how Kevin Sumlin got Arizona to a point where in his 21st game at the school that they would lose at home to a 4 – 4 Oregon State team by the score of…
….which was Arizona's 4th straight loss to drop the team to 4 – 5 on the season with games left against…
Got it looks like Arizona is going to finish at 4 – 8 in 2019 after going 5 – 7 in Sumlin's first year on the job in Tucson?
Yep….and that's a Helluva Problem for the folks at Arizona because if a program is getting worse in Year 2 guess what happens 90% of the time to football programs in Year 3 for a Head Coach in the 12 years that Coaches Hot Seat has been around starting with the 2007 college football season >
They are no better or get worse in Year 3!
If Arizona does lose its last 3 games that will leave Sumlin's records in 3 seasons on the job at….
…and more importantly in the metric we rely on most to decide if a coach is on the Hot Seat or not Kevin Sumlin's record against FBS teams with .500+ records is…
A. Freaking. Disaster.
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Post Week 9 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – Let's Bring Out The Great Johnny Cash To Show These Hot Seat Coaches What The Hot Seat Is All About!
Harry October 28, 2019
Wow…Week 9 of the 2019 College Football Season is now in the books and it is True >
Time does go faster as you get older and Damn…Time is flying by now so enjoy each and every day because…
Every Day Is A Precious Gift!
Let's bring out the Great Johnny Cash to show these Hot Seat Coaches what the Hot Seat is all about!
1. Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State – They say that life comes at you fast and boy things are sure coming fast for Mississippi State head coach Joe Moorhead who in his second season in Starkville is now sitting on records of…
…after the loss to Texas A&M on Saturday and 3 – 5 on the 2019 season which adds up to >
The Hottest Seat in College Football!
With these games left on the schedule…
At Arkansas = #1 Hot Seat Coach vs. #2 Hot Seat Coach Matchup!
…could Moorhead possibly survive not taking the Bulldogs to a bowl game in Year 2 after taking over what everyone agrees was a Top 30ish football program just a year ago?
Not in our opinion but then in our opinion Moorhead was an Incredibly Risky Hire in a spot where the folks at Mississippi State DID NOT have to make an Incredibly Risky Hire!
If this 2017 Clarion-Ledger story is to be believed the candidates for the Mississippi State job in 2017 after Dan Mullen left for Florida were >
Bill Clark, UAB
Jeremy Pruitt, Alabama DC
Brent Venables, Clemson DC
Joe Moorhead, Penn State OC
Neal Brown, Troy
Mike Bobo, Colorado State
Jason Candle, Toledo
Ryan Day, Ohio State OC
Chad Morris, SMU
Now if we had been the Mississippi State AD in 2017 we would have had on our list of potential head coaches from above list these coaches…
….along with 3 to 5 other FBS and FCS Head Coaches and not interviewed any of the others because….
We Would Not Have Made An > Incredibly Risky Hire for the Mississippi State job because…
There was No Damn Need To!
Why was Joe Moorhead even on the interview list at Mississippi State considering where the job is located at?
We don't have a Damn Clue!
One thing we do know…Joe Moorhead better not lose to Arkansas this coming Saturday which…wait for it…has not won even ONE SEC Conference game under Chad Morris!
Speaking of Chad Morris!
2. Chad Morris, Arkansas – In Chad Morris' 20th game as the Head Coach at Arkansas his football team got beat 48 – 7 by Alabama in a game that could have been 70 – Zilch if Saban had wanted it to be and that now leaves Morris' records in Fayetteville at >
Much like Joe Moorhead at Mississippi State we really don't have a Damn Clue why Chad Morris was even interviewed at Arkansas which is an SEC Conference Head Coaching Job in the SEC Western Division and thus needs one Helluva Great Football Coach to lead it if it's going to be competitive and what were Morris' records in 3 seasons at SMU?
Please now…how in the Hell do you get an interview to be Head Football Coach at the University of Arkansas when you have an overall record of 14 – 22 at your current school?
Because you coached Deshaun Watson at Clemson?
A Drunken Stumblebum who showed up to practice once a week could have coached Deshaun Watson at Clemson because the kid as we can all see now with his play at the Texans…doesn't need stinking coaches to be GREAT since he has Mediocre As Hell Coaches in Houston!
Getting back to Chad Morris at Arkansas the 2 – 6 Hogs have games left against…
Will Arkansas win another game in 2019?
We don't think so and if that happens that creates a Helluva Problem since we have some real concerns that the folks in Fayetteville have a Damn Clue how to hire the next Head Football Coach if they let the current Head Football Coach go!
What a Damn Mess in Fayetteville!
By the way…we know exactly Damn what we would do in this spot to get the Arkansas Football Program rolling again but does anyone in Fayetteville have such a plan?
Not A Chance In Hell!
3. Clay Helton, USC – Clay Helton moved up a couple of spots in the Coaches Hot Seat Rankings this week even after a win because in your 57th game as the head coach of the USC Trojans you should not struggle to beat a 3 – 4 Colorado team with a first year head coach and thus Clay Helton's dilemma >
Clay Helton is coaching at place that should be ROLLING like Alabama is now ROLLING in his 4th year on the job and yet…
USC struggles to beat even Average Football Teams and thus it's our opinion that even the now 5 – 3 Trojans running the table against….
…it would take USC winning the Pac-12 Conference Title for Helton to hang onto his job and that leaves little margin for error…Damn Little margin for error!
4. Mike Bloomgren, Rice – We got to see a good bit of Mike Bloomgren at Stanford and we really didn't have an opinion on whether he would be a good head coach or not since we never really gave it a thought that Mike might be a head coach or not but we were happy to see Mike get the Rice job and so far….not so good!
Mike's records at Rice now stand at…
…and 0 – 8 in 2019 with these games still left to play…
The UTEP Football Program is a Damn Disaster so maybe Rice can win the last game of the year but in our opinion they will be 0 – 11 heading into that game and that cannot make the folks that do the hiring and firing of football coaches at Rice happy since it means you are hoping to beat UTEP in a head coach's 2nd year on the job at Rice…just to get ONE Damn Win on the board!
Not Good…Not Good At All!
5. Will Muschamp, South Carolina – Save the win over Georgia the 2019 football season has been nothing short of a Complete Disaster for South Carolina and Will Muschamp with wins over…
Charleston Southern = FCS
Kentucky = Average As Hell
Georgia = Maybe not so good after Notre Dame got its ass whipped by Michigan
…and with those 3 wins the Gamecocks have left games against…
….and if Muschamp lost to Vandy this coming Saturday he should be fired right after the game so we don't see that happening but will they win another game after the Commodores?
What would happen at a place like South Carolina when you win only 4 or 5 games in your 4th year on the job?
Probably nothing and that's why South Carolina Football is South Carolina Football and why it will ALWAYS be South Carolina Football…unless they luck into hiring another legendary coach like Steve Spurrier which we don't see happening in our lifetimes!
Don't lose to Vandy Will or your head coaching career will be…OVER!
6. Steve Addazio, Boston College – With the Boston College loss to Clemson on Saturday Steve Addazio's records at BC now stand at…
….and maybe that's OK for the folks in Boston but to us at a place like Boston College the above records are…
Sub-Damn-Average!
Now there are reports out that Rutgers is interested in hiring Steve Addazio and let's think about that for a second….
Rutgers wants to hire a guy in Steve Addazio who is Sub-Damn-Average in our opinion at Boston College and they really believe he would be able to do anything at all in the Big Ten East Division at Rutgers?
Got Damn Idiocy BIGGER than the Damn Idiocy of hiring Chad Morris at Arkansas?
Yep…in our humble opinion!
Oh…the 4 – 4 Eagles have left on their schedule in 2019 games with….
Oh…that would be just GREAT for Rutgers to hire a guy with a losing season in the same year he was hired at the school he was coming from!
What a time to be alive!
7. Barry Odom, Missouri – We were willing to forgive an opening season loss at Wyoming which is a tough place to play but with back-to-back losses at Vanderbilt and at Kentucky the Mizzou season is on the verge of falling to pieces with the now 5 – 3 Tigers left with these games on the schedule >
Damn….Mizzou will more than likely be 5 – 4 when they host Florida on November 16 in a MUST WIN game that if lost would mean Mizzou would have to beat Tennessee or Arkansas just to get bowl eligible not that Mizzou is even bowl eligible being on probation!
What a Damn Mess at Mizzou!
8. Scott Frost, Nebraska – The most disconcerting thing about watching Nebraska play football in 2019 is that they look worse in 2019 than they did in 2018 in Scott Frost's first year on the job and now with back-to-back losses to Minnesota and Indiana and only wins on the board against…
….who have posted a combined record of…wait for it…..
…it has got to be that Huskers fans are asking the same question we here at Coaches Hot Seat are >
Just what in the Hell is going on in Lincoln?
Or more to the point >
Just what in the Hell is Scott Frost and the Nebraska coaches doing because they just gave up…
38 points to Indiana
…after giving up…
34 points to Minnesota!
We are a long ways from Nebraska so we really don't have any idea what is going on in Lincoln beyond what we see in the games but something we have noticed which is different from Scott Frost's teams at UCF >
Scott's Nebraska teams in 2018 and 2019 do not seem to enjoy playing football like Scott's teams at UCF did!
Now what exactly that means or if Frost is coaching his Nebraska players differently than he did his UCF players we don't know, but if it's miserable to play sport that you are supposed to be playing it because you love it…as we all did in college…then you have Helluva problem on your hands and the 4 – 4 Huskers with these games left to play…
…have a Helluva problem on their hands!
A movie that is often used in the US Military to show potential leaders what it should look like to take command of a unit, division, platoon, or command is Twelve O'Clock High which stars Gregory Peck and him taking over a "hard luck" US Army Air Force bombing squadron stationed in England during World War II. Perhaps the most famous scene of that movie is Gregory Peck giving his first speech to his new command and this one scene says everything about how a leader should take command of a struggling unit, workplace, or sports team >
What is not well known by people that have not watched the entire Twelve O'Clock High movie…which we highly recommend for anyone leading anything at all…is that Peck's character after he got the squadron turned about by "Going Back To Fundamentals" got the place back to what we would call "regular order" which means the squadron transitioned back to enjoying their jobs as best they could in the middle of a shooting war and that may be the problem at Nebraska right now.
The Nebraska players don't seem to enjoy playing football…as Frost did playing for Tom Osborne at Nebraska…because the coaches have been so focused on Fundamentals they have never been able to get back to "regular order" and thus enjoying playing the game of football as Scott Frost did and we did in college.
There is no reason in the world for Nebraska to lose at Hapless Purdue on Saturday and lose or not they should go to West Lafayette and at least…
Play Hard and Play for the Love of Game
…because right now the current status of Nebraska Football of…
Playing Scared and Having No Damn Fun
…is adding up to a Helluva Lot of Losses and just for the record here are Scott Frost's records now at Nebraska >
Damn…that's Not Good…Not Good At All!
9. Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee – Winning a game in the SEC Conference used to mean something but with so many SEC Head Coaches on the Hot Seat these days fielding Average to Sub-Average Football Teams Tennessee beating a South Carolina team that is headed toward a losing season isn't really achieving anything as much as it is…
If you had lost the game the world would have ended
…and thus that was the situation with Jeremy Pruitt and Tennessee on Saturday against South Carolina…
If the Vols had lost that game the world would have ended!
Well…not literally ended but with that win the Vols are now only 3 – 5 on the season with games left against…
At Missouri
Geez….talk about a MUST WIN game…Bill Clark's 6 – 1 UAB team comes to Neyland Stadium on Saturday and with about HALF the talent…if that…of the Vols and if Jeremy Pruitt should somehow fool around and lose this game in our opinion…
He should be fired right after the game
…because to lose to UAB in your 21st game as the Head Coach of the Vols there really is no reason for you to remain as the Head Coach of the Vols!
With that win over South Carolina Jeremy Pruitt's records now stand at…
….and if those records don't make you realize that this UAB is BIG, BIG, BIG then you don't have a Damn Clue!
10. Mark Dantonio, Michigan State – We have a great contact within the University of Alabama Athletics Department who has passed on lots of great information about the Alabama Football Program and Nick Saban for a decade-plus now and 99% of that stuff we have never written about or even talked about in public but we are going to pass along a story that is directly related to why Michigan State's Mark Dantonio is on the Hot Seat now.
A few years ago Nick Saban was publicly complaining about the hurry-up offense which was noticeably impacting his ability to slow down opposing teams which was also increasing the overall scores of games in FBS football, but behind the scenes Saban was trying to both figure out a way to slow down hurry-up + spread teams while also making the CRITICAL decision to start running a hurry-up offense himself at Alabama to try and get some more points on the scoreboard.
The hiring of Lane Kiffin and the general embrace of a hurry-up offense and trying to score a lot more points wasn't an easy move for Saban to make since he like us grew up in the 1970s like us and learned that if you played solid on the defensive and offensive sides of the ball and had solid special teams you could win a lot of games and that's what Saban did….he won lots of Games + Championships…but at the key moment when the game of college football was dramatically changing it was either embrace the future or run from it for Nick….and Saban decided to Hell with it…
We are going to score more points Dammit!
This is such a CRITICAL lesson not only for coaches of sports teams but leaders of all walks of life to understand and that lesson is best summed up by the Late Great Andy Grove who was a Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation and one of the smartest people we have ever run into in our lives who said the following in his great book – Only The Paranoid Survive >
"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment – and you start to decline."
Nick Saban decided at a CRITICAL moment for his Alabama Football Program that either he could keep complaining about the hurry-up offense or he could decide to beat them at their own game and start to score some more points himself and thus move the ball forward, and Saban took the latter path and he has kept Alabama as a Top 3 program in the country which hasn't really missed a beat even though college football has been undergoing a revolution of sorts on the offensive of the ball.
All of the above brings us back to Mark Dantonio at Michigan State who in 2015 had the Spartans in the College Football Playoff….against Alabama…and even though Michigan State lost that game by a score of….
….many thought that Dantonio would keep things rolling with the Spartans BUT…Mark Dantonio missed the CRITICAL inflection point when college football was undergoing a revolution of sorts on the offensive side of the ball and since getting destroyed by Alabama in the CFB Playoff in 2015 Dantonio has posted records of…
….and the reason that the Spartans are in such disarray today is that Mark Dantonio….much like Les Miles at LSU which got him fired…is Too Damn Stubborn to understand what is going on around him and CHANGE to keep Michigan State competitive both in the Big Ten and Nationally, and that alone should lead to Dantonio's firing…unless he is able to look at himself in the mirror and admit his mistakes and ACT immediately to fix those mistakes!
Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church) in Frankfurt, 25 June 1963
It's probably too late for Dantonio to do anything about 2019 since the Spartans are now 4 – 4 with games left against…
…but he can decide that if he wants to take Michigan State to a bowl game then they will need to score a Helluva Lot more than the…
…they have averaged scoring in their last 3 games and the Score Target should be in this Age of Scoring in College Football…
30+ Points A Game
..or even better to insure a win 95% of the time…
Now if Michigan State stumbles down the stretch and loses 3 of their last 4 games then there will be no point in bringing back Mark Dantonio to coach the Spartans in 2020 because that would be…
3 of the last 4 seasons with Losing Records in Big Ten Conference Play
…and that's just Not Acceptable at a place like Michigan State…in our humble opinion!
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2019 Post Week 8 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – Give These Hot Seat Coaches Hell Johnny!
Week 8 of the College Football Season is now in the books and let's bring out the Great Johnny Cash to speak some TRUTH to these Hot Seat Coaches!
2019 Post Week 8 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings
1. Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State – Before Joe Moorhead took the Penn State offensive coordinator job in 2016 he was the head coach at Fordham where Joe posted a record of >
That's a pretty good record and in 2 years at Penn State as the OC the Nittany Lions posted a record of….
…which no doubt got him on the radar of the folks in Starkville, but we cannot help but wonder >
Did anyone at Mississippi State think something like….
This guy has spent his entire career in the Northeast and would he be good fit in Starkville?
Obviously not and from Day 1 Joe Moorhead has in our opinion looked like a fish out of H20 and a Yankee in the Deep South and Starkville, Mississippi is the Deep Deep South!
Now the folks that support Mississippi State football would be more than happy to support Ulysses S. Grant as their head football coach if he WON but with Moorhead now sitting on records of…
…things are getting very precarious for Fordham Joe and at 3 – 4 on the season and these games left…
…if Fordham Joe loses his next 2 games then….It's Over…PERIOD!
2. Chad Morris, Arkansas – A number that you just shake your head and look at with Chad Morris is his overall record at SMU and Arkansas…
Geez….how in the Hell do you get the Arkansas job when your posted a record at SMU of 14 – 22 we will never know but the losing has continued in Fayetteville and now at 2 – 5 on the season and with these games left to play…
…that looks like MAYBE 3 or 4 wins for Arkansas in 2019 and can Chad Morris possibly survive that especially if he goes 0 – 16 in the SEC in his first two seasons?
No One Could Survive That….even Saban!
3. Willie Taggart, Florida State – Like Chad Morris we are not really sure how Willie Taggart got the FSU job since his overall record when hired by FSU stood at….
…and one would think that Florida State would be hiring the Best Damn Coach they could get and does someone with a career overall record of…
….sound like someone that is the Best Damn Coach that FSU could get?
If you said "Yes" to that question you are a Damn Moron!
FSU is now 3 – 4 on the season after the loss to Wake Forest and have left to play in 2019….
Syracuse looks Hardly Coached At All so that should be a win and Manny Diaz's ass is now on the Hot Seat so who knows on that one and Addazio is on the Hot Seat so we have no clue on that one and Alabama State is a WIN but Florida….looks like a LOSS to us right now!
Can FSU even get to 6 wins in Taggart's second season at FSU?
We rather doubt it and with that in mind folks in Tallahassee might want to start putting together the $17M+ to buyout Willie and chalk this one up as a lesson and for the next head coach you hire here's a Pro Trip from the Real World >
Make Damn Sure he has at least a .500+ record you Damn Morons!
4. Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee – Since many at Coaches Hot Seat grew-up in 1970s and were coached hard by our high school and college football coaches and then later went into US Navy and experienced Boot Camp and/or OCS we know what it is to be…
Coached Hard and Tough
….and we also know the difference between Coaching Hard and Tough and demeaning your players in public and it's past time…way past time…for Jeremy Pruitt to…
Quit Demeaning His Tennessee Players in Public!
There's a reason why the following Paul "Bear" Bryant quote is up on the wall at our ad agency….
"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you."
..and that it is because a REAL LEADER Takes Responsibility When Things Go Wrong and Gives Credit When things Go Right and somewhere along the way growing up in Alabama and playing football at Alabama Jeremy Pruitt NEVER learned that Coach Bryant lesson and we wonder why…we really wonder why?
Whatever goes though Jeremy Pruitt's head on a day-to-day basis we haven't a clue you Are What You Are and Pruitt is now sitting on records of…
…..and the 2 – 5 Vols still have to play this season games against…
That looks like 4 or 5 wins to us in Jeremy Pruitt's second year on the job and would be ONE less or SAME than in 2018 and going 4 – 8 or 5 – 7 in Year 2 really has to get the fans of Tennessee Football fired-up heading into 2020 as does that the Vols are now 23rd in the 2020 24/7 Team Recruiting Rankings behind…
You think 2020 is going to be any better for the Vols than 2019?
Why would you think that exactly?
5. Lovie Smith, Illinois – Congrats to Lovie Smith and Illinois for beating Wisconsin on Saturday and with that win Lovie's record against FBS teams with .500 or better records in 4 seasons with the Illini moves to….wait for it…
…which really speaks to how much that Wisconsin was a…
Total No-Show Against Illinois
…and has anyone heard Paul Chryst raise his voice at all over how the Badgers played in that game which looked like about 50% effort to us?
No…Chryst is quieter than a mouse which is odd….So Damn Odd!
Lovie Smith's record at Illinois now stand at…
…and the 3 – 4 Illini still have games against this season…
Damn….Purdue has looked awful most of 2019 and Rutgers is a Total Joke and Michigan State is falling to pieces right now under Dantonio and Iowa…well Iowa should beat Illinois but who knows with Ferentz since Hawkeyes come out flat 3 or 4 games a year and then there is Northwestern which is basically Totally Un-Coached right now which means…
Illinois could win 2 or 3 more games!
Got Contract Extension for Lovie Smith if he gets to…wait for it…5 wins in his 4th year on the job?
6. Clay Helton, USC – It's going to be fascinating to see what Clay Helton and the USC Trojans now sitting on a record of 4 – 3 do in these remaining games…
…which looks like 2 or 3 more wins to us which Best Case Scenario =…
…in Clay Helton's fourth full year at USC and now you know why Helton is about to get run out of Los Angeles where you don't go 7 – 5 in your fourth year on the job at USC!
Interesting number is last 2 seasons Helton is sitting on overall record of….
….which is Bad….Very Damn Bad when you are at USC!
7. Chip Kelly, UCLA – UCLA had a bye in Week 8 after whipping hapless Stanford in a Thursday night game and now the 2 – 5 Bruins have left in 2019 to play…
What will UCLA's final record be?
Our guess….4 – 8 or maybe 5 – 7 and either of those records might keep Chip Kelly employed in Westwood because UCLA Football has sunk to such a depth now just getting a few wins on the board = Winning!
We would love to see Chip Kelly get things rolling at UCLA and that means only one thing….beating Arizona State on Saturday because you gotta Roll before you Get Rolling!
8. Manny Diaz, Miami – Our expectations for Miami in this Age of Mediocre Expectations for Miami is 8 wins a season and if you are trending below that 8-win line then your ass will be headed to the Hot Seat and that's where Manny Diaz finds himself with a 3 – 4 record now on the board with these games left to play…
At Florida International
Damn…..that looks like a 5 – 7 record at BEST to us and when you go 5 – 7 at Miami…
Welcome Your Ass to the Hot Seat Manny!
9. Will Muschamp, South Carolina – The Gamecocks played pretty well against Florida and got a few bogus calls go against them…one notable on a Florida touchdown…and with that loss USC is 3 – 4 on the season with these games left to play in 2019…
You gotta figure those last two games against Texas A&M and Clemson are losses so Muschamp gonna needs the next 3 games to be wins to get to a bowl game…wait for it…in his FOURTH year on the job!
Notable record of Muschamp's that ain't good…
14 – 15 now in SEC Conference Play!
Damn….don't lose to Tennessee on Saturday Boom!
10. Kalani Sitake, BYU – BYU got a great win against Boise State at home on Saturday night to move to 3 – 4 on the season and that's The Problem…that BYU is fighting just to get to a bowl game in Sitake's FOURTH year on the job where he now sits on an overall record of…
BYU still has games in 2019 against…
Idaho State and UMass are wins so that's 5 wins so a least 1 win against Utah State, Liberty, and San Diego State gonna be necessary for Sitake to keep his job but is 6 wins really now the standard for BYU Football?
NUTS we say to that but then we only been watching BYU Football for 40+ years!
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2019 Post Week 7 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – Mr. Cash…We Have Some Lazy As Hell Coaches Making Millions….Give These Hot Seat Coaches Hell!
It's hard to believe that we now have 7 weeks in the books of the 2019 College Football Season but here we are and let's bring out the Great Johnny Cash to give these Hot Seat Coaches Hell!
1. Lovie Smith, Illinois – There is a deeply troubling problem in college football today and that problem is Athletic Directors that listen to the agents of coaches telling that they should consider "X Coach" for "Y Job" and there is not an Athletic Director with a 2+ IQ that would possibly listen to a coach's agent on anything beyond telling him what the school was willing to offer a coach and yet here we are….
Lovie Smith is the head football coach of the University of Illinois football team and in 4 years on the job Lovie has posted records of >
Why exactly Lovie Smith was hired as the head coach at Illinois when he spent the vast majority of his coaching career in the NFL is hard for us to fathom unless you understand this >
There are a Helluva Lot of Stupid As Hell Athletic Directors that actually listen to the agents of coaches when making coach hiring decisions.
Memo to You Stupid As Hell Athletic Directors and You Know Who You Are: YOU decide who you are going to hire as the head coach of your football program and then call the agent to set-up an interview and don't listen to agents…agents are salesman and only want you to hire the coach and if your ass gets rolled by a coach's agent that leads you to hiring a coach that his not remotely qualified to coach your school's football team do you know what that makes you?
Stupid As Hell!
Getting back to Lovie Smith who was not remotely qualified to be a college head football coach the Illini are now 2 – 4 on the season after the loss to Michigan and those 2 wins are over >
What is the combined record of Akron and UConn you ask?
Oh…Lovie Smith wasn't when he was hired and is not today remotely qualified to be a college head football coach…PERIOD!
At 2 – 4 the Illini have left to play in 2019 >
Save Rutgers and Northwestern which the Little Sisters of the Poor, Blind, and Deaf football team could beat the Illini will not win another game in 2019 and that makes the best case scenario for Lovie Smith in his 4th year on the job at Illinois >
Oh….Lovie Smith is not today and NEVER will be remotely qualified to be a head coach in college football….as for the NFL…we would probably give Lovie a look if we at a place had decent defensive players but in college?
Forget about it!
2. Clay Helton, USC – We thought Georgia was a decent football team which Notre Dame gave a good game but after finding out that Georgia is coached by someone in Kirby Smart that is Lazy As Hell and is unwilling to get his football team ready to play football for a home SEC game in our humble opinion…more on Lazy As Hell Kirby Smart in a moment….maybe the Irish aren't that great and maybe USC isn't very good either…but then we already knew that!
Here are the Facts of Life at USC: As a new head football coach you have about 15 games to get things at USC rolling and Clay Helton starting off 12 – 3 in this first 15 games at USC in his first two full years on the job was pretty good but in Helton's last 19 games he has now posted a record of….
Sorry but an 8 – 11 record in any stretch of losing games over a 5+ game stretch at USC is Totally Damn Unacceptable and when you get the USC football program rolling you either keep the USC football program rolling or you will be fired as soon as it stops rolling and USC football…is almost at a Complete Stop now!
USC is now 3 – 3 on the season and have left to play in 2019 >
That looks like 2, 3, maybe 4 more wins for USC in 2019 and even 7 – 5 by the Trojans in Clay Helton's 4th full year on the job means that USC will be looking for a new head football coach come early December but then most everyone knows that by now….don't you?
We might consider hiring Clay Helton at another school on a lower level and maybe Clay can reinvent himself like Sonny Dykes is doing at SMU right now after getting fired at California and with that in mind Helton is conducting an interview of sorts over these last 6 games for ADs out there that will be looking to hire a coach in a couple of months!
3. Chad Morris, Arkansas – Arkansas played a decent game against a very average Kentucky football team that has been decimated by losses to the NFL and injuries but came up short again and now Morris' records at Arkansas stand at:
Geez…that's not good but take a look at this Stunning Number >
Going back to the 2012 season when John L. Smith coached the Razorbacks the Arkansas record in SEC Conference play is…wait for it…
That's right…Arkansas has won 13 SEC Conference games in the last 8 seasons for an average of…
1.33 SEC Conference Wins A Year!
Got that now Kansas AD Jeff Long was nothing short of a Total Disaster for Arkansas Football because Jeff also gets credit for hiring Bobby Petrino who we would not hire to Shovel Shit in South Georgia or even to clean the shovels for the people we might hire to Shovel Shit in South Georgia?
Yep…Jeff Long was just a Total Disaster for Arkansas Football and we don't expect any different at Kansas!
Getting back to Chad Morris and the 2019 Arkansas Razorbacks the 2 – 4 Hogs have left in 2019 >
Mississippi State is totally imploding so that could be a Win but Western Kentucky is playing pretty good football now under Clay Helton's brother Tyson so what….Arkansas will finish with a 3 or 4 win season maybe under Chad Morris?
Got nothing short of a Freaking Disaster in Fayetteville?
4. Chip Kelly, UCLA – As one UCLA alum buddy of ours described the feeling among the UCLA folks he knows about the Bruins football program >
"It feels like we have been circling a black hole for awhile now knowing that the black hole is going to suck us in and we just wish it would go ahead and crush us to atoms and get it over with because what's going on right now is nothing short of Hell!"
That Hell looks like this with Chip Kelly's current records at UCLA:
Pac-12: 4 – 8
The good news is that the 1 – 5 Bruins play Stanford this coming Thursday night and if they can score 30+ points they just might be able to get a second win in 2019 but with these games remaining….
…if the Bruins don't beat Stanford we don't see them winning another game this season.
Looks like the entry into that black hole could be coming soon and not a moment too soon!
We will be hosting some our UCLA buddies on The Farm this coming week on Thursday night for the Bruins – Cardinal game and it will be fascinating to see what direction things should go if things continue to fall apart in Westwood and the Stanford game will be the game that will Tell The Tale so Let's Play Some Football on Thursday night!
5. Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State – We were quite alarmed when we saw Kansas State totally manhandle Mississippi State earlier this year in Starkville but after losses to Auburn and now a Tennessee team that lost to Georgia State and BYU we don't think one could find a Softer Team in America than these Bulldogs who look to us like the Ultra Charmin that you pay a couple of extra bucks for in the grocery store!
Joe Moorhead or Fordham Joe as he is known around Coaches Hot Seat because of Joe's 4 years coaching the Rams where he posted a decent record of 38 – 13….but then the Patriot League isn't the SEC and that's the problem here…isn't it?
Fordham Joe's records at Mississippi State now stand at…
…and the 3 – 3 Bulldogs still have to play in 2019 games against >
Of course the SEC has a Big Fat Cupcake right before the rivalry game for Mississippi State so the Bulldogs will get 4 wins and they should be able to beat Arkansas which lost to San Jose State at home but where will they get at other win to get at least…
I am Average As Hell and Bowl Eligible at 6 – 6?
We don't know and if Fordham Joe doesn't win 6 games in his 2nd year after taking over a Top 25 Mississippi State program from Dan Mullen then in our opinion Fordham Joe AND anyone and everyone involved in bringing him to Starkville should be FIRED!
Just our humble opinion!
6. Kalani Sitake, BYU – BYU is such a secretive institution and our Mormon friends are not really into gossip or running down their coach to non-Mormons but we can tell you they are frustrated and a little down after BYU went to Tampa and lost to a really average South Florida team this past Saturday and now Cougs head coach Kalani Sitake's record at BYU stands at:
Not good…not good at all…and now the 2 – 4 Cougs have games left in 2019 of…
If you can't beat South Florida then you are not beating Boise State and more than likely not beating Utah State…nor Liberty probably…nor San Diego State and that means that the record in 2019 is going to look like 4 – 8, or 5 – 7, or 6 – 6 and this is Kalani Sitake's 4th year at BYU.
Not good…not good at all.
7. Willie Taggart, Florida State – It was reported over the weekend that if Willie Taggart is fired after this season that he will be owed $17 Million-Plus Dollars by FSU and we cannot help but wonder >
Who in the Hell was interested in hiring Willie Taggart after one season at Oregon where he posted a 7 – 6 record to justify Willie getting such a lucrative contract?
The answer to that question would be NO ONE which brings us to this >
Just how Damn Stupid are the people at Florida State University to agree to such a deal?
Very Damn Stupid People is the answer to that question and that is important because FSU just got beat 45 – 14 by Clemson to fall to 3 – 3 on the season and they have games left against…
Alabama State will be a win…we think…so can FSU find 2 more wins out of those remaining 5 games to at least get to…
If not it would be worth every penny of that $17M+ to fire Willie Taggart!
8. Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee – Tennessee finally got a win over an FBS team on Saturday but then that was over Mississippi State and there are at least a dozen junior college football teams that could travel to Starkville and whip the Hell out of the Mississippi State Charmin Non-Bulldogs so it's back to Big Boy Football with these games coming up for the 2 – 4 Vols >
There are a few hundred high school football teams in America that could whip Vandy so that should be a win but will Tennessee win another game in 2019 besides Vandy?
Maybe…maybe they can beat South Carolina, UAB, or Kentucky….but maybe not as well and there's the problem…
No one really knows what to make of Tennessee Football and that's because there's no one LEADING Tennessee Football right now….in our humble opinion!
9. Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M – The following comment from a Houston resident and long-time Texas A&M alum sums up the feeling of many Aggies with Jimbo Fisher 19 games into his tenure in College Station >
"We did not agree to give Jimbo $75 million dollars for him to be Kevin Sumlin-lite and right now it looks like this football program is going backwards not forwards from where it was under Sumlin."
Hmmmm…..so Jimbo Fisher has now coached Texas A&M for 19 games and his overall record stands at…
And Kevin Sumlin's record after 19 games coaching the Aggies was….
Please now…can someone tell us why in the Hell that Texas A&M is paying Jimbo Fisher $7.5 million dollars a year when they could hired any Stumblebum that fell of a train going thru College Station and he too also after getting a shower, a hot meal or two, and some hot coffee could have also be sitting on record after 19 games of…
12 – 7?
Oh…what about Jimbo's record in SEC play in Aggieland >
And Kevin Sumlin's record in SEC play after 11 games with the Aggies was…
Come now…let's cut the Horseshit on Jimbo Fisher and start holding accountable all the folks that thought they were geniuses in bring Jimbo to College Station which it seems that some Aggies are starting to realize with our buddy also saying about Jimbo if he doesn't get things rolling and rolling soon >
"If Jimbo cannot even hit Sumlin's win/loss marks then we will run him right out of College Station and Jimbo's legacy will be the total dumpster fire he left behind in Tallahassee and then getting his ass run out of Aggieland."
The 3 – 3 Aggies now have left on their schedule games against…
Can the Aggies even find 3 more wins this season?
Maybe…Maybe Not…but if A&M doesn't win 6 games in 2019 then Jimbo Fisher will be given a check and 30 minutes to get his shit together and get his ass out of College Station and thus we highly recommend Jimbo beat Ole Miss in Oxford on Saturday or it's gonna get Mighty Damn Uncomfortable in Aggieland!
Oh that $60M left on Jimbo's contract…evidently our Aggie buddies could raise that in less than 15 minutes and Jimbo would be on his way!
10. Kirby Smart, Georgia – We have contacts at about 50 FBS schools around America and we have a good friend that works at the University of Georgia going back to the earliest days of Mark Richt's tenure in Athens and this fellow has passed along a lot of great info on Georgia Football over the years….and 95% of it we have never written about…at least directly….but we talked to our Athens buddy last week and he says to us…
"It feels like Kirby and the football team are just going through the motions this week not that it will matter against South Carolina. Aren't we like 21 point favorites or something in this game?"
Yep….Georgia was a 21 point favorite at home against South Carolina and in our humble opinion…
Kirby Smart and his coaches took last week off thinking they could easily beat South Carolina and it is also our opinion that Smart had no interest in laying a beatdown on his good friend Will Muschamp and it was THAT that led to Georgia getting its ass handed to them on their homefield which means…
Kirby Smart totally failed himself, the University of Georgia, the fans of Georgia Football, and most importantly the Georgia Football team because he was a Lazy Ass last week…in our humble opinion…and didn't properly get his team ready to play South Carolina.
Now…we just did a comparison between Kevin Sumlin and Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M so let's look at a comparison between Mark Richt and Kirby Smart thru 48 games at Georgia >
Kirby Smart = 37 – 11
Mark Richt = 39 – 9
Hmmmm….so Mark Richt was fired to hire Kirby Smart and Smart has a worse record than Richt and more importantly…
His Lazy Ass just took a week off and he didn't get his team ready to play a 21-point underdog in a game at home….in our humble opinion?
What does Georgia have with Kirby Smart exactly?
To us it looks like they have a very good recruiter who makes a Helluva Lot of Gameday mistakes and Preparation mistakes and now the pressure is really about to be turned up with Georgia having perhaps the most talent in America and the 5 – 1 Bulldogs have left in 2019 >
Will Kirby Smart have Georgia ready to play Kentucky on Saturday or the games against Florida, Mizzou, Auburn, Texas A&M, at Georgia Tech?
No one knows…and that's the problem and if Georgia does drop 1 or 2 more games down the stretch with a Massive Talent Advantage in every one of those games then someone in Athens will have to ask the question >
Why in the Hell is Kirby Smart the head football coach at Georgia?
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HOT: Tibetan pieces... "Good quality, well-provenanced Tibetan pieces are hard to find but the demand is incredibly strong," said UK head of Asian Art Lazarus Halstead at Chiswick Auctions. This year a standing female Avalokiteshvara from the late 18th or 19th century sold for five times its estimate to make $17,000, and a gilded copper figure inset with turquoise cabochon stones (known within the family as 'the horrible Buddha') sold at auction for $24,600 against an estimate of $6000. Last year, we reported on a 16th century gilt-bronze bodhisvatta that sold for $54,500 and in February this year, another example - this one having been bought at a car boot sale for just $40 - sold at auction for $26,400. The market for Tibetan antiques is relatively young; in the early 1990s, for example, Buddha statues could be bought for the market price of old brass or iron. To be a considered a true Tibetan antique, the item must originate in the Tibetan region of China.
HOT: Indian swagger... "I receive huge interest in anything Indian I get at the moment," said UK auctioneer Sarah Flynn in October this year. "Anything to do with the maharajahs and that sort of princely thing is good." The princes to which she was referring featured in a pair of portraits by British portrait and landscape painter A. E. Harris, which sold at Flynn's auction for $22,000. Just eight years ago, the same portraits had failed to sell at Sotheby's London. But the interest in Indian swagger - commissioned portraits of a wealthy or prominent person, which ostentatiously emphasise their importance, power or status - wasn't as great in 2008.
The maharajahs ruled from the early 18th century, when the collapse of the Mughal empire allowed smaller kingdoms and the British-formed East India Company to move in on the political landscape, to the mid-20th century when the British finally left India. The maharajahs and the members of their courts displayed their wealth and importance by wearing enormous gemstones, as well as setting them in everything from pens and pipes to game pieces and scabbards. The rani - ladies of the court - wore large, jewel-encrusted anklets and armbands and elaborate gold hair ornaments. Wooden boxes featuring a marquetry called sadeli, which mimics the appearance of inlay, are very collectable at the moment, as are the more modern Indian advertising calendars and even Bollywood movie posters.
HOT: Zsolnay ceramics... "With the Hungarians currently keen to buy back their ceramics heritage, the Art Nouveau wares from the Zsolnay factory are on something of a roll," noted the UK trade newspaper Antiques Trade Gazette on October 8. A Zsolnay serpent ewer glazed in peacock blue-green was contested by a number of online bidders and four Budapest-based phone bidders when it came up for auction at Clevedon Salerooms in the UK. Despite having a large crack across its base, it sold for a double-estimate $16,000 to one of the Budapest bidders. In June this year, a gilt and red lustre peacock charger made 11 times its top estimate when it sold for $9550 - again to a Hungarian phone bidder.
The Zsolnay factory was established in 1853, but it was at the World Exhibition of 1873, held in Vienna, where it really made its mark, receiving orders from the UK, France, Russia and the USA. At the 1878 Exhibition in Paris the Zsolnay collection was awarded the Grand Prix Gold Medal, and in 1896 the factory introduced its metallic eosin glaze. Milos Zsolnay - son of founder Vilmos - wanted to emulate in pottery the beauty of art glass, and to this end he developed a system of lustre glazes in a wide ranging colour palette, shade, iridescence and surface finish. The eosin glaze produced a shinier, iridescent surface in a rainbow of colours that propelled Zsolnay into a market so successful it lodged more than 3000 designs between 1898 and 1914.
HOT NOT: Victorian genre paintings... Genre painting describes depictions of scenes of everyday life, and in the Victorian era nothing was more popular than a sentimental household scene - often combining a storytelling element with that favourite of Victorian inclusions, a moral message. The main themes of domesticity and childhood appealed to the taste and values of an emerging and increasing more affluent middle class, and painters such as William Powell Frith, Augustus Leopold Egg and William Mulready enjoyed patronage from the Queen along with long and successful careers. But by the time of Queen Victoria's death in 1901, many of the most prominent artists had already died. Victorian attitudes and art became extremely unfashionable, and although there are exceptions, the Victorian genre painting still suffers from the stigma attached to it by art historians such as Quentin Bell, who wrote in 1967 that Victorian art was 'aesthetically and therefore historically negligible.'
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» Nurse advocates fill vital roles in their communities—serving the public from the front of the courtroom, a seat at the board table, or the lobby of the state house.
At Mount Mercy University, the faculty value the importance of advocacy training. Legislative Day, an important advocacy training tool, shows students that working directly with legislators is sometimes the most effective way to advocate for their patients.
Once a year, Mount Mercy nursing students, faculty and alumni spend an afternoon at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines, meeting with law makers to discuss health care legislation and its impact on patients and nurses.
The state-wide Iowa Nurses Association Legislative Day attracts almost 300 attendees each year. Participants spend mornings learning the importance of harnessing nursing's political power and how to approach legislators with a simple, clear message.
"Health policies and laws are made every day, and they affect the whole health care system, including nurses," said Dr. Sharon Guthrie, assistant professor of nursing at Mount Mercy and the trip's yearly organizer.
Guthrie said student training in advocacy is essential and should be practiced much like other nursing skills.
Encouraged by faculty, Andrea Wilhite '14 was involved with the INA Legislative Day as a student and now sits on the organization's board of directors as director of newly licensed RNs.
Two years into her career, Wilhite looks back at her college experience with pride.
"I don't think I understood everything Mount Mercy gave me until I got out into the world," she said. "They gave me the knowledge base that formed me into who I am as a nurse, and I continue to keep my mind open to current social issues.
Public Health Specialist Mary Rose Corrigan-Psihoyos '85 works every day to address the physical, mental and environmental health concerns of Dubuque's population. With nearly 60,000 community members, managing the city's health department is no small task.
Corrigan-Psihoyos landed in Dubuque's health department when she was studying for boards. The city offered her a temporary, and later, full-time job related to environment health and inspections. Just four years later, she became the city's health department supervisor and remains in the position today.
Though she was integral in developing many of the city's programs still used, her proudest moment was when her team was able to establish a federally-qualified health center, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary.
Nancy Penner '81 takes the lessons learned in nursing school at Mount Mercy and in an early career with hospitals, and applies them to the law as an attorney for Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, P.L.C., in Cedar Rapids.
Though she had a great love for her nursing work, a risk management position exposed Penner to legal issues that impact health care providers and patients. The challenge of fully understanding some of those issues, and the proximity of the University of Iowa, sent her back to school.
Now, as a senior vice president in the firm, her focus is on health care legal issues, including the defense of medical malpractice lawsuits. Much of Penner's work is focused on the areas of health law, medical malpractice and appellate litigation.
Penner uses her nursing background and hospital experience regularly. On any given day, she might talk to a medical expert about allegations in a case, review a provider's quality improvement process, or draft an argument on a topic such as informed consent. In such work, Penner finds it helpful to have experience with hospitals, medical conditions and how health care professionals work together.
Though not connected on a day-to-day level with the medical field any longer, Penner's work as a lawyer has an impact on how medical law is practiced and executed in Iowa—an invaluable service to the health care field.
In addition to her work, Penner is active in the community as a way to stay connected with health care and nursing. Service is valued at Shuttleworth & Ingersoll and by Penner personally. One way Penner attempts to stay connected is to choose volunteer activities related to health care. She lends her extensive expertise to local medical and policy boards and organizations including the Continuing Care Hospital Board at St. Luke's, the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Executive Committee, and volunteers as an attorney for Iowa Legal Aid.


Non Compos Mentis - the classic rock band playing the likes of AC/DC, Whitesnake, Queen, Guns n Roses, Led Zeppelin - are rocking The Diamond in Sutton on Thursday, December 4.
Originally a Glasgow-based band, the present line-up includes high energy lead vocalist Kay Lavin, and Richard 'Animal' Jackson on drums. Support will be from Sheffield band Metropolis. Tickets are £2 members and £3 for non-members.


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The idea of a gratitude journal is to train your happiness muscle. Instead of focusing on negative things, it helps you to focus on the positive aspects of life. In this way, after writing more often in your journal, you reacquaint yourself on how to have an eye for and focus on the good things that life has to offer. This can help, even if you are facing a lot of adversity.
Research has shown that people who practice gratitude on a regular basis, even for a short while, have several benefits. It has been shown to increase positivity, improve self-esteem, help you sleep better, make you happier and reduce stress. It has even been shown to increase social connectedness and meaning and, in turn, wellbeing.
Starting your journal
Try to think about the many things in your life, both large and small, that you are grateful for. These might include supportive relationships, sacrifices or contributions that others have made for you, facts about your life such as your advantages and opportunities, or even gratitude for life itself and the world we live in. In all these cases, you are identifying previously unappreciated aspects of your life, for which you can be thankful. You may not have thought about yourself in this way before, but research suggests that doing so can have a strong positive effect on your mood and satisfaction of life.
Exercise 1: Write your journal
Now, write about the many things in your life, both large and small, that you have been grateful for in the past week.
That's it! Try to repeat this process for yourself on a regular basis (e.g., once a week). It might take some practice, but, by making this a habit, you will learn how to identify previously unappreciated aspects of your life. You may quickly start to feel the positive effects of writing a gratitude journal. Actively keeping a gratitude journal also helps you to reflect and look back on the positive things in your life that might have previously gone unnoticed.
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Second infected Harris County jail inmate dies; officials don't think COVID-19 is cause
St. John Barned-Smith May 7, 2020 Updated: May 7, 2020 7:07 p.m.
Second infected Harris County jail inmate dies; officials...
1of2A second inmate who tested positive for coronavirus has died, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.Photo: Godofredo A Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
2of2Harris County Jail, photographed Wednesday, July 24, 2019, in Houston.Photo: Godofredo A Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
A second inmate who tested positive for coronavirus has died, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. The announcement comes a day after the sheriff's office announced the first death of an inmate who had contracted the illness.
Spokesman Jason Spencer said that the second inmate died late Wednesday. He had gone to the jail infirmary on Tuesday, complaining of stomach pain, Spencer said. While being transported, he slumped forward, fell out of his wheelchair and hit his head on the way to the ground.
The inmate was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital, Spencer said, but he died Wednesday afternoon. Spencer declined to identify the inmate, citing advice from department attorneys about medical privacy laws.
Spencer said that while the inmate had tested positive for coronavirus, he had not displayed any symptoms, and medical staff do not believe he died from symptoms related to the virus.
The Texas Rangers are investigating both deaths, according to Lt. Craig Cummings, a Department of Public Safety spokesman. Cummings identified the second inmate as Jerome Nebuwa, 30. Nebuwa was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in May 2017. Court records show he made bond, but was re-arrested multiple times in the ensuing years for violating bond conditions. Prior to his 2017 arrest, he had been convicted of theft in 2016 and injury to an elderly person in 2013.
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According to a source familiar with the investigation, after Nebuwa was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital, doctors found he had a subdural hematoma — a brain bleed — and rushed him into surgery. It's not clear if Nebuwa suffered the bleed before the fall or because of it. Hospital staff also tested him for COVID-19. The tests showed he'd contracted the illness.
His attorney, Mark Lipkin, could not immediately be reached Thursday. Neither Sheriff Ed Gonzalez nor Judge Lina Hidalgo were available for comment.
Texas Commission on Jail Standards Executive Director Brandon Wood said his agency would be investigating, as is routine.
"We are going to have to get information on the deaths," he said. "Even during pandemic (jails) are going to have deaths due to underlying conditions or pre-existing medical conditions."
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One advocate for incarcerated inmates said that the case nevertheless raises serious concerns and underscored the need to reduce the number of inmates housed in the jail.
"Non-COVID deaths do not necessarily mean that the deaths aren't COVID related," said Krish Gundu, of the Texas Jail Project, recalling one diabetic inmate she'd spoken to several times who'd passed out after his insulin medication was delayed. "If he dies the next time his insulin is delayed, that will be medically listed as a non-COVID death. But we know differently based on the severe staffing issues due to COVID-19."
Nebuwa's death marks the fifth to hit the sheriff's office this year, and occurred just hours after the death of Arnold Cordess Hall, the 55-year-old inmate who was the first diagnosed with COVID-19. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed Hall's identity.
Spencer said Hall had arrived at the jail with serious underlying health issues for which he had been hospitalized weeks ago. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 while in the hospital for other issues, Spencer said.
A third inmate also died Wednesday, from an apparent heart attack, Spencer said. That inmate had only recently been booked in the jail, Spencer said.
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Court records show Hall arrived at the jail in October after being charged with assaulting and choking a woman named Jaleesa Thompson, who court records identify as a girlfriend but who relatives say was his stepdaughter.
Hall's court record stretches back to 1981. Prior to his conviction for domestic violence, he had racked up a slew of drug possession charges, and — back in the 1980s — convictions for criminal trespass, a DWI, and a robbery.
His daughter, Ashley Thompson, said she had just discovered Monday that her father had been hospitalized. Hall had suffered from schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder most of his life, she said, and spent decades battling drug addiction.
Because of those problems, her father wasn't in her life much, she said. She first met him when she was in 8th grade — and didn't see him again after that until she was 19.
"He wasn't capable of taking care of me," she said. Still, she treasured the moments they did share: meals of oxtail slathered in gravy, picnics outside, her father sitting on the porch smelling the wet air after a heavy rain. He loved coffee, and while he admitted to having failed as a father, he wanted to be present in the lives of his grandchildren.
Her mother never spoke ill of Hall, she said.
"She always told me good stuff about him," she said. "That it wasn't my dad's choice. Not he didn't want to (be a father), he didn't know how."
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