"So the next trick for us to figure out who gets done next. (Dabo Swinney, we presume, will simply ascend into heaven if he decides to forgo the hell of Congress.) I'd hazard a guess at Eastern Michigan's Chris Creighton, only because his team isn't swell, he's been at it for more than a decade, and the security of coaching tenure is at an all-time low."
"Losing to Tulsa was known to be a terrible idea the last time it happened 30 years ago, but that was when the state was taking a few years off from college football. Now guys get cracked at the drop of a pass because football wants to be more like soccer, where if you go 1-1-1, you're automatically on the hot seat. College football will achieve its truest state when every team that does not win the national championship fires its coach."
Dabo Swinney is depicted as a likely political figure while Mike Gundy, a long-tenured coach, is described as having overseen Oklahoma State's decline culminating in a loss to Tulsa. Modern college football punishes mediocrity quickly, equating 1-1-1 records with hot-seat status and suggesting coaches are disposable unless they win championships. Visible money in the sport fuels public scrutiny and accelerates turnover. Eastern Michigan's Chris Creighton is named as a possible future casualty of shrinking coaching security. A question is raised about the assumed unpaid status of 'student-athletes' and how much compensation would change that.
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