Every school dreams of hiring the next Nick Saban who can transform its football program into a national champion.
CBS Sports recently championed the 25 best coaching hires of this century, headlined by Alabama hiring Saban in 2006. Over 17 seasons in Tuscaloosa, Saban dominated the sport, winning six national championships and nine SEC championships.
Unfortunately, the vast majority fail miserably at even finding a winning coach, let alone one capable of winning major championships. That’s where this list comes in.
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If there are 25 best hires, we believe there must be 25 worst ones, too. These are the hires that still make you shudder if you’re a fan of the program. The coaches who delivered lows you didn’t even believe were possible.
This isn’t simply about win-loss record, though. While that obviously factored into our rankings, there’s much more that goes into why a hire failed than just the on-field results. Other things we took into account:
Did the hire make sense in the first place?Did the coach’s predecessor have success? Does the program have the resources to win?Why didn’t it work?
With all those things in mind, we came up with the worst of the worst: The 25 worst coaching hires this century.
Note: We only counted hires…
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Author : John Talty
Publish date : 2025-07-06 14:00:00
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