Army’s Jeff Monken is quite literally the safest college football coach in the country. Every day he shows up to work and he’s surrounded by young men who will one day serve as officers in the United States Military. He’s also quite safe in the sense he doesn’t need to worry about being fired any time soon.
In our annual College Football Hot Seat Rankings released on Tuesday, all but one of our voters gave Monken a score of 0 when it comes to the warmth of his seat. The lone voter who gave him a 1 only gave one coach a score of 0 — and it was Colorado’s Deion Sanders.
While Monken doesn’t generate the same type of publicity as his counterpart in Boulder, Colorado, he’s no less revered by those he works for at West Point. The 2025 season will be his 12th with Army, and he’s coming off the program’s first conference title in school history. Of course, while Army first began playing football in 1890, it’s only spent eight of its 134 seasons in a conference at all, but the program’s first dalliance with league play went extremely poorly.
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In seven seasons as a member of Conference USA from 1998 to 2004, the Black Knights went 9-41 in conference play and only 13-67 overall. Monken, in his first season in a conference considered by most to be the best Group of Five…
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Author : Tom Fornelli
Publish date : 2025-07-09 15:07:00
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