aggiehawg said:
BUT fact remains, Saban won a natty fairly quickly. Les Miles won one too. Even the drunk Ed Orgeron won one. All won within four years. Kelly's fourth year and he is no closer, even farther away, IMO. And Miles and Orgeron were fired.
Appears I am not alone in that assessment.
Sa(t)an won quickly twice: once at LSU, once at Alabama.
Orgeron won quickly with a generational QB. So, too, did Gene Chizik at Auburn. Both were gone very quickly thereafter. (And KDS would've won his first year if we'd have had a kicker worth anything, OR La Tech doesn't reschedule and gives a chance to work out the kinks prior to Florida).
Kirby Smart? Okay, six seasons.
Jimbo at FSU? Four seasons, with a generational quarterback.
Dabo took six seasons.
Ryan Day took five seasons.
Mack Brown took eight seasons.
Urban Meyer took three at tOSU, and three (four?) at Florida.
Spongebob took two years.
EDIT: forgot Sweatervest (Tressel) at tOSU. Two seasons as head coach there before his title.
The average is around four years, and is skewed a bit higher by including Mack-daddy and Dabo. So the modern coach basically has that long to show he's going to do SOMEthing.
EDIT: the median is three, and --get this--the mode is two years. TWO!
BK did not.
