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[Joe Thiegs]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:


> I would be surprised if people could cite examples of college teams
> that fired assistant coaches mid-season and saw ANY improvement during
> that season.
>
> I doubt it happens with head coaches, either.  I wonder if anyone has
> stats on how often interim head coaches gets promoted to full-time head
> coach (either mid-season or afterwards), and how successful they are?
>

Well, I'm not advocating for a mid-season change here, but last year when
Tim Brewster got fired after starting 1-8, interim Minnesota head coach Jeff
Horton went 2-1, first losing at Michigan State but then posting improbable
wins at Illinois and at home against Iowa to win back Floyd of Rosedale for
the first time in four years to close out the season.  (The Gophers lost to
the Hawkeyes 0-55 and 0-12 the two prior seasons under Brewster.)

-Joe