Whipped Cream Difficulties

Jeff Tedford: out as coach at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tedford’s overall record is 82-57, “the most wins in school history by the longest-tenured coach in school history“. The problem was, Tedford went 15-22 in his last three seasons, 9-18 in conference, and 0-3 against Stanford.

The low point came in the last two weeks of this season as the Bears lost by a combined 90 points to Oregon (59-17) and Oregon State (62-14). Those two defeats are the biggest back-to-back losses in the 118-year history of Cal football.

And this one goes out to Gregg Easterbrook:

More damning still, the most recent NCAA figures showed Cal as having the worst graduation rate in football in the Pac-12.

Be careful what you ask for. You may just get it.

In the wake of a humiliating 40-0 loss to Vanderbilt on Saturday, his football team’s eighth consecutive defeat and ninth in 10 games this season, a demoralized Joker Phillips all but fell on his sword when he said it would be best for everyone involved if his boss at the University of Kentucky would say something about the coach’s future.

UK’s athletic director announced on Sunday that Joker Phillips would be leaving at the end of the season.

Phillips has a 12-23 record over “nearly three seasons”, and lost 18 of his last 24 games, including eight in a row this season. The team is 1-9 this season.

They haven’t even started playing the World Series yet, and Ozzie Guillen is out as the Florida Marlins manager.

In his one season with the team, it went 69-93, finished last in the NL East, and Ozzie managed to tick off the local Cubans (and get himself suspended for five games).

The decision was announced just 13 months after the Marlins traded two minor-leaguers to the Chicago White Sox to get Guillen and signed the manager to a four-year deal worth $10 million.

How about a little musical tribute to Mr. Guillen on a Wednesday morning?

And no Bobby Valentine.

Not since 1934 had the Red Sox fired a manager after only one season.

Who’s next?

Seth Greenberg out as Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach.

He went 170-123 in nine seasons, went to the NIT tourney five times and the NCAA tourney once.

The ESPN article made it sound like his firing was completely unexpected, but the one I’ve chosen to link above indicates the firing had less to do with his record and more to do with turnover among his assistant coaches.

“I don’t like coaches leaving an ACC program where we have constantly got to replenish all of our staff,” Weaver said. “I can certainly understand some coaches leaving. But to have as many leave as we had sat the wrong way with me.”

So is the implication here that there was a management problem? Because that’s what I’m picking up from AD Weaver’s statement.

…that giving a young woman a ride on your hog would get you fired?

Seriously, I don’t have a problem with Arkansas firing Bobby Petrino. It just comes as a surprise. I read FARK’s thread yesterday and the consensus was that he might get a short suspension, perhaps a fine, but the university wasn’t going to fire him.

Yeah, I know, FARK, hardly experts. But the consensus was that Petrino was rebuilding the program, and that was too important to the university. Thinking about it some more, I’m glad to see FARK was wrong, and the weasel is gone.

Edited to add: In all the discussion of this, I haven’t seen any coverage of the most important point: how bad was the damage to Petrino’s Harley Davidson Road King?