Brian Callahan out as head coach of the Tennessee Titans.
He was coach for roughly a season and a half. The Titans are currently 1-5. Additional coverage from ESPN.
Archive for the ‘Firings’ Category
Callahan!
Monday, October 13th, 2025Firings watch.
Monday, October 13th, 2025Trent Dilfer out as head coach of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
(Sorry this link is so mangled. ESPN, if you prefer.)
2-4 this season, 9-21 in “two plus” seasons.
UAB actually tried to shut down their football program a while back, but there were mass protests, etc. and they went back on that decision. Maybe it is time to reconsider.
Your NFL loser update: week 6, 2025. (Plus: firings!)
Sunday, October 12th, 2025NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-17:
NY Jets
Denver 13, NY Jest 11. It was closer than I (kind of) expected, but I did say these foreign games are unpredictable.
Next week: Carolina. At the moment, the Jets are a slight favorite.
And, in an attempt to put all the norts spews in one place for everyone:
James Franklin out after 12 years at Penn State. 104-45 overall, “the second winningest coach” in PSU history, but they lost to Northwestern 22-21 yesterday. PSU was a heavy favorite in that game.
They are 3-3 this season, and it looks like they lost their starting quarterback for the season. More from ESPN.
Trent Bray out as coach of Oregon State, which is 0-7 this season. 5-14 over “less than two seasons”, lost 13 of his final 14 games, and OSU was defeated 39-14 by Wake Forest yesterday. ESPN.
Edited to add: Lawrence pointed out that the Jest finished with…-10 yards passing. That’s not a typo: negative 10 passing yards. 45 yards passing, 55 yards lost to sacks.
Wow. Ryan Leaf.
Mendoza!
Friday, October 3rd, 2025Firings watch.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025Brian Snitker is out as manager of the Atlanta Braves.
This is questionably a “firing”, as the team says he’s moving into an “advisory role”. He’s been around the organization for 49 years, and won the World Series in 2021.
But Atlanta was 76-87 this season, which seems to have made the retirefiring decision easier.
(I apologize for the ESPN link, but the AJC is unreadable without a subscription. And my attempt to archive the story resulted in garbage.)
Bill Schmidt out as general manager of the Colorado Rockies. That’s the 119 loss Colorado Rockies, for those of you keeping track at home.
Firings watch.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2025Ron Washington out as manager of the Los Angeles Angels.
Mr. Washington had medical issues that caused him to miss a large part of the season. ESPN quotes him as saying this wasn’t based on health, but on performance. He was 99-137 in two seasons.
Somewhat related: the City of Anaheim gets $2 for every ticket the Angels sell above the 2.6 million ticket mark.
The city’s cut this year? $31,012.
…
And the city has a $64 million budget deficit.
Your NFL loser update: week 4, 2025.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2025NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-17:
NY Jets
Tennessee
New Orleans
The worthless Bills are 4-0.
The New York Football Giants actually beat the worthless Chargers?
And the Packers and Cowboys tied? Not just a tie, but it was also a Scorigami.
In other news, the firings will continue until morale improves. Bruce Bochy out as manager of the Texas Rangers. This is being spun as “by mutual agreement”, but I always wonder how much “mutual” there is in these.
That was over three years: the team was 81-81 this year.
Firings watch.
Monday, September 29th, 2025The MLB regular season is over. Time for the baseball version of “Bloody Monday”.
Rocco Baldelli out as manager of the Minnesota Twins. 70-92 this season.
ESPN.
Bob Melvin out as manager of the San Francisco Giants.
…
He was 161-163 in two seasons with San Francisco.
ESPN.
I’m Gundy, damn it!
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025I guess this counts as a “big” firing, or at least a larger one:
Mike Gundy out at Oklahoma State.
Gundy, 58, is the winningest coach in program history with a record of 170-90 over his 20-plus seasons, accounting for 26.6% of the school’s all-time victories.
No single figure has had as much direct impact over such a significant amount of time as Gundy, who has spent 35 of the past 40 seasons at Oklahoma State in some form.
But this is kind of a “what have you done for me lately” thing. Especially if you define “lately” as “since 2021”.
The 2021 squad came inches short of defeating Baylor and potentially earning a College Football Playoff bid…
But since that moment, OSU has gone 21-21, despite a 10-4 season in 2023 that included another appearance in the Big 12 title game.
The 2024 team went 0-9 in conference play, and the 1-2 start with a 66-point loss to Oregon and a 19-12 loss to Tulsa spelled the end for Gundy, concluding his career with a record of 170-90 (.654 winning percentage), and 12-6 in bowl games.
Noted:
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Not quite the war font, but fairly close.
Edited to add: ESPN, for those who want supplemental coverage.
Firings watch.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025I figure that there’s going to be some kind of big firing this week. So far, I haven’t seen any, but there’s been a few small firings.
Sandy Brondello out as coach of the New York Liberty, although this is being presented as non-renewal of her contract. The Liberty won the WNBA championship last year, but were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs this year.
Ms. Brondello was 107-53 in four seasons.
Ike Hilliard out as wide receivers coach for the Atlanta Falcons.
Firings watch.
Monday, September 15th, 2025It was another one of those busy weekends for me.
It was also a busy weekend for sports firings, so getting caught up:
DeShaun Foster out at UCLA. Heh. Heh. Heh. 5-10 in “a little more than one full season”, and 0-3 so far this season. ESPN.
Brent Pry out as head coach of Virginia Tech. 16-24 in “four seasons” and, yes, 0-3 so far this season. ESPN.
Zero Stars.
Friday, June 6th, 2025Pete DeBoer out as head coach of the Dallas Stars.
(Sorry for the straight-up ESPN link, but the Dallas papers are pretty much unlinkable.)
Knick knack paddy whack…
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025This is still breaking news, but: The New York Knickerbockers just fired head coach Tom Thibodeau.
In five seasons with the Knicks, Thibodeau led them to a 226-174 regular-season record, and they made the playoffs in four of his five seasons at the helm.
When it came to the postseason, however, a 24-23 mark with the Knicks didn’t cut it.
ESPN.
The greatest spectacle in auto racing.
Wednesday, May 21st, 2025This is fallout from a cheating scandal:
The trouble for Team Penske began before the fast 12 shootout on Sunday, when rival team owner Chip Ganassi was among a chorus of competitors who accused it of cheating. They noticed unapproved changes had been made to the rear attenuator, a safety device designed to absorb and reduce the force of impacts, and the assumption was the modifications would have given the two Team Penske cars an aerodynamic advantage in their four-lap qualifying runs.
Further investigation showed Newgarden’s winning car from last year that is displayed in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway museum has the same illegal modification, as did the car Team Penske brought to the White House last month. Rivals claim to have photos indicating the modification has been in place for some time.
This is the second Team Penske scandal in a year:
By the way, the greatest spectacle in racing is not the Indy 500. At least, not this year.
This will be streaming live on Friday, but, sadly, while I’m at work. I’m hoping that someone will try to drift a Wienermobile, and highlights show up…somewhere.