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Do new athletic directors still spell doom for football coaches?

Do new athletic directors still spell doom for football coaches?

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Here's how the narrative used to work in college football: when a coach struggling to win found himself working for a new athletic director, his chances of getting fired went up significantly. The AD, the all-powerful head of a college's sports programs, simply wouldn't owe any loyalty to an underachiever they hadn't hired.

So Ryan Nanni looked at the last four years of coach firings, compared them to a four year stretch from a decade earlier, and took the results to Steven Godfrey. Is this trope still real? Has it changed over time, and what do those shifts reflect about the power shifts within athletic departments? And how many times could you have fired Derek Dooley for the price of firing Jimbo Fisher?

Phantom Island is presented by Homefield and produced by Michael Surber.
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