(Not Howard. Smart enough to retire).
Hootie Ingram
Red Parker
Danny Ford (I question whether a firing but if so it wasn’t for win/losses. Maybe insubordination? Firings are sometimes couched as resignations. I looked at it as making an offer he couldn’t accept)
Ken Hatfield
Tommy West
Tommy Bowden
Unless I missed something, and I don’t think I did, each coach on that list won his last game vs the Gamecocks and still was fired.
Hatfield after an 8-3 season. West at 3-8 already knew going into the game. As did Brad Scott. Bowden actually made it through 3/4 of the 2008 season but had beaten them in 2007. Ingram had 3 bad years but beat them 7-6 in the sleet game in 1972 when the Cocks failed on a two point conversion. He was going to be fired anyway.
The only one who folks thought might have saved his job with the win was Red Parker. He had recruited very well(see Fuller) and the 3-6-2 Tigs looked good in some losses to really good teams. And knocked favored South Carolina out of a bowl by whipping them 28-9. In retrospect the die may have been cast because before the season he had been forced to hire a guy named Pell prior to the season.
Hootie Ingram
Red Parker
Danny Ford (I question whether a firing but if so it wasn’t for win/losses. Maybe insubordination? Firings are sometimes couched as resignations. I looked at it as making an offer he couldn’t accept)
Ken Hatfield
Tommy West
Tommy Bowden
Unless I missed something, and I don’t think I did, each coach on that list won his last game vs the Gamecocks and still was fired.
Hatfield after an 8-3 season. West at 3-8 already knew going into the game. As did Brad Scott. Bowden actually made it through 3/4 of the 2008 season but had beaten them in 2007. Ingram had 3 bad years but beat them 7-6 in the sleet game in 1972 when the Cocks failed on a two point conversion. He was going to be fired anyway.
The only one who folks thought might have saved his job with the win was Red Parker. He had recruited very well(see Fuller) and the 3-6-2 Tigs looked good in some losses to really good teams. And knocked favored South Carolina out of a bowl by whipping them 28-9. In retrospect the die may have been cast because before the season he had been forced to hire a guy named Pell prior to the season.
