How the new coaches are doing around the nation...

[Dwayne From Minden]

In general teams replace a coach because of bad performance. I'd expect a first year coach to be taking over a struggling team most of the time. In our case, the coach was successful and was hired away. How many of those coaches listed came into that situation?

13 that I count...

Only 2 have losing records -

Several other are at .500

[rockdog]

In general teams replace a coach because of bad performance. I'd expect a first year coach to be taking over a struggling team most of the time. In our case, the coach was successful and was hired away. How many of those coaches listed came into that situation?

Good question. I think the following teams had their coaches hired away (I may have missed some, so I apologize in advance):

Team	'12 Record	'13 Record
Arkansas State	10-3	6-4
Kent State	11-3	3-8
La Tech	9-3	4-6
Northern Illinois	12-2	10-0
Oregon	12-1	9-1
San Jose State	11-2	5-5
Texas Tech	8-5	7-4
Utah State	11-2	6-4
Western Kentucky	7-6	6-4
Wisconsin	8-6	8-2

Four of those teams are doing worse, but Kent State and La Tech are the only ones on this list that had to replace a coaching staff and replace most of their team.

[Dawg06]

In general teams replace a coach because of bad performance. I'd expect a first year coach to be taking over a struggling team most of the time. In our case, the coach was successful and was hired away. How many of those coaches listed came into that situation?

13 that I count...

Only 2 have losing records -

Several other are at .500

Yep. It's not as simple as just having a new coach. Each coach comes into a different situation, many of which are losing situations.

[qng001]

But we have a very "easy" schedule.