Coaching Hotseat: Early Edition

by NIU1981 on Sep 23, 2009 10:37 AM CDT in Football Comment 2 comments

Now that we're three games into the new season let's take a quick look at the MAC football coaching hotseat.

We'll know more once conference play starts but a few trends are already clear. All the coaches in the MAC West are in good shape with the possible exception of Stan Parrish at Ball State. He gets a pass this year due to the tremendous loss of talent from last year's squad but this season has gone poorly so far and if he gets off to a bad start next year he could be in trouble.

In the MAC East I would say Kent State's Doug Martin and Akron's J.D. Brookhart, both in their sixth season at their respective schools, have to be feeling some heat. Neither has been able to field a consistent winner and the natives are getting restless, particularly on the Akron message board. There's still lots of time for these guys to turn it around this season but Kent State is dealing with the unfortunate loss of Eugene Jarvis and currently starting a freshman at quarterback while Akron has suspended their senior quarterback indefinitely. We'll check back in later this season to see how it's gone.

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J.D. Brookhart is in the most trouble.

Kent is successful enough in other, low visibility, sports and if the Administration cared about football 5 years of Martin (19-39) would have been enough to get him the boot last season. If kent wins four games this year Martin may survive.

Brookhart on the other hand is part of a program that just built a 65 million dollar stadium. Akron needs some success and in addition to not winning (much) now there are three player suspensions and a rumored recruiting violation this year! If Akron struggles enough in conference play (loses the first few) he might not make the year.

by Tim Riordan on Sep 23, 2009 2:01 PM CDT reply actions

Agreed

It seems as though Brookhart’s lost control of his team a la Gregg Brandon last year. They did just hire a new AD and have a brand new stadium, so he does have a good chance at staying for possibly another year.

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by Mike Breese on Sep 23, 2009 6:43 PM CDT up reply actions