Every year it seems there is a Big Ten coach that gets fired. It is part of the game, unfortunately. You get a small amount of time to fix a program and either you do it or you are gone. Generally, coaches last at least four full seasons under the unspoken “You get one full team of ‘your guys’ in recruiting before you’re gone. It takes a special kind of dumb and/or suck to get fired in less than four years.
Here is the list of coaching casualties in the Big Ten in the last few seasons:
2016
Purdue – Darrell Hazell – was absolutely atrocious as a coach, going 9-33 before getting fired in 3.