In week one or week two, it’s almost always too early to discuss the coaching carousel for specific jobs. We see far too many times in this business a scenario in which a team loses twice but then cleans up its act as September and the season move along.
Recall when Mark Richt went 0-2 in 2011 but then won 10 straight and reached the SEC Championship Game? He went from hot seat to “quite secure again” in a hurry. Whenever a mini-crisis emerged, Richt would put it out. Other coaches have done the same on many occasions over the years. Seasoned fans stay the course, but plenty of fans panic after the dumpster-fire performance in week one or two. The carousel can’t really spin just then.
After a full month, though? Oh yeah — we can begin to spin around and around.
Four games don’t represent open-and-shut-case verdicts for most coaches, but they do for a few. This is true not solely because of the given season as viewed in isolation, but because of the circumstances which existed (or perhaps, pre-existed) in the offseason.
Just such a situation exists in Charlottesville, Virginia, where it is just about impossible to imagine a 2016 season in which Mike London is still coaching the Virginia Cavaliers.
This leads us to our story.
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