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Being a football coach is not the most stable of jobs. Being a coordinator at Auburn or Troy is downright risky.

Jon Solomon of the Birmingham News surveyed 120 I-A teams for the number of coordinators since 1999, when Tommy Tuberville, above, made his debut at Auburn. Of the 15 coaches who have held the same job since 1999, Tuberville and Troy's Larry Blakeney have each burned through 10 coordinators, tops in the land.

On average, the 15 coaches have employed only 5.6 coordinators in 10 years.

Tuberville recently fired offensive coordinator Tony Franklin and in reality is on his 11th coordinator, but he has yet to give interim play-caller Steve Ensminger the coordinator title.

In fairness, five of Tuberville's coordinators have left for better gigs. The other five have been fired or demoted.

Auburn currently has two offensive coordinators on the payroll — Franklin and Al Borges, who was cut loose last December.

Coordinators With One Coach
The 15 coaches who have held the same job since 1999:
Coach                                  Off.         Def.    Total     10-Year Record
Tommy Tuberville, Auburn        5            5          10           84-37
Larry Blakeney, Troy                 5            5          10           69-45
Pat Hill, Fresno State               5            2            7           78-45
Randy Edsall, Connecticut        4            3           7           55-57
Rocky Long, New Mexico          4            3            7           62-56
Bob Stoops, Oklahoma             4            2            6          103-23
Jim Leavitt, South Florida        4            2            6           72-39
Mack Brown, Texas                   1            5            6          101-22
Mike Bellotti, Oregon               4            1            5            81-37
Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee         3            1            4            83-38
Bobby Bowden, Florida State    3           1            4            86-35
Joe Paterno,  Penn State          2            2           4             73-45
Joe Tiller, Purdue                    3            1            4            67-52
Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech     2            1           3             95-28
Kirk Ferentz, Iowa                   1            1            2            66-52

Coordinators by Conference Since 1999
The average number of coordinators per team in each BCS conference:
Conference     Total   Offensive        Defensive       Coaches
Pac-10             8.6         4.8                   3.8                 2.8
SEC                 8.4         3.7                   4.7                 2.4
ACC                8.2         4.4                   3.8                  2.4
Big 12             7.9         3.8                   4.1                  2.3
Big Ten           6.1         3.0                   3.1                  2.2
Big East          8.3         4.3                   4.0                  2.1

Comments

[Phil Fulmer's Mom]

This blog used to be a must read when you were actually writing original content. Now it just seems like a depository for youtube links, newspaper links, and photo links.

[Phil Fulmer's Mom]

Oh yeah, my point was, this article is a step in the right direction but it still looks like you swiped it from a newspaper article

[Marty]

Please post more YouTube links of Erin Andrews, more newspaper articles about Erin Andrews, and more photo links of Erin Andrews. Thanks in advance.