Mike Shula - Former Alabama Head Coach
Shula was hired at Alabama after the coaching debacle that was Mike Price in 2003. The program
was still under sanction from the NCAA when he arrived, and as a young coach and former star
quarterback for the Tide, fans were excited about the hire. In his first season Alabama went a
crippling 4-9. In 2004, they went 6-6 and lost to Minnesota in the Music City Bowl. The 2005 season
was better but this was the season Alabama lost Prothro to a horrible injury and Alabama lost the
Iron Bowl for the third season in a row. The final straw came in 2006 when Alabama lost to Auburn
a fourth time and Alabama offered to pay Mike Shula the $4 million dollars left on his contract and
fired him. Shula was known as a passive-aggressive coach that frustrated Alabama players to no
end. Alabama may put up with a lot, but losing four in a row to Auburn means you gotta go.


Mike DuBose - Former Alabama Head Coach
Mike DuBose stepped into the big shoes of Gene Stallings in 1996, as the fan favorite to succeed
the coach that had brought Alabama its first championship since the Bryant era. DuBose didn’t
have a perfect coaching style and his sloth-like demeanor made me angry, but he did manage an
SEC title while he was there. It all started going south in 2000 when Alabama barely beat Vanderbilt,
and then lost by three touchdowns to Southern Mississippi. DuBose tried to resign then, but Mal
Moore asked him not to. The Tide lost to Arkansas, LSU, Mississippi State and worst of all, Central
Florida. His admission of an affair with a subordinate (sound familiar) help lead to his dismissal. He
didn’t just leave a rotten season, he was part of the reason Alabama was crippled by NCAA sanctions
because of the recruitment of Albert Means.  And who could forget his compassion for the secretary's at Alabama.


Ellis Johnson - Former Southern Miss Head Coach
Despite not having much success as a head coach, Ellis Johnson had a glowing record
as a defensive coordinator and was well respected and liked across the college football
domain. Nevertheless, his arrival at Southern Miss in December 2011 proved to be the
kiss of death. After recording a 12-win season in 2011, the Golden Eagles went 0-12 under
Johnson. He was fired after that single season.


Mike Price - Alabama Head Coach (well sorta)
It’s almost hard to list Price as Alabama Head Coach since he didn’t coach a
single game. Price had the credentials to get the head coaching gig in Tuscaloosa
after he’d turned the Washington State Cougars into a Pac-10 threat. But during
spring 2003, just a couple months after being hired, rumors of Price’s salacious
behavior during a golf tournament in Pensacola, Florida began to surface. It was 
reported Price had been boozing it up at a strip club and an unidentified woman h
ad used his credit card to charge $1,000 worth of hotel room fees. Alabama fired
Price in May 2003, before he could coach a single Crimson Tide game.


Bobby Petrino - Former Arkansas & Louisville Head Coach
There’s no denying that Petrino was a masterful play-caller for the Razorbacks. But even his
34-17 record on the gridiron couldn’t have saved him from the 2012 scandal that cost him his
job. Petrino, who was married with four kids, was involved in a motorcycle accident in April of
that year, and a woman he was having an affair with was with him. Then it was revealed that
the woman was a 25-year-old on the football team support staff and that, in addition to the affair,
Petrino had gifted her $20,000. Petrino was suspended and then fired, and the Razorbacks
haven’t had a winning season since.


Charlie Strong - Former Louisville / Texas / USF Coach
For Charlie Strong, who was the first black head coach in Texas Longhorns history, the success he
hoped to have never came in Austin. Strong had the unenviable job of following Longhorns legend
Mack Brown. Texas went 6-7 in Strong's first season, but it failed to make a bowl game in back-to-back
5-7 seasons. The last game for Strong was a loss to Kansas, which had not beaten Texas since 1938.
Strong was replaced by current Longhorns coach Tom Herman, and he has spent the last two seasons
as the head coach at USF. After losing at USF, the Bulls fired Strong in 2019.


Houston Nutt - Former Arkansas / Ole Miss Head Coach
Houston Nutt served as a head coach in the SEC for 14 seasons from 1998-2011 with the Arkansas
Razorbacks and the Ole Miss Rebels. Nutt coached at Arkansas from 1998-2007, leading the
Razorbacks to three SEC West titles and three New Years Day bowl games in that time. He resigned
from his position at Arkansas following the 2007 regular season, which ended with a 50-48 win over
then-No. 1 LSU. He left Arkansas with a 75-48 record as coach of the Razorbacks.In November of
2007 Nutt signed to become the next football coach at the University of Mississippi, where he
coached for four seasons. Nutt hit the ground running, taking a team coming off three straight losing
seasons and helping it earn a spot in the final Associated Press poll in each of his first two seasons.
The Rebels went 9-4 both years and won back-t0-back Cotton Bowls before experiencing a major
drop-off. Ole Miss went 4-8 in 2010 and 2-10 in 2011, posting a 1-15 record against SEC opponents
during that time. Nutt set an Ole Miss coaching record with his 12th straight Southeastern Conference
loss. On November 7, 2011, Nutt was subsequently fired and replaced with Hugh Freeze. He was
24-26 in his four seasons as coach of the Rebels.=14pxIn January 2016, the NCAA notified Nutt's
former university, Mississippi, of 13 compliance violations alleged to have occurred under both Nutt
and then-head coach Hugh Freeze. Nutt was alleged to have cheated by allowing ineligible students
to play in Ole Miss games in 2011 and 2012. However, Nutt filed suit against Ole Miss, and the suit
was later settled with the university. 

Apparently, two assistants under Nutt had conspired to fix certain players ACT scores to make them
eligible to play and those assistants under Nutt were found guilty of academic fraud. These were the
only two violations which occurred under Nutt's administration; of the 21 total NCAA findings, the
remaining 19 violations were under Freeze's administration.