David Climer of The Tennessean look across the league and discovers that the SEC’s “fire ‘em” attitude might be even more incredible than you think.

Since 1998, the twelve SEC schools have had 34 coaches (counting the yet-to-be-named guys at Auburn and Mississippi State). 

Climer rightly points out that that equals a coaching change every 2.83 years, but techically, that “average” is skewed by the fact that coaches who took over before ‘98 got no credit for their years of service prior to that year.  And the three new hires are counting as zero tenure.  That hurts the ol’ average, I’d say.

But you get the point.  The SEC is a graveyard for coaches.  Tommy Tuberville said it best before the season: “We beat tech other up, but we’re making a lot of money doing it.”

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