Are mid-season firings on an uptick?

It's cyclical. It doesn't happen that often and it usually only happens when there are limited numbers of highly valued potential replacements to be had, with HC experience .... which IS a trend. Not so many assistants and/or coordinators that the majors are willing to gamble on these days.

I suspect that Arkansas already has their guy. He's got the street creds with the brothers .... hooer on the back of the bike thing.

Kiffin would be nuts to leave Ole Miss for the UF pressure cooker.

Indiana (they do have money) kept Cignetti in place and away from Penn State.

Oklahoma State .... who knows, but they have money to go shopping. They're already shopping. The big question for them is who?

If there was any truth to the Beamer to Va Tech rumors ... he'd already be gone and we'd wish him well and breath a sigh of relief.

UF is the big question mark right now. They gotta go big. They're in a tough spot.

But back to the question .... we're just in one of those every 15-20 year cycles right now.

I think now with December signing day and January portal, you basically need to fire as soon as you are ready to offer the next coach.

When signing day was in February and there was no portal, you could fire them after the last game.