Published on Oct 23, 2025, 10:25:49 AM
Total time: 00:30:42
When a college program fires a coach mid-season, the ripple effects are significant: recruiting decommitments spike, players jump to the transfer portal, team morale suffere and on-field improvement is rarely immediate. Tom and Berry discuss the future of several programs who decided to axe its coach before the end of the season.
About the hosts
Berry Tramel is a columnist at the Tulsa World in Oklahoma. Tom Shatel is a columnist for the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska.
Tramel has been covering college football since 1979. Shatel has been covering Nebraska for the Omaha World-Herald since 1991 and has been covering college football since 1980.
Friends from their days covering the Big 8, these two get together once a week to talk all things college football.
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