The summer season is heating up and so is school soccer’s scorching seat for head coaches. With the 2025 season approaching, the stress is on for a number of Energy 4 HCs.
Here is a have a look at 10 coaches on the new seat, damaged down by warmth stage.
Scorching
Mike Gundy | Oklahoma State
Gundy is a program legend, having led the Cowboys for 20 seasons, however a 3-9 mark final season that included a winless Massive 12 slate has his seat scorching. He fired his offensive and defensive coordinators and restructured his contract, lessening his buyout. It is now or by no means for Gundy.
Gundy sounds at peace with the stress that is on him. “It does not have an effect on me simply from a standpoint that I am up to now alongside in my profession, I get it,” Gundy said, per CBS Sports Shehan Jeyarajah. “If somebody says, ‘Hey, we have to change the coach at Oklahoma State,’ then I am going coach someplace else.”
Brent Venables | Oklahoma
From 2015-21, the Sooners by no means misplaced greater than two video games in a season. Underneath Venables, they’ve a pair of 6-7 seasons sandwiched round a 10-3 marketing campaign. OU has slipped from its perch among the many sport’s greats, and in a difficult SEC, the best way again to the highest is not straightforward.
“It is all of us collectively, linking arms, checking egos and having very clearly outlined processes in place after which having the professionalism that it takes to work collectively and do issues the proper manner,” Venables recently told CBS Sports.
Sam Pittman | Arkansas
Pittman has been dwelling on the new seat these days. He survived 2024, however there’s little room for optimism in 2025. The Razorbacks host Notre Dame and should journey to powerhouses Ole Miss, Tennessee, LSU and Texas. Will a .500 report be sufficient to get Pittman to 2026?
The Athletic’s Seth Emerson positioned Pittman on the most well liked seat within the SEC in February. “That is two straight years that Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek has needed to verify Pittman was getting one other yr,” Emerson wrote. “Thrice can be a bit a lot.”
Hugh Freeze | Auburn
Freeze is one other SEC coach who wants a fast turnaround after a pair of dropping seasons. His predecessor, Bryan Harsin, was fired for a 9-12 mark. Freeze is 11-14. A strong recruiting class is trigger for optimism, however will it result in outcomes on the sphere?
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