Arizona has fired football coach Kevin Sumlin.
According to multiple reports, Sumlin was fired Saturday after a horrific 70-7 Friday night loss to Arizona State. Sumlin finished his career at Arizona with an abysmal 9-20 record. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
BREAKING: #Arizona is expected to dismiss Kevin Sumlin as the Wildcats head coach, sources tell me. U of A is 0-6 and on a 12-game losing streak.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 12, 2020
The University of Arizona fired football coach Kevin Sumlin after another losing season, the school confirmed Saturday.
— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) December 13, 2020
Arizona fires football coach Kevin Sumlin after 70-7 loss to ASU in Territorial Cup https://t.co/uxCfhrFGHq
— azcentral (@azcentral) December 13, 2020
Arizona has fired head coach Kevin Sumlin following a 70-7 loss to Arizona State on Friday night.
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— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) December 12, 2020
According to Berkowitz, Sumlin is still owed $7.3 million by the Wildcats.
Arizona fires football coach Kevin Sumlin. Per his contract, he is owed a buyout of about $7.3 million. He has no specified duty to mitigate, but if he does get another job in football or TV, Arizona will entitled to offset
— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) December 12, 2020
At this point, you have to wonder whether or not Sumlin will ever get a head coaching job again. He was run out of Texas A&M, and he went down in spectacular fashion with the Wildcats.
At some point, the dude is going to stop being taken seriously as a major P5 coaching option.
At the same time, you know he’s not sweating too bad! He might be unemployed, but he’s still getting straight paid!
Getting paid $7.3 million to not work is a hell of a situation to be in.
We’ll have to wait to see where he lands, but I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this was the end of the line for Sumlin when it comes to major coaching jobs.