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Hot seat watch, Week 1: 5 coaches feeling the heat

By Charles Rahrig V

ORLANDO, FL - JANUARY 01: Head coach Ed Orgeron of the LSU Tigers looks on against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the Citrus Bowl on January 1, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Notre Dame won 21-17. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
ORLANDO, FL - JANUARY 01: Head coach Ed Orgeron of the LSU Tigers looks on against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish during the Citrus Bowl on January 1, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Notre Dame won 21-17. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) /
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LAWRENCE, KS – NOVEMBER 18: Kansas Jayhawks head coach David Beaty stalks the sidelines in the first quarter of a Big 12 game between the Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas Jayhawks on November 18, 2017 at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, KS. (Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
LAWRENCE, KS – NOVEMBER 18: Kansas Jayhawks head coach David Beaty stalks the sidelines in the first quarter of a Big 12 game between the Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas Jayhawks on November 18, 2017 at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, KS. (Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /

4. David Beaty – Kansas

The Kansas Jayhawks have a long road back just to even being a program that can win three or four games in a season. That’s how terrible they have become as a whole and how downtrodden things are.

Yet, they’ve shown incredible patience and faith in head coach David Beaty. His first three years would have gotten him fired at any program across the country, but Kansas is in dire need of consistency in the worst way that they have decided to let him enter his fourth season.

It’s pretty remarkable that a coach that has a .083 win percentage and has lost 33 of 36 games in his tenure has managed to hang on, but that’s how bleak things have been for a program that is good for one win a season if they’re lucky.

However, Beaty can’t have a one or even a two-win season in 2018 if he wants to keep his job. It’s hard to see Kansas jumping up and taking a big leap, but there has to be real progress on the field to show that it’s worth keeping him around.

The Jayhawks begin their season against Nicholls State and that is their best bet at a win this season. That being said, there are no guarantees when it comes to Kansas football. If Beaty’s program loses this week, another long painful season is on the way and he’ll soon be out of a job.

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