It's obvious that some of this is a little bit tongue in cheek but some is very accurate. I would have to say that Gomer Jones is a close rival to their choice for Oklahoma.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/949886-college-football-the-worst-coach-in-the-history-of-every-bcs-program?utm_source=outbrain.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bestof#/articles/949886-college-football-the-worst-coach-in-the-history-of-every-bcs-program

How does O'Leary make the list for Notre Dame (having never coached a game -as noted by the author) and Mike Price doesn't make the list for Alabama? O'Leary lied on a resume (which should have been forgiven by a religious institution BTW) while Price had sex with strippers while on university business.

Kerry, obviously winning 4 games in 3 years is a much worse sin in Alabama than having sex with strippers.

How does O'Leary make the list for Notre Dame (having never coached a game -as noted by the author) and Mike Price doesn't make the list for Alabama? O'Leary lied on a resume (which should have been forgiven by a religious institution BTW) while Price had sex with strippers while on university business.

It seems easy for anything about the personal and management side to be totally lost here, many sports writers are doing good to cover the market they write to and have some idea in what is happening in the rest of the schools in the conference they face.

Plus, a lot of schools could have multiple people on their wall of shame for totally different reasons, with many of the schools programs covered being between 100 to 125 years old stats are some of the few easy things to compare reliably. The amount of time to do research on every schools coach outside of stats is going to be huge and only gets harder the longer it has been since they left. I would almost guess they chose a short list of candidates by stats before even looking at their bio to make a final decision. With exceptions possibly for anyone who got the school on probation.

If Mike Price isn't the worst coach ever at Alabama then O'Leary is not the worst at Notre Dame. That award goes to Ty Willingham.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Willingham


2002
On December 31, 2001, Willingham was hired as head coach at Notre Dame.[2] Willingham began the 2002 season by going 8–0, and went on to become the only first-year coach in Notre Dame history to win 10 games. For his efforts he was named the ESPN/Home Depot College Coach of the Year,[3] the Scripps College Coach of the Year, the Black Coaches Association Male Coach of the Year, and the George Munger Award College Coach of the Year by the Maxwell Football Club.[4]

In the 2002 regular-season finale, ND was blown out by arch-rival USC, 44–13, and was outgained 610–109—the worst such margin in school history.[5] That loss knocked ND from a likely Bowl Championship Series berth down to the 2003 Gator Bowl—where they were summarily routed by North Carolina State, 28–6.[6]

[edit] 2003
The 2003 team finished 5–7 and was beaten badly in four of those losses, getting shut out twice in one season for the first time since 1960 and finishing with a point differential of 243–315[7]—the worst of any Fighting Irish team since the 2–8 team of 1956.

[edit] 2004
In 2004, Notre Dame posted a 6–5 record in the regular season, including a 41–16 loss to Purdue (The second-worst home loss ever to Purdue) and ending with Willingham's third consecutive loss to USC for his fifth loss by 30 points or more, and eighth by 22 points or more, in his three seasons. The following Tuesday, November 30, after an overall record in South Bend of 21–15, Notre Dame terminated Willingham as head coach.[8] Defensive coordinator Kent Baer served as acting head coach for the Insight Bowl, a 38–21 loss to Oregon State.