The coach of the Texans has a chance to get off of this list on Sunday when Houston plays the Jacksonville. Too bad he won't be able to beat Meyer.
Everyone who did worse than Meyer as a head coach in the NFL never got another job as an NFL head coach, which is how it should be. Only one of the six previous megaflops ever was a head coach again, and not even in college, but Canada, where Rust didn't last a full season.
Is there a chance that Meyer could change the trend? Yes. It is possible that his performance in the NFL means that we have seen the last of Meyer being able to call himself a head ball.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars have parted ways with Urban Meyer after he went 2-11 in his only season as coach. It doesn't feel like this is the end of the coaching road for Meyer, even though he leaves with a lower winning percentage in the league than Marty Mornhinweg.
Is there precedent for that? Let's take a look at the worst-performing head coaches with at least 10 games in their futile reigns.
After coaching Florida State through the 1960s, he moved across town to the Houston Astros and was hired off a 3-7-1 campaign with the Owls. He went 1-13 in his first year and was canned after five straight losses. Central Florida had an athletic director in the 1980s that was once coached by Peterson.
Rust was a defensive coach in the National Football League for 10 years and ran a pro team in 1990 that went 1-15. After taking a year off, he came back as the Giants defensive coach and went on to work for other teams. After three years as the Giants' linebackers coach, Rust returned to be the Giants' defensive coach.
After five years coaching Indiana and five years as the Chargers offensive coordinator, he was hired by the Miami Dolphins. After five years as the Ravens' offensive mind, he was fired after the 14th week of the 2012 season. Les Miles had seen him as LSU's offensive coordinator.
After Lou Saban resigned from the Bills in 1976, Ringo took over and went 0-9 the rest of the season, but still got a chance in 1977. He was an assistant with the Bills and the Jets after that, and he was an assistant with the Rams and the Pats after that.
In his time as an interim head coach of the Colts and Saints, he only had one win, but it was better than his only full-time head coach experience. After his time in New Orleans, the Saints kept him on staff as an assistant through 2005, and he went on to work for the Rams for three years.
In 1968, Johnson took over as interim head coach and went 1-10-1. The head coaching job went to Johnson in 1971 because of Buffalo's poor performance. The Bills kept Johnson around as a scout for the rest of his life, possibly because he was friends with the owner. He never coached anywhere else.
The coach of the Texans has a chance to get off of this list on Sunday when Houston plays the Jacksonville. Too bad he won't be able to beat Meyer.
Everyone who did worse than Meyer as a head coach in the NFL never got another job as an NFL head coach, which is how it should be. Only one of the six previous megaflops ever was a head coach again, and not even in college, but Canada, where Rust didn't last a full season.
Is there a chance that Meyer could change the trend? Yes. It is possible that his performance in the NFL means that we have seen the last of Meyer being able to call himself a head ball.
