Mike Leach

ONLY MIKE LEACH REMAINS. Four high profile Pac-12 coaches were hired all around the same time in late 2011 but headed into the 2018 season, only Washington State’s coach is still standing among the group.



And that makes Leach the third-longest tenured coach in the Pac-12 after six seasons at WSU.



Leach is also the 25th-longest tenured head coach in the FBS based on hire date.



Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez, hired nine days before Leach, was fired from Arizona in January. UCLA’s Jim Mora and ASU’s Todd Graham, hired just after Leach was named at WSU, were both shown the door before the end of the season.



Leach's WSU contract rolled over for another year this past December. He is now signed through 2022 at Washington State.



THE PAC-12 WILL feature five new head coaches this year -- in addition to Rodriguez, Mora and Graham, Gary Andersen resigned from Oregon State and Willie Taggart bolted Oregon for Florida State after one season in Eugene.



In the Pac-12, only one coach, Utah's Kyle Whittingham, took the helm before 2011.



Here's when the Pac-12 coaches were hired:



1. Dec. 9, 2004, Kyle Whittingham, Utah

2. Jan. 13, 2011, David Shaw, Stanford

3. Nov. 30, 2011, Mike Leach, Washington State

4. Dec. 10, 2012, Mike MacIntyre, Colorado

5. Dec. 6, 2013, Chris Petersen, Washington

6. Nov. 30, 2015, Clay Helton, Southern California

7. Jan. 14, 2017, Justin Wilcox, California

8. Nov. 25, 2017, Chip Kelly, UCLA

9. Nov. 29, 2017, Jonathan Smith, Oregon State

10. Dec. 3, 2017, Herm Edwards, Arizona State

11. Dec. 8, 2017, Mario Cristobal, Oregon

12. Jan. 14, 2018, Kevin Sumlin, Arizona



The FBS coach who has been in place the longest is Iowa's Kirk Ferentz. He is the only remaining FBS coach who was hired in the 20th century.



The longest tenured FBS coaches:

1. Dec. 2, 1998: Kirk Ferentz, Iowa

2. Dec. 8, 2000: Gary Patterson, Texas Christian

3. Dec. 9, 2004, Kyle Whittingham, Utah

4. Dec. 16, 2004: Frank Solich, Ohio

5. Jan. 3, 2005, Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State

6. Dec. 12, 2005, Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee

7. July 7, 2006, Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern

8. November 27, 2006, Mark Dantonio, Michigan State

9. Dec. 22, 2006, Troy Calhoun, Air Force

10. Jan. 3, 2007, Nick Saban, Alabama



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