Coaching Pressure Index: 10 Head Coaches under Pressure this Season

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt looks at 10 Head Coaches and breaks down how much pressure each is under heading into the upcoming season. He also points out which games in the schedule the temperature could really ratchet up on them. He discusses coaches with big expectations like Penn State’s James Franklin and LSU’s Brian Kelly as well as HC’s like USC’s Lincoln Riley and Oklahoma’s Brent Venables who are trying to convince their fanbases that they are the right coaches for the jobs. What level of pressure is Kalen DeBoer under to perform in Year 2 at Alabama? How has Nico Iamaleava’s departure affected the need for a big season for Josh Heupel at Tennessee? How comfortable are Billy Napier and Mike Norvell in the battle with Miami for supremacy in the state of Florida? It’s been an eventful start at North Carolina for Bill Belichick – has he brought pressure on himself to perform in Year 1? Klatt also discusses the situation Luke Fickell finds himself in at Wisconsin as he tries to bring the Badgers back to the top half of the Big Ten while staring at one of the toughest schedules in the country. 0:00-1:45 Intro1:46-3:04 Klatt’s coaching pressure index3:05-6:52 Kalen DeBoer6:53-10:16 James Franklin10:17-13:49 Lincoln Riley13:50-17:35 Brent Venables17:36-21:04 Brian Kelly21:05-25:07 Josh Heupel25:08-27:43 Bill Belichick27:44-30:06 Mike Norvell30:07-31:56 Billy Napier31:57-37:17 Luke Fickell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	I want to be abundantly clear. This is not a hot seat show. This is a pressure index show.
0:36.5	So at this point, the fan base right now, just trying to be
0:38.5	patient with Kalin DeBoer. There's this moment in the schedule where it's like, if they were to lose
0:43.2	this game, everything changes. And maybe the patient wears out. If Penn State loses that game,
0:48.7	all anyone is going to be talking about is that James Franklin can't win these games. We went way outside
0:53.8	of the box, and we hired the goat.
0:56.1	The greatest NFL coach may be in history.
0:57.9	So we're just happy he's here.
0:59.4	College football has never been better.
1:00.8	Interest has never been higher.
1:02.2	Believe that we are at the dawn of the golden age of college football.
1:10.6	Hey, welcome into the program, everybody. This is the Joel Clat show. I am Joel
1:14.5	Clad, and this show, as always, is brought to you by Hampton by Hilton. We thank them for their support
1:20.0	as always. Welcome into the show. Our off-season content continues to roll along here one week
1:27.0	closer to the college football season, which we can't wait for.
1:30.6	I cannot wait for college football.
1:32.0	I know you can't wait for college football.
1:34.8	But here's what I wanted to do today.
1:37.3	I wanted to take a look at a few coaches throughout the country and kind of gauge where the pressure meter is with them, what the fan
1:44.6	bases are thinking of them. This is not a hot seat type of a take type of deal. This is just like,
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