It seems like everything in society is in turmoil. The Big 3 automakers, the financial industry, and many other related industries are all struggling. And so are both college football teams that I follow: Kansas State and Iowa State. Earlier this year, K-State suddenly fired its football coach and within a day of the season ending, announced the return of its former head coach. It was strange and surprising. Now, in the past couple of days, news reports indicate that ISU's head coach, Gene Chizik, has been hired away from ISU to be the head coach at Auburn. Chizik was only at ISU for 2 years, and his first two teams struggled, but every indication was that he was going to stay at ISU for several more years. The opening at a prestigious school where he formerly worked apparently was too great a lure for Coach Chizik. His sudden departure certainly leaves the ISU Athletic Department in a lurch.
While I should be in shock at all of these sudden coaching changes, given how much chaos has been happening lately in the world, not much surprises me, anymore. And since it's football, not life, I guess it's not that big a deal, anyway. It is, though, just another bit of turmoil in a tumultuous world.
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