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College football head coaching firings have heated up this week, with three coaches getting the axe with just a couple of weeks remaining in the 2024 season. The wife of one of those head coaches it not at all happy with the school's decision. Don Brown had been the head coach at UMass since 2022, though this was his second stint with the program.
He was also the head coach at UMass from 2004-08. UMass was 2-8 this season after going 3-9 in 2023 and 1-11 in 2022. The school thought that it was time to make a change.
"I am extremely grateful to Coach Brown for returning to UMass three years ago to help us build back a program he once coached to a national title game," UMass athletics director Ryan Bamford said in a statement . "Don should have immense pride in the outstanding contributions he has made to advance Massachusetts Football during his three stops in Amherst. Upon his return in 2021, we shared a common goal to help UMass football attain conference membership, something that was realized last spring.
Largely due to his renowned coaching reputation, Don legitimized our FBS program and Massachusetts football has taken positive steps forward since his return. We are structurally positioned to accomplish our competitive goals as we move into a new league and a new college athletics landscape in 2025." While the school is thanking Brown for his job, his wife is outraged on social media.
Don Brown's wife has been taking to social media, reposting messages of support for her husband, along with ones that criticize the school for its decision. She also made sure to point out that UMass is facing significant NIL disadvantages, compared to rival schools. "The combination of NIL money of the teams UMass played this season is a combined $48,798,653 million dollars to our $36,000.
And we played how many teams so close?!" she asked on social media . It’s pretty clear that athletics is not a priority for this administration. No serious school would allow an AD to pick his 3rd HC and 4th basketball coach with literally ZERO to show for it.
Not a single one https://t.co/I3lwpLwoMq Brown went 13-2 at UMass in 2006, along with an impressive 10-3 campaign in 2007. He won back-to-back conference titles in those two years.
But his return to the program in 2022 wasn't nearly as successful. While UMass decided to move on, Brown's family appears to be quite upset..
