Paul Pasqualoni becomes only eighth AQ conference coach in BCS era fired after fewer than 30 games

Former Syracuse coach Paul Pasqualoni?s second turn in charge of a major-college football program didn?t last nearly as long as his first.

In fact, it is one of the shortest of the BCS era, which began in 1998.

Pasqualoni, who was fired Monday after compiling a 10-18 record in two-plus seasons at Connecticut, is only the 16th coach in an automatic qualifying conference to have a tenure of less than 30 games in the BCS era.

He is also only the eight coach to be fired in less than 30 games. Seven coaches with short tenures took other jobs, while Indiana?s Terry Hoeppner died from brain cancer in 2007 after leading the Hoosiers for just two years.

That leaves the 64-year-old Pasqualoni?s tenure in the same category as similarly failed second head coaching acts as Keith Gilbertson (Washington) and Walt Harris (Stanford).

Perhaps the most glaring inclusion in the recent Done-In-Less-Than-30 Club is former Boston College coach Jeff Jagodzinski, who was fired for interviewing with the New York Jets. There's also Mike Riley's first turn at Oregon State; he is now in his 11th season back in Corvallis.

It should be noted that this exercise includes only people who coached at least one game. That eliminates the likes of Mike Price (Alabama), George O?Leary (Notre Dame) and Mike Haywood (Pittsburgh), who all got themselves removed from their new jobs before starting a season.

It also factors out one-year interim coaches who took over in the spring or summer and never realistically had a chance to be long-term guy. That group includes Robbie Caldwell (Vanderbilt), Luke Fickell (Ohio State), John L. Smith (Arkansas) and Everett Withers (North Carolina).

Anyway, here is the company Pasqualoni now keeps after his time at UConn came to a close thanks to an 0-4 start this season:

SHORTEST COACHING TENURES IN AQ CONFERENCES SINCE THE CREATION OF THE BCS
Coach, School	Years	Games (W-L)	Reason
Todd Graham, Pittsburgh	2011	12 (6-6)	Arizona State
Lane Kiffin, Tennessee	2009	13 (7-6)	Southern California
Dave Roberts, Baylor	1997-98	22 (4-18)	Fired
Mike Riley, Oregon State	1997-98	22 (8-14)	San Diego Chargers
Guy Morriss, Kentucky	2001-02	23 (9-14)	Baylor
Keith Gilbertson, Washington	2003-04	23 (7-16)	Fired
Walt Harris, Stanford	2005-06	23 (6-17)	Fired
Terry Hoeppner, Indiana	2005-06	23 (9-14)	Died (brain cancer)
Gene Chizik, Iowa State	2007-08	24 (5-19)	Auburn
Turner Gill, Kansas	2010-11	24 (5-19)	Fired
Steve Addazio, Temple	2011-12	24 (13-11)	Boston College
Dennis Franchione, Alabama	2001-02	25 (17-8)	Texas A&M
Jon Embree, Colorado	2011-12	25 (4-21)	Fired
John Mackovic, Arizona	2001-03	28 (10-18)	Fired
Jeff Jagodzinski, Boston College	2007-08	28 (20-8)	Fired
Paul Pasqualoni, Connecticut	2011-13	28 (10-18)	Fired

Source: http://www.syracuse.com/patrick-stevens/2013/09/ex-syracuse_coach_paul_pasqual.html

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