LA Sports News: Who Is On Coaching Hot Seat Now

In this edition of LA Sports News — what have you done for me lately?

I’m sorry to spoil it for you but this actually a trick question, if you listen to sports radio in Los Angeles, or if you prefer your sports new coming from the internet, then all the coaches seem to be on the hot seat.

It seems Los Angeles fans regardless of which sport they watch have joined their east coast brethern as strident, cynical, acerbic fans that are the norm on the back east.

We may not boo Santa like in Philly or drown in our beer at Sully’s in Boston, but LA fans are becoming ridiculously less patient with the way their teams are run on the field of play.

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Consider this past weekend in College Football as both Los Angeles biggest teams the UCLA Bruins and USC Troans both hosted teams.

The Trojans fans are ready to fire head coach Steve Sarkisian after USC blew an early 21-10 second quarter lead and got outscored 31-10 the rest of the way against a Stanford Cardinal offense that only scored a combined 37 points in their first two games.

If USC fans had their choice Sarkisian would have been fired from his job and perhaps into the Pacific after another upset loss in their third game of the season.

UCLA coach Jim Mora despite having lead UCLA to three straight 10 win seasons for the first ever, is constantly challenged because he has yet to win big games (i.e. against Stanford or Oregon).

On Saturday night with his freshman phenom QB Josh Rosen struggling Mora was in trouble as it looked like it would be a second straight year where a Utah school was about to spoil UCLA’s year.

Thankfully Mora was given  reprieve when his defense stood it’s ground and avoided a last second loss intercepting the BYU “Cardiac Cougars,” hoping to win a third straight last minute game.

Locally, in baseball, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly is either a great clubhouse guy who can manage huge egos, or an amateur game manager who should be fired daily.

Despite dealing with a roster that spends more time on the disabled list than they do on the field, Mattingly is on the cusp of leading the Dodgers to their unprecendeted third straight playoff appearance.

In spite of this Mattingly most believe will be fired if he can’t lead the Dodgers to at least a World Series appearnce.

It seems Mattingly must do this even though he has been saddled with bad bullpen (again!) and a team just 13-26 against likely teams going to the playoffs in the National League.

With the basketball and hockey seasons soon to start it is likely that coaches like Lakers coach Byron Scott may be a lame duck riding out the youth movement on the team until a better option comes along.

Anaheim Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau  may need to win a Stanley Cup if he wants to keep his job this despite winning the Pacific Division every year he’s been in charge.

Twenty years ago in Los Angeles, most coaches had great job security with the likes of Tommy Lasorda managing the Dodgers for 20 years, Terry Donahue leading the UCLA Football Bruins since the 70’s, and Coach John Robinson was leading the Trojans to another Rose Bowl in his second stint manning the LA Coliseum sideline.

But those days are no more.

These days the longest tenured coach/manager is Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia.

He’s been in charge since 2000, but since the aforementioned Mattingly took over in 2011 for Joe Torre the Lakers, Clippers, Kings, Ducks, UCLA Football/Basketball, USC Football/Basketball have all had coaching changes at least once and sometimes twice.

So it seems that fans impatience is echoed by those in charge to.

Ultimately fans want to see rings collected and parades started but it seems in Los Angeles the process no longer is tolerated and it has become a “what have you done for me lately,” type fandom making the most noise.