Scott Satterfield and Cincinnati football need to part ways
By Caleb Hall
Satterfield and Cincinnati football need to separate before it gets worse
Scott Satterfield left the Louisville Cardinals last offseason to go north to the Cincinnati Bearcats, and it hasn’t worked out well for him. The Bearcats stand at 2-5 and are currently on a 5-game losing streak after starting 2-0. Louisville is also prospering quite well under new head coach Jeff Brohm, as they are 6-1 with a top-10 win over Notre Dame.
In the Bearcat’s last 7 games, they won/lost to these scores:
EKU: 66-13 Win
Pitt: 27-21 Win
Miami of Ohio: 31-24 Loss
Oklahoma: 20-6 Loss
BYU: 35-27 Loss
Iowa State: 30-10 Loss
Baylor: 32-29 Loss
They seem to make the mistakes that Satterfield’s Louisville teams also made. They give up big plays on defense, give up leads late in games, and the offense seems to run stale at the most inopportune times.
Even in games they won like the Pitt game, that seemed impressive at the time, but since then Pitt has gone 1-4. Cinci doesn’t have a good win and their losses are not to any necessarily good teams either. Cincinnati football has lost to now 3-4 Baylor, and their “best loss” is to a top-10-ranked Oklahoma team.
Satterfield is not leading the Bearcats in the right direction, and it would be in the best interest of both sides to go their separate ways. Satterfield is bringing the program down from the high standards they were held to in the past few years. The Bearcats made the CFB playoff and had 9+ win seasons with Luke Ficel as head coach.
Even at Louisville, he wasn’t cut out for the big games and higher echelon talent and coaching of the ACC. At Cincinnati, he is proving he really isn’t cut out to be a Power 5 coach in college football.
If Satterfield can’t make a bowl game he is most likely out at Cincinnati, or at least he should be. Cincinnati sees where this is headed for the Bearcats, and Satterfield isn’t cut out for the standards that the Bearcat’s want to hold themselves under. Especially as new members of the BIG 12.
Scott Satterfield should have stayed at Appalachian State to save himself the misery of what Cincinnati would eventually do if he doesn’t clean up his act.