Two firings on Monday stunned the football community.

The college football world has experienced an unexpected Black Monday.On Monday afternoon, we witnessed a few of unexpected firings of Group of Five head coaches.

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The first, from UNLV, was really breathtaking. Despite increasing his victory total every year, the Rebels sacked head coach Marcus Arroyo.UNLV was this year's bowl

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contender because to Arroyo. The Rebels can play in a bowl game but are allegedly planning to decline the invitation.As late as Sunday, Arroyo, who took over the program

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during the COVID year in 2020, was receiving some support for conference coach of the year.Michael Daly contended that Marcus Arroyo, the head coach of UNLV, deserved to earn the

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Mountain West Coach of the Year award in 2022."Marcus Arroyo improved UNLV every year he was there and, in his third season, the team was one victory away from a bowl game.

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a team that has since 1988 posted four winning seasons.Being aware that one of Arroyo's years was a COVID year is, in my opinion, a bitter pill to swallow.

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rapid fire, "said Matt Prehm.Tim Lester, the head coach of Western Michigan, was sacked on Monday. The head coach was fired despite having a winning record over the

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course of six seasons.The outside world is challenging.It will be intriguing to see if the future head coach of these two teams can improve their performances.

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