South Carolina bids you adieu, Will Muschamp, and wishes for a long and prosperous career, but also don’t let the door hit you on the way to the bank.

It took 8 weeks and a Heisman performance to do so, but the SEC coaching carousel has started. If fans cut the checks, a coach would probably be fired every week, but instead, they’re relegated to airing their grievances on Twitter and behind an avatar on team message boards.

Some teams have their coaches for the next decade, while others could be ready to pull the plug before the calendar changes to 2021. Here’s how every SEC fan base should feel about its head coach entering Week 9:

Alabama

Not to feed Nick Saban any rat poison, but is there really any debate as to who wears the coaching crown in college football?  The real question should be whether there’s room in the Nick Saban Coach Rehabilitation Center for a new addition from Columbia?

Arkansas

No Sam Pittman … and Arkansas suffers its worst loss of the season. Could this be more than a mere coincidence? Noossssir! That’s a correlation. That or Kyle Trask is OK at football. The fact that Razorback fans are disappointed with their team’s loss to Florida speaks to how far this program has come, as does swinging the line 45 points from the spread against LSU last season to now. So long late-November apathy in Fayetteville!

Auburn

Congratulations to Gus Malzahn on being the final win of Will Muschamp’s South Carolina career. Malzahn knows all too well how much the hot seat burns, but he could only do so much. It’s safe to say Malzahn and Co. have saved their job for at least another season with their last 2 performances, unless of course the Tigers go out and lose to a hapless Tennessee team. It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving in the Malzahn household without at least a little umemployment paranoia.

Florida

Quarterbacks have a certain way of making coaches look like absolute geniuses. Dan Mullen may have to gainfully employ a PR team to manage his off-the-field conduct, but there’s no questioning what he’s done on the field in 3 short years getting the Gators over the Georgia hump. And if any of his players ever find themselves with their backs against the wall in a fight, there’s no better hype man.

Georgia

The other side of that same coin with Trask and Mullen is Kirby and his QBs. Quarterbacks have a certain way of making coaches look like they have no idea what they’re doing. Smart one day might get the Bulldogs to the top of the SEC to stay, but not until he has the quarterback to do so. It was nice to see Smart reach out to a Georgia running back and tell them how to not single-handedly sabotage an NFL team this year. Cheers to Nick Chubb and all the Browns’ bettors.

Kentucky

Not the best of years for Mark Stoops, but also not enough to erase the remarkable progress he’s made with the program. No matter the awful scene likely to unfold in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, John Calipari is but days from erasing any tinge of animosity Wildcats fans may have about their football team this season.

LSU

Not only does Coach O create jobs at Baton Rouge news stations for a closed caption writer, but regardless of how 2020 plays out, there’s too much goodwill built up from 2019 to insinuate a coaching change. (Unless there is massive fallout from a damning USA Today report.) It may be “One team, one heartbeat,” but Orgeron is going to have to throw one of his assistants to the wolves.

Mississippi State

Coaches are almost never fired in Year 1, but Mike Leach might be making a case. Between Georgia having the top run defense in the league and Leach fuming from watching a new balanced offense in Pullman, Hail State fans may want to avert their eyes from the screen as Leach continues to bang his head against a brick wall and exclusively calls pass plays this weekend.

Mizzou

This is either the best time or the worst time for the Tigers to play South Carolina. At least Eli Drinkwitz won’t have to play against a coach having a mid-game mental meltdown in consecutive games. Depending on whether the Georgia game is rescheduled, there’s a real shot Missouri wins out the rest of the season and finishes 6-3. Not too shabby for Drinkwitz in Year 1.

Ole Miss

Lane Kiffin is truly a rocket scientist. From offensive scheming to launching play sheets into outer space and sending Will Muschamp out of SEC orbit, he is truly even more “unique” than Elon Musk. Retweeting clips of his sideline shenanigans before he even makes it to the postgame podium is just icing on the cake. One can only imagine what he will do with his newfound idle time this weekend … The Rebels have a real keeper.

South Carolina

The slow play by Mike Bobo to bring his own QB from Colorado State and get Will Muschamp fired in order to become an SEC head coach is true brilliance. It’s now going to be a surreal wake-up call for Gamecocks fans as they see what 4th-option coaching candidate they settle on after the best candidates pick other openings.

Tennessee

Hard to buy out a coach when most of his assistants refuse to accept a paycut during a global pandemic. Heady play by Jeremy Pruitt. It’s disappointing from every other fan bases’ perspective because a Tennessee coaching search is kind of like a car wreck — you can’t help but look.

Texas A&M

Jimbo Fisher has finally done in Year 3 what he was probably expected to do in Year 2. Scheduling limitations will likely prevent a legitimate Playoff run, but if Fisher can convince Kellen Mond to come back for his 10th season, they might be right in the thick of things again in 2021.

Vanderbilt

Would any Vanderbilt coach of the last 10 years get a win this season? It’s hard to be too mad at Derek Mason for how 2020 has played out given a lack of available players, but finishing last or second-to-last of the SEC East in 5 of 7 seasons is a fireable offense. Not being the first coach fired is grounds for celebration.