BOWLING GREEN — It is easy to hire one of your best friends as your second-in-command.
Firing him?
“One of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do in my life,” Bowling Green football coach Mike Jinks said the other day.
But dire times demand unpleasant measures, and Jinks, to his credit, recognized as much. If he is going down, he will go down fighting.
After presiding over the worst two-year stretch in Falcons history, he canned the Baghdad Bob routine — “Our team, our fan base, they don’t deserve for me to sit back and say, ‘Hey, it will be OK,’ ” he said — and made the bet of his career.