College football coaches on the hot seat: Who’s feeling the heat ahead of this season? Boston 25 News [Video]

As one of the most anticipated college football seasons creeps around the corner, so too does a most unusual coaching hiring cycle. We are a couple months or, perhaps, a few weeks away from the last “silly season,” as it’s known, before college athletics moves into a revenue-sharing model with athletes.

The question looms: Will revenue sharing impact firing decisions and future coaching contracts?

In the last three hiring cycles, colleges agreed to pay out nearly $300 million to fired head coaches, setting a record last year with $132 million in buyout cash — more than half of that going to one man, Jimbo Fisher ($76 million).

Just think: In the new model, that $300 million tab could fund as many as 20 college football rosters for at least a year each.

If the House antitrust settlement is finalized, schools will be permitted next fall to distribute as much as …