Big Cat's Coach Duggs rebuild is cratering in the MAC
TLDR: Big Cat's fictional Kent State coaching run in EA Sports College Football keeps generating razzing from PardonMyTake as Duggs' record sits at 2-12 with the coaching staff falling apart on stream.
Big Cat's Coach Duggs dynasty has been a Pardon My Take fixture for a few different editions of the EA Sports College Football series now, and every year it somehow finds a new way to go sideways. This time it started with a UNC job that fell apart in real time on stream, and it has only gotten worse since Duggs packed up for a fresh start.
The UNC chapter died fast. Losses piled up, Big Cat watched a defensive collapse he couldn't explain, and by the second week he was already talking about blowing the whole thing up rather than trying to coach his way out of it. "We're finding a new team," he said, framing it as Duggs getting a new job and starting over somewhere with lower expectations.
Back where we belong. In the MAC t.co/w4VIClVS5M
Kent State made sense on paper as a soft landing. It's the kind of MAC job where a coach can pad a resume with easy wins, and Big Cat leaned into that immediately, building out a custom schedule loaded with lighter opponents to try to stabilize the program before asking for anything ambitious.
Big Cat isn’t above scheduling some cupcakes. @EASPORTSCollege #cfb27
It did not work. Even with a softened slate, the Golden Flashes have been getting run off the field, and Pardon My Take has turned the whole saga into a running bit at Big Cat's expense. The record now sits at 2-12, and according to the show's own accounting, the coaching staff is falling apart right along with the win column.
NIL era is too much for Duggs Record: 2-12 and the coaching staff is falling apart @EASPORTSCollege #CFB27
The pile-on has a specific angle to it, too: the joke isn't just that Kent State is bad, it's that Duggs supposedly downgraded on purpose. Leaving a power-conference job at UNC for a MAC rebuild was framed from the jump as an escape hatch, and now it's being replayed as a guy who traded one bad situation for a worse one with thinner talent.
Duggs left UNC for a worse job with worse players @EASPORTSCollege #CFB27
The Coach Duggs bit has survived multiple versions of the game because it's genuinely funny when it's going well and even funnier when it isn't, and this stretch is squarely in the latter category. Whether Big Cat can dig Kent State out of a 2-12 hole or just torches this save for another fresh start is the only real cliffhanger left, and given the track record, nobody should bet on patience winning out.