Norm Chow is no longer Hawaii's coach.
The school announced Sunday that Chow, 69, had been fired after the team lost 58-7 to Air Force on Saturday. The loss dropped Hawaii to 2-7 on the season (0-5 in the Mountain West) and the Rainbow Warriors have been outscored 199-68.
"I'd like to thank Coach Chow for his dedication to our football program for the past four years," Matlin said. "Ultimately, we feel this decision is in the best interest of the University and Athletics Department and we need to move in a different direction. Coach Chow should be commended for helping our football program achieve all-time highs in APR scores and graduation rates."
The school said Chris Naeole would be the interim coach. Naeole, the team's assistant head coach and offensive line coach, is a former NFL offensive lineman who played for 11 seasons professionally.
Chow became Hawaii's head coach in 2012 and is 10-36 in his Hawaii career. He was an assistant at BYU from 1975-1999 and served as the offensive coordinator at USC under Pete Carroll from 2001-2004. He was previously Utah's offensive coordinator before he was hired at Hawaii to replace June Jones.
With the announcement earlier Sunday that Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer would retire at the end of the season, there are now 10 head coach openings in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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