DALLAS, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Mike Cavan's fourth straight losing season as football coach at Southern Methodist will be his last. SMU on Monday fired the 53-year-old Cavan, effective at the end of the season.
The Mustangs are 3-6 overall and 3-4 in the Western Athletic Conference and have games left with Rice and North Carolina. SMU defeated Tulsa (1-9) on Saturday.
Cavan is 21-33 in five seasons at SMU. The Mustangs were 6-5 in 1997, the school's lone winning season since returning from the NCAA death penalty in 1989. SMU followed with records of 5-7, 4-6 and 3-9.
Before coming to SMU, Cavan coached at East Tennessee State for five seasons, going 30-27 from 1992-96. He also posted a 37-22-2 record at Valdosta State from 1986 to 1991. Cavan was a quarterback at Georgia and was an assistant there from 1975 to 1985
