2019-20 college football coaching carousel

Coach Goes.

Bobo out at CSU. Always thought he'd be an HC in the SEC by now. I'm guessing he did to.

https://www.si.com/college/2019/12/...3HLzTopYx4m0ATrXUqVQSKQ2pz_2ugATIdULw03qm3Fwc

Found the "interest" of Rolovich in the CSU job interesting. I'm guessing he is expecting (and really should be getting) an extension and raise for bringing Hawaii football back.

 

So confusing. One of the Mavens told us that Helton was out.

 

The Maven guy is the middle of that lineup above.

 

I was looking at the list of Alabama assistants. Didn't realize Saban had turned over almost his entire staff in the last two years. I think the key for the Arkansas, Ole Miss or Missouri jobs is to bring in a coach with something unique to offer - maybe its Leach, maybe its a coach known for letting his players grow their hair out, have fun on social media whateve, maybe a black coach, whatever.
Surprised to find that the Pac-12 now has 5 of the 11 black coaches in FBS and 5 of 9 among Power 5 conferences (Locksley, Babers, Franklin, Mason being the others), the other two Norvell at Nevada and Hammock at NIU.

 

SI Maven guy apologizes:

Why I Was Wrong on the Clay Helton Story

Adam MayaDec 4, 2019

An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated Clay Helton would be dismissed by USC. Below is a retraction from the author.

I was wrong, and I am sorry.

Those seven words cannot exonerate me from the mistake I made this week -- incorrectly reporting Clay Helton would be fired -- but I felt they were the first that belonged in this statement.

I know many are wondering how I came to write my initial story Sunday that Helton would be dismissed. If you’ve followed my work, you know it’s a situation I’ve been tracking the entire season. Fast forward to this past weekend and I was told by multiple sources that USC had decided to make a coaching change. These same sources had alerted me to three developments in the past -- athletic director Mike Bohn’s hiring, Bru McCoy’s transfer back to USC, and Graham Harrell becoming the offensive coordinator.

I’m not going to out my sources -- this is my sword to fall on -- but essentially there was a misunderstanding on their end as it pertained to Helton’s status. They confused certain actions by Bohn and their superiors at USC, particularly in the previous week or so, to mean Helton was definitely being fired, when in actuality keeping him was still under consideration.
As a result, a coaching change was inaccurately characterized to me as being a formality rather than, as was later explained to me, conditional. If I had known the latter, I would not have filed my report in such terms. Given my sources’ track record, I had no reason to think their intel in this instance was incomplete. I fully believed in what I reported, which is why I was so definitive. Alas, I made a major error that assuredly caused great pain to a coach I couldn't respect more as a person, and his family.

I deeply regret not being much more thorough and careful, especially because of how sensitive this news was -- at my alma mater, no less.

Again, I feel great remorse over my story, and thus have apologized to Helton and USC, as well as Sports Illustrated. I want to apologize to you, the readers, as well. Thank you to the many who have expressed your support. At the end of the day, I want to be clear that my intentions as a journalist were pure -- my ultimate drive is to simply provide for my family. Meanwhile, my professional objectives remain the same: to cover USC accurately and with integrity, and to the best of my ability.

I inexcusably missed the mark here.

 

While the author expresses remorse, he essentially admits he was relying on interpretation rather than anything remotely resembling a direct statement from the sources he tosses under the bus.
He also fails to explain why it took him three days to offer this mea culpa.
He compounds the problem by playing the "feed my family" card.

 

Ah. The age of first, not right.

 

Noble to own up to it. But he cut out the most important part: "I resign."

No matter how much of a joke the Maven or isn't, he has to go after that. Zero credibility remains.

 

All three sources had the same misinterpretation? Weird.

 

"Leave the laptop, will ya George?"