2019-20 college football coaching carousel

Saban will certainly have a lot of influence concerning who his successor is. I don't see the Alabama trustees bringing in a guy who left the Alabama program in less than friendly circumstances.

 

I hear that Ole Miss is also putting together a package for Kiffin. If two SEC teams get in a bidding war for him, there's no way in hell he returns to FAU. Jimmy Sexton is in hog heaven.

I also saw an article indicating that James Franklin is likely to get a contract adjustment.

I'd be really entertained by this year's carousel if Bill Clark wasn't on so many lists.

 

My understanding was that Saban thought Kiffin was spending too much time and effort on building his FAU staff and ran him off. The UA BoT is about as transparent as a steel I beam, but I have to figure that their first call would be to Dabo. There was a time that I thought he'd come running, but I have come to doubt that. Perhaps he'd go to Tuscaloosa after Saban's replacement gets run off, but I think he's too smart to be the guy who follows Nick.

 

That would be the sort of legitimacy they crave and do not deserve. The cradle of Trumpism should be marginalized forever. But sadly, you're probably right. A lot of Trumpist states represented in that league.

 

Not a particularly long extension, I presume. I also presume that any extension suggests he has gotten zero interest from others.

 

I have nothing against Mizzou, but this is the kind of thing that makes me wish for Anderson to get a HC job at another P5 school and become wildly successful just to make UM look stupid.

 

Serious question here: I'm guessing it has happened before somewhere, but is the first time any president/chancellor or AD has been publicly rebuked by a governing board over a recommendation for a coaching hire? These things are always rubber-stamped. Not a good look for a board to weigh in on a football coach hire. But if anybody wondered if Mizzou fit in the SEC, this should quell that noise.

 

Mizzou has problems up and down. Stay away.

 

Maybe Missouri tries to get in on the Lane Train too. Kiffin might have his pick of the second-tier SEC litter.

 

Mizzou will make a safe, conventional hire. And continue to wallow in mediocrity.

If they ever want to be relevant more than once or twice a decade, Tiggers need to take a big swing and hope to hit a home run. Otherwise, what’s the point?

 

Everybody thinks his team can get a big name hire. The truth is that there just aren't that many big-name hires out there.
If things work according to expectations in the conference championship games, all four playoff teams will be coached by people promoted off the staff. Ed Orgeron, Ryan Day, Dabo Swinney and Lincoln Riley were all internal promotions.

 

Kyle Whittingham at Utah was, as well.
And it's also worth noting that Orgeron and Swinney have had to weather some storms because they didn't win early enough in their tenures. Not sure about Whittingham, but Utah stuck with him through a few down years. Maybe there's something to be said for sticking with a coach once in a while.