2022-23 college football coaching carousel

I think Colorado is right to go the FCS route and Deion could be very interesting there.

But Montana State's Brent Vigen would be my pick. His resume is super strong. He was under Kleiman at North Dakota State, then he went to Wyoming and was the QB coach/OC when they had Josh Allen. He's won 23 games in two seasons with the Bobcats.

That being said I can absolutely understand taking Deion. That's going to be quite the roster of coaches in the Pac-12.

 

Freeze in at Auburn per WWL

 

Didn’t realize Pitt’s administration from 2000 was in Vegas now. These dupes truly felt practicing next to the Steelers and playing in their stadium would sell itself, completely forgetting that the team had been nothing but average for the two decades before.

 

Never thought I would hear Deion Sanders mentioned as a candidate to be head football coach at Georgia Tech. Probably will be major pushback from alumni and faculty.

 

From before the hire was announced.

 

Pearl is a cheat and a narc.

I wonder if Deion could spell "institute" even after you spotted him the first seven letters. He's not a fit there, which means it could go disastrously or it could go wonderfully for a season or two then go disastrously.

 

I've mentioned this before, but Deion is selling Black pride and culture to top recruits to come to Jackson State — be a part of the unique HBCU experience, help lift up the culture, honor your heritage, etc. It's a good message, and it works. I think he can still do that in Atlanta, which is arguably the Black capital of the U.S. It's a lot harder in lily white Boulder. So recruiting-wise, he might be better off at Georgia Tech.

Either way, Deion is going to have to show that he can coach as well as he can recruit if he jumps to a P5.
His biggest asset at Jackson State has been his celebrity. It's helped him get recruits the other SWAC schools have no chance of getting, and has probably provided a bit of an intimidation factor when they play. Everything with him is a giant production, and he leans into it. Some opponents have clearly been star struck. It's really just been this year where you've seen a couple of opponents like Alabama State refusing to kiss his ass, and wanting to kick it instead. When he goes to a P5 he'll be just another former NFL player turned coach like half the guys in windbreakers on either sideline. The celebrity factor goes out the window.
He won't be able to win on talent alone, nor play against schools that are barely holding a program together. He'll have to show he's got some steak behind the sizzle or else it'll be a spectacular disaster.

 

I think your points are good.

I will add that a couple of coaches ago Colorado State paid about 1.5 million dollars a year to bring in Mile Bobo, who had been on staff at Georgia for years. Bobo's idea is that he could recruit kids from Georgia that were not being recruited by SEC schools or strong ACC programs and still have the talent to win. What he found out is that recruits did not want to go that far from home to Fort Collins and Bobo is back at UGA as an analyst.

The second problem with hiring Sanders is that if he does start to succeed he will be gone to an SEC school that can pay more.

 

Deion has also surrounded with pretty good assistants that can coach and have the freedom to coach. More than anything that's the secret to his success, black pride, allegeded lack of literacy and otherwise. He just managed to get a staff of good, experienced coaches young and old who know what the fuck they are doing.

 

I have no idea if he could do it or not, but as was hinted at by Batman, if Deion leaves Jackson State he will be weirdly enough lowering his national profile. There, he's a unicorn. Anywhere else, just another coach.