2022-23 college football coaching carousel

North Texas just dismissed its head coach, two days after playing the conference title game and hours after its bowl bid

 

They’ve been looking to move off Littrell for a while. It’s been kind of puzzling.

 

He was kind of the poor man’s Chan Gailey. Could never break out of the 6-7 win range or win a bowl.

 

So the reason to rag on Prime Coach (but not, uh like Brian Kelly, Saban (LSU time), Petrino, everyone else in history) is "what about the kids?" Sure, this is the FIRST TIME you've ever wondered about the kids. So tired of this and I'm not even a big PrimeTime fan.

 

All three of those guys got sandblasted on here when changing jobs (and for other mishaps along the way.)

 

CU obtaining a decent buyout clause would require a degree of shrewdness that Rick George has utterly lacked in his tenure as AD. Hiring Karl Dorrell was really, really dumb. Giving Karl Dorrell about 17 million over five years is an all-timer in the annals of stupidity.

 

But he won at UCLA!

 

The big difference with Deion — sorry, I refuse to call him "Coach Prime" unless he shows he can transform into a tractor trailer — is that a huge part of his gimmick at Jackson State was selling players and fans on the idea that he was doing this for more than just football. He invoked God and called it a higher calling, treating the job of elevating HBCUs like some sort of holy mission. He made it seem like he didn't need the money, since he was already wealthy and had so many irons in the fire from a business standpoint. I don't think he's mismanaged his money.
Basically, unlike other coaches who don't purport to be about much else besides putting a winning football team on the field, he made his entire reason for being at Jackson State about something bigger. People believed it. People bought in. People loved him for it, or at least appreciated him for it. He could have stayed there as long as he wanted. At this point in time, at least, he was in absolutely no danger of being fired.
It was a unique experiment and, crazy enough, it was working. There's no telling what even two more years at Jackson State could have done to transform the SWAC from a football oddity to a highly-regarded FCS league.

Then he left at literally the first opportunity that came around, and it doesn't appear to be for any reason other than money. On his way out the door he made it clear that one reason he was leaving was because you have to keep moving up the ladder, which went against everything he said he was about at Jackson State. He complained about the lack of resources at a cash-strapped school. He hinted at disagreements with the university's administration.
On top of that, you know he's going to loot the roster on his way out the door. All of those five-star guys he sold on the HBCU experience, and being able to get to the NFL from an HBCU, he's suddenly going to tell them they can't get to the NFL unless they go to a Power 5 program like Colorado.

He claimed to be something different. He had a chance to be something really unique and special at Jackson State.
In the end, he showed he's not different at all. He is what he'll probably end up being at Colorado — just another coach.

 

Darrell Dickey got shitcanned at ATM too, so it's synchronicity.

Another suburban Sunday morning.