2022-23 college football coaching carousel

From Arkanpig to Sin City.
https://mwwire.com/2022/12/06/unlv-hired-arkansas-dc-barry-odom-as-new-head-coach/

 

The receiver, Dante Cephas, picked up offers from Georgia and Penn State within 24 hours of entering the portal.
One of the linemen has offers from NC State and Maryland.

 

Weird - Arroyo seemed to have UNLV going in the right direction - 0-6, 2-10, 5-7 - he wanted an extension and didn't get one? Something else going on there?

 

Seriously, good for them. The MAC has some skill players, because the offenses are wide-open, and every time the players introduce themselves on SNF it seems there's a lineman from the MAC too.

But 12 from Kent State? I think about 6-7 of the rest will end up at Denison or Mt. Union.

 

When there’s a chance to get Barry Odom, you jump on it.

 

Alabama apparently has 12 scholarship players in the portal. Do these people not know about that program's propensity for developing players into NFL guys? Or is Saban running them all off?
I believe ATM is the leader at this point with 19 scholarship recipients in the debutante ball. Although nobody seems to know how many players a program can still have on scholarship because COVID is the gift that keeps on giving, that probably represents one of every five scholarship players.

 

Alabama has a history of guys waiting their chance to shine because there was an NFL talent ahead of them. And then they shine when they take the stage.

 

Of the 9 latest, 6 of them are juniors / seniors. Is it possible that if they haven't seen the field by now and know they have been passed over by younger guys on the depth chart, it's their best chance to go somewhere with a couple years eligibility?

It's not like there's seven freshmen in the

A&M has three true freshmen and five redshirt freshman, along with three redshirt sophomores in the portal. That's a major red flag.

 

Alabama’s biggest exodus is at wideout and along the O line. If you couldn’t break through at one of those sad sack positions this year, fetch was not going to happen.

 

Prior to Deion, has there ever been an HBCU coach hired to lead a DI program?

 

Jay Hopson (Alcorn to SoMiss) is the only one I can think of, but Hopson is a white guy.

 

I read there was one white coach hired out of an HBCU school but never a black coach. As a graduate of Colorado I have mixed emotions about hiring Deion. But I hope Deion does open the doors for other HBCU coaches, administrators and officials to be able to oe to more lucrative jobs rather than being confined to those schools.