2024-25 CFB coaching carousel

Was Colin an SJ member? I know he was a frequent topic.

 

Fun picks up on page 3.

Not a good start to Dana Holgorsen era at WVU

 

Damn, think I read that back when it all first went down, but had forgotten it.

Some good shit on there.

 

That time was such a fog for me. I'd been let go from my gig a few weeks after Stewart so a lot of stuff I paid attention to but didn't really absorb.

Dunlap went on to work at that same station in morning drive for a few years and is now on the company's AM dial MAGA talk station. He's been a lightning rod here and I haven't always been his biggest booster, but the guy made a name for himself in that market, for better or for worse.

 

Hit the road, Mack ...
Football Coach Mack Brown Will Not Return After 2024 Season - University of North Carolina Athletics

 

Feels as if he did a bad job of reading the tea leaves. Could have resigned and saved himself the hassle of getting fired, but he probably made some money by making them fire him.

 

His time to bow out gracefully was after James Madison lit his team up for 70 points.

 

I think he did offer to quit but they would not accept his resignation.

 

I wish he would've retired on his own terms, but it needed to happen and I think he mis-read the moment. He remains beloved by a lot of alumni, and I think most of us would've gone along with one more season, which I think contributes to his mis-reading the moment.

I was texting with a fellow early 2000s alum about it earlier today and his view was Brown should've been given a pass for this year due to the effect of Tylee Craft's death on the team. Part of me agrees, but then last year the excuse was Tez Walker's eligibility problems and throughout his second tenure they never had a competent D, and the Drake Maye years had not much to show for them, as did the Sam Howell years before them, and they had no decent QB1s this year and only one solid prospect in the recruiting pipeline (who probably re-opens his recruiting today). It feels like even if you give him a pass for this year because of Craft and/or sentimentality because he's done so much for football at UNC, that the wheels are coming off and the time is right.

 

Has any long-time coach ever retired at the right time? They all seem to think they are bulletproof and hang around several years too long, like Beamer, Paterno, Snyder, some others I'm probably forgetting. Maybe Solich got out at Ohio before they started slipping, I can't remember.

 

Great example right now. Nick Saban.

 

Bo Schembechler seemed to go out on his own terms, off a couple of Rose Bowl trips. Gary Pinkel's resignation at Mizzou seemed to be a pretty big surprise, and he seemed to still be in a good spot, but wasn't there health issues at play?

But yeah, Micro, the ones you mentioned, plus Woody Hayes, Hayden Fry are the two that come to my mind right away.