2013 College Football Coaching Carousel thread...

I think Art Briles would be a good fit at USC.

 

Yeah, I agree. I don't know that USC is a better job than Texas A&M. There are a lot of potentially good jobs out there.

I doubt David Shaw will leave THIS YEAR, unless something is the absolute perfect fit. When he stepped in for Harbaugh at Stanford, most of the hard work of rebuilding had been done. So he got a team that was prepared to win right away. Would you give that up to go rebuild somewhere else for a few extra dollars? As someone else noted, there are a lot of pluses to the Stanford position.

 

I think Stanford can be almost as good as an NFL job and it certainly has attracted the level of coaches who found high to decent NFL success (Harbaugh, Bill Walsh, Denny Green).

With Stanford, you can actually coach a team and you have minimal babysitting. You don't have to go into the Dirty South and beg illiterate 17-year-olds to play for you. You don't have to deal with a bunch of haughty car dealer booster types.

Win eight games. Make a run at the Pac 12 every few years. Graduate players. Everyone is happy.

Sure, some college jobs would have a higher national championship ceiling than Stanford. USC, Texas, Florida State, Alabama. Yet all of them come with a fair amount of "groveling" for players. Stanford football doesn't have to do that -- it's a school that should only have to fight off Northwestern and Vanderbilt for the smartest kids who can play Big Boy ball.

Why leave that unless it's for an NFL job with one of the best ownership groups in the league?

 

It's also in California, which means that just based on population and the quality of in-state high school football, you've got a better chance than Duke, Northwestern, et al., to recruit smart kids who can actually play.

 

I see that Michigan-Northwestern is on the Big Ten Network. It doesn't even merit the "Pam Ward Memorial Game" on ESPN7. This mean Hoke is in trouble?

 

Yeah, but Briles signed a 10-year extension this week that supposedly moved him from the 34th-highest paying job to somewhere in the top 10. If USA Today's numbers are correct, he got a raise from $2.4 million to at least $3.7 million, and word is his assistants were given hefty raises as well.

 

When SC says they are willing to pony up $6 mil for a coach that pretty much tells Ed O that while they appreciate his effort, they're looking elsewhere. Ed should land a good job somewhere though.

 

Which is bullshit because if Lame was coaching tonight they'd be down 28-0 by now.

 

Who is doing the play calling of USC these days?

 

This is the danger of the whole interim coach thing.

 

First-year offensive coordinator Clay Helton

 

I don't think it'll quite be a Romeo Crennel situation for USC when ruining the Packers' perfect regular season landed him the full-time Chiefs' gig - at least until they went 2-14.

That 3-21 mark in the SEC for Orgeron is hard, HARD to ignore. No matter how solid of a coaching job or how much of a spark, a record like that still is tough to sweep under. I think the same thing of Jim Caldwell going 26-63 (12-52 in the ACC) at Wake Forest. Even with the early success at Indy, it was like Ed Rooney saying "NINE...times" and that floating through Jeanne Bueller's head.