2013 College Football Coaching Carousel thread...

This. Franklin will have interest if he wants to leave Vanderbilt. Vandy will be going to a bowl this month.

 

It's not the same as a buyout. I covered a coach who had a clause in his contract where there was a time period where he was free to entertain job offers each year. I think it was for two weeks from the day after the last game of the season. It was a strange one.

 

I don't know. Vandy chance of winning in the SEC is slim to none. Chances of
a good Maryland team winning in The ACC are pretty good.

That said, Franklin has done a fantastic job at Vandy.

 

Lot of truth to that.

 

I didn't, but I had asked someone who works in Winston-Salem about this on Thursday. She didn't see Ron Wellman messing with Grobe. Neither did I.

Thing is, Bzdelik and Wellman are friends, which is the only reason other than a long-term contract with a crazy buyout that the former still has the gig.

His gentlemanly manner will be missed, and those who follow Wake Forest shouldn't ever forget the season that ended with a berth in the Orange Bowl. The epitome of class.

 

A few years, I would think. He's probably still considered toxic most places after the way things went down, first with the Falcons and then at Arkansas.

OTOH, I'm sure he'll bolt as soon as he's caught doing something immoral or illegal, which could be about any day.

 

There was something in the C-J that speculated that he could be a candidate for the Texas or USC jobs or A&M if Sumlin left. The beat writer must be a moron.

 

Petrino's next job at a school in a BCS conference will be similar to what happened with Mike Leach at Washington State. He's probably too toxic to get a top job, but a lower level school in a big conference could do a lot worse.

 

Like Wake? Or Maryland?

 

If I'm FAU, I think I'd keep the interim guy, Brian Wright. I interviewed him when they beat Southern Miss like a drum, and he seemed like a good guy who had his head on straight. From everyone I talked to from that program, he seemed like a breath of fresh air after the Lesser Pelini.

He stepped into a flaming mess and got them bowl-eligible with four straight wins (admittedly against cupcake competition), and the kids seemed to play hard for him. Can't see that Brohm is that big an upgrade.

 

Texas wouldn't touch him.

But then UT fans think they're going to hire Nick Saban or Gus Malzahn.

 

Perhaps. Just not THIS year. Like we talked about last winter, it's a question of whether a school is willing to roll that dice that he'll behave and not do something to embarrass them, what the school's other options are, how much they are willing to spend and whether they believe the risk/reward is worth it.

I wonder, given the conference alignments and TV deals, how much money difference is there between (1) going to a BCS bowl, (2) going to a minor bowl or (3) having a losing season? I thought the bowl and TV money was pretty evenly divided within the conferences.

I'm not sure how big of a priority becoming a football powerhouse is at certain schools. It's like wanting a job or getting married. You might want it, but how much are you willing to give up to obtain it? I'm not sure Wake, Maryland, Virginia, Colorado or a dozen other schools is going to break the bank to go 9-3 instead of 3-9.