2013 College Football Coaching Carousel thread...

Met Brian Wright when was OC at Montana State before he went to FAU. Good guy, very smart guy. Revolutionized their offense. Definite head coach material somewhere.

 

LA Daily News' Scott Wolf:

https://twitter.com/InsideUSC/status/407627604644999168

 

He must be REALLY pissed.

This is like the guy who sits in his car posting on Facebook after bad shit happens. He needs the 24-hour rule.

 

I am surprised we haven't seen more coaching changes today - tells me that some schools are beaten down from spending so much money on buyouts and are trying to show some patience.

It also tells me that there aren't a lot of great candidates out there to hire.

But you have to believe that the guys at WVU, Uva, Md, Ga Tech, Nebraska, USF, Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, Miss State, Florida, Utah and Cal are all going to be on an extremely hot seat, correct?

 

Orgeron is a former Miami assistant coach and has all kinds of recruiting ties in south Florida. The way he recruits, he could own Conference USA pretty quickly and parlay that into another BCS conference job in a few years.

 

Understand the hurt … no sarcasm. Edsall is a disingenuous sack of crap.

My question … did James Franklin say "no" to N.C. State only because he didn't want to make it look like he and Debbie Yow had this sort of in, or is Franklin serious about making Vanderbilt a perennial threat?

Here's the thing … years ago, we all saw any coach in that situation taking the first deal offered. But Stanford is winning in the Big 12. Pat Fitzgerald is no doormat at Northwestern. David Cutcliffe just got Duke to 10 wins. Kinda knocking the down the barriers that the schools with stricter academic standards can't play with the big boys, eh?

 

That type of school, yes... Not that they're making a coaching change, but Petrino would be perfect at a place like Mississippi State.

 

West Virginia: Possibly
UVa: Craig Littlepage said around midseason that Mike London and his staff would be back for 2014. But I'd think the heat is on. Cavs were a young team in 2013, and they should be a year older and wiser.
Maryland: Randy Edsall is … well, not much of a human being. Thing is, Kevin Anderson might be riding Edsall since he fired the then-reigning ACC Coach of the Year to make Edsall happen.
Georgia Tech: Paul Johnson in trouble? Not buying it at all.
Nebraska: Eichorst seems to tolerate Bo Pelini … wonder how much that is because Lincoln has to come up with more than $7 million to make him go away.
USF: Just fired Skip Holtz a year ago. Can't see them making another move this quickly.
Purdue: See above. Just hired Darrell Hazell a year ago. Same with Cal, which just got rid of Jeff Tedford a year ago.
Florida: Jeremy Foley seems to be going with Muschamp. Surely the OC and O-line coach getting canned were discussed in the rest staying ...

 

Let's be honest - Stanford is not Duke, Northwestern, Wake Forest or Vanderbilt.

So what is going on there does not apply. That is one of the absolute best institutions in the country and is almost always ranked as one of the best student-athlete experiences in the country. So yeah, you can win there and sustain it.

Duke under Cutcliffe is a lot like Grobe at Wake -- they were able to have their "big year" at a time when the rest of their side of the ACC was dogshit.

Once Miami gets rolling, once Va Tech gets some shit on offense worked out -- Duke will be back to battling for mediocrity. I mean, you act like what Duke has done this year is some sort of trend -- how many years in a row have they been to a bowl game now?

And Northwestern and Vanderbilt are struggling to maintain a level just above mediocrity - and if Vanderbilt couldn't win SEC East last few years when Florida, USC, Georgia and Tenn have had issues and thus it wasn't nearly as deep as it can be, Vandy will never win it

 

Question on Orgeron. I've seen that he has "resigned" and won't coach the bowl game. Now he's applying at FAU.

Doesn't he have an agent to keep all of this on a backchannel level?

 

The biggest difference between Stanford and Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, etc., is that it's in California.

That means, percentage-wise, you have an opportunity to recruit that many more great athletes who happen to have the grades and test scores to get into Stanford.