2013 College Football coaching carousel

That's true, but he was a world-class flop at Kansas, needing less than two years to completely reverse what good Mangino had done.

 

Mangino and Glen Mason are the only decent coaches Kansas has had in the last 30 years in football. Let's see how long Charlie Weis lasts.

 

The women were better at Pitt so Mike Gottfried hightailed it east.

 

Mangino was 13-12 in his last two seasons at Kansas and 50-48 overall (38-47 taking out the Orange Bowl season), hardly what I'd call spectacular.

Gill probably wouldn't have been great, and there were hideous losses mixed in there, but giving a guy two years in a college program is lame, especially when you're replacing him with Chuckles Weis.

 

I feel the same way about Cowher, in the sense that he's never coached a day of CFB in his life, never had to recruit high school kids. Why anyone thinks he'd take a college team is beyond me.

 

On the bright side for Tedford, while his program is falling apart on the field, it's also falling apart in the classroom!

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegesports/

APR and graduation rates of last five years:

2007-08: 53/45
2008-09: 64/57
2009-10: 65/62
2010-11: 54/52
2011-12: 48/47

That's the kind of thing that won't play at Cal. Their football players are dolts too, but they don't want anyone to know it. They're like Michigan that way.

 

Hey' I'm stylin'

 

Rumors abound that Tuberville will be going to Arkansas next year.

 

Which means Sonny Dykes will be prowling the sideline in Lubbock next season.

 

I would bet that 95 percent of Cal (or UCLA) football players are special admits, given how difficult it is to get into a UC school, especially Cal and UCLA.

 

Jon Gruden to be the next coach of the Tennessee Volunteers.

...so say members of Mrs. Jon Gruden's family, who live in East Tennessee. Gruden's been offered a Chinese menu of contracts, with varying lengths and buyouts, but all for a $5.5 million a year. At least, that's the scuttlebutt this morning among ex-UT players who know the Grudens.

 

Actually, that's the kind of thing that starts "mattering" when the football program underachieves.
Cal's in a tough spot though. They've got a lot invested in the stadium (they need a good football program), Tedford's contract is generous, but about right for the Bay Area and probably in the middle of the Pac-12 with the new TV deal. I wish there was someone obvious out there who Cal could justify spending $3 mil a year on (which is what the program needs to do if they let Tedford go).
You could hire a coach for less, maybe keep him for a year or two (or worse, have to get rid of him after three or four years) but what does that get you?