2013 College Football coaching carousel

So we're down to Wisconsin and Texas Tech among BCS schools?

I don't read too much into the Badgers being quiet since I think there is a decent chance the next coach is in the NFL or that Alvarez will coach next season... I know he said otherwise, but it still would not stun me...

This thread is going to be getting really fun right around New Year's when Penn State and Oregon have openings... Oregon seems to be a foregone conclusion as to who will be hired, but it will be hilarious to see Penn State looking for a new coach already...

 

Alvarez, unless he commited to a Bill Snyder-type stay, would bring recruiting to a cold stop. Kids worth having aren't signing up for a one-year stand with the geezer and then God knows what.

 

And that's something Belichick did after spending a lot of time talking to Kelly about how it should work.

Kelly is smart. He'll adjust where he has to.

 

Wisconsin is not in a bad position, IMO. Alvarez can look around, see who is available and if he finds someone he likes --- either internally or externally --- he can hire them.

If he doesn't find someone he likes, he can take his sweet time, become an interim coach and have all next year to check out the field of would-be candidates. And no long-term commitments. That would be far better than rushing into a hire you don't feel good about and being stuck with someone for a 4-year contract.

 

I think Baylor is quite a bit tighter on the religious/moral stuff than TCU, which is Christian in name only.

I might be wrong, but I think there are some fairly tight rules about that there. Maybe it's different for the athletes, though.

 

Knowing people who went to both places, this is the impressing I got, too.

 

It's a lot stricter than, say, SMU. And Baylor seems to bend the rules for some athletes (but don't cross the color line if you're having premarital sex, for example).

That said, I spent a glorious drunken weekend in 1988 at Baylor. It was pretty fun.

 

Few decades? Nope, just short of two. But I'm sure he appreciates your thinking of him.

 

Did Todd Monken's presser today at Southern Miss, and this guy is one straight-talking SOB. Bluntly said everybody quit this year: players, coaches and fans. Ergo, 0-12.

And Eloss Johnson laughs all the way to the bank. He pockets a $2.1M buyout from Southern, then lands a DC job at Auburn worth about $800K a year. Used to they threw guys in jail who committed robbery like that.

I think Monken can turn it around pretty quick at USM. You could write volumes on what went wrong out there this year (the short version: if it could go wrong, it did), but after 18 straight winning seasons, you don't forget how to win overnight. Everybody says Monken will get the most out of whatever he has. I can live with that.

 

Texas co-offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin will be the next coach at Arkansas State, based on a Pat Forde RT of an ASU site.

 

To go from conference champs to 0-12, you have to screw up a lot of things. Far more than one person.

I really wonder if they should have given the guy a couple more years to see if he could coach. Sounds like someone who walked into a house that was burning and, yeah, it happened to burn down.

 

Confirmed by ESPN:

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8738781/sources-texas-longhorns-co-offensive-coordinator-bryan-harsin-takes-arkansas-state-red-wolves