2013 College Football coaching carousel

Penn State and La Tech are good. Wouldn't go so far as to add the very. And certainly not someone you should lose to by 4 TDs at home.

La Tech's 3 other road wins:

At Houston by 7
At Virginia by 6
At New Mexico State by 14.

So that's where the Illini are. Trying to pull themselves up to the level of 1-8 New Mexico State.

 

As someone who's seen both in person this year, co-sign (although I do recognize Penn State has improved a lot since they visited Charlottesville).

 

Maybe they knew they couldn't afford him and decided pretending to be sanctimonious would go over better with the dozens who follow that program.

I know Kentucky has paid good money for football coaches before, but is there another BCS program where it is more impossible to succeed? That's taking into consideration that expectations are a lot lower at Vandy.

 

Duke.

But Cutcliffe is finding a way this year.

 

You nailed it, Steak.

Just to update, plenty of paper bags were in evidence Saturday night as a crowd of dozens in Hattiesburg watched as Southern had another come-from-ahead defeat. Up 16-0 at halftime to UAB, lost 27-19. What makes it worse, is that except for Tulsa and UCF, Conference USA blows chunks, but USM is still getting curb-stomped by these teams.

If they bring ELLLLLLLLLIS back, I believe there might be rioting.

 

I get that. But didn't you know that going in?

If you fire a coach after one season for something besides off-the-field stuff, you should get up in front of the microphone and tell the public "I made a STUPID mistake and I'm hoping this next guess is a little better."

Isn't that the reason most of these guys demand multi-year deals, so that they are assured of having the necessary time to get the program going in the direction they want?

 

Rumblings I'm hearing are that Ellis may fire himself, and try to find a soft spot to land as d-coordinator at Georgia Tech or somewhere comparable.

 

As for Derek Dooley..... unless you want to "audition" one of the current assistants for the head coaching job, what difference does it make? This season is down the toilet anyway. If you're going to bring in someone from outside the program, wait till after the final game.

 

Because you generally don't fire a coach until after you've been eliminated from bowl eligibility. Tennessee is 4-5 right now.

 

Would Tennessee even go to a bowl if eligible?

Gotta come up with a party line. It's either "Hey, we're still bowl eligible, so the sky isn't falling." or it's "we stink and we're cleaning house, starting with the head coach." What's it gonna be?

 

The only teams to turn down a bowl bid in recent years, IIRC, are Notre Dame, South Carolina and Clemson. No one is skipping bowl games anymore; the practice time is too valuable.

 

Well, UT kind of refused last year when 80% of the team refusd to give effort against Kentucky.