2013 College Football coaching carousel

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Tennessee interests me. Great tradition, great resources, but they always seem to underachieve. Kinda the ASU or Cal of the SEC.

 

The hope of many is that he takes over for Saban, but proves himself as a head coach somewhere in the meantime. Obviously the Opelika Academy of Asphalt Engineering isn't what anyone had in mind.

 

Hopefully Nebraska gets rid of Bo Pelini, hires Paul Rhoads and we can all watch him scream about being so proud for the next three decades.

 

If they Haslams pulled all of this off... Gruden to the Vols and more importantly, Saban away from Alabama, what would they want next? Neyland Stadium re-named after them?

 

Yeah, I can't imagine Alabama ever handing the football team to someone without head coaching experience... Although, maybe Saban will wait until Super Bowl week to decide to go to Cleveland and then Smart will end up with the job by default.

 

Larry Coker didn't get 10 years. Fulmer gets a bad rap. He coached 10 years after the championship season and won an average of 8.5 games a year, making four SEC title games. That doesn't look so bad to Tennessee now.

 

Coker won with Davis' players, so the perception will always be that he didn't "earn" that title...
Chizik won with Newton, who was bought for him, so the perception will always be that he didn't "earn" that title...

Agree about Fulmer getting a bad rap. Averaging nine wins a season in the SEC is not easy to do. They won one title and came pretty close (2001) from playing for another one...

 

I don't know that there is an heir apparent to Saban at Alabama, but if there was one it would be Smart. He's been with Saban for close to 10 years now (with the exception of one year at Georgia).

As for what Alabama would do if Saban left for the NFL before his contract expires in 2020, they could obviously have pretty much anyone they wanted. If it was this year, it would probably be someone like Dan Mullen or Dabo Swinney.

Two or three or four years down the road, Kevin Sumlin might make sense. He was born in Brewton, Ala., where his dad was a successful high school coach in the pre-integration days before moving to Indiana.

 

Dear. Fucking. God. No.

 

If Auburn goes after Mullen, the obvious candidate for Mississippi State would be Mark Hudspeth at Louisiana-Lafayette. He was WR coach for Mullen two years ago and is from Louisville, Miss., which is about 30 miles from Starkville. I think he didn't go after the Southern Miss job last year because MSU was the one he wanted.

 

If Saban leaves town after this year, he will have put in one less season than Gene Stallings, who no one ever accused of being on the make. Not bad for a guy people were speculating would leave Tuscaloosa after half an hour.

 

And he's also about the same age as Stallings was during his last season at Alabama, which doesn't seem possible. Stallings turned 61 in March of 1996, Saban turns 61 on Oct. 31.