2013 College Football coaching carousel

Gotta think those who antied up for the stadium renovation at Cal might not be too happy with Tedford right about now.

 

What on earth happened to them? They were good last year.

 

Last year's team was senior-dominated, and Fedora didn't leave a ton of talent in the younger classes. The high school talent in the state has been poor overall the last few years, and with Joey Jones at South Alabama and Mark Hudspeth at ULL now, USM isn't stealing second-tier guys from Louisiana, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle like it once did.

And Johnson was simply a bad hire. Not only was he a career coordinator, but he filled his staff with a bunch of retreads (Tommy West, Rickey Bustle) and high school coaches (Steve Buckley, Tucker Peavey).

 

A friend of mine was trying to convince me Mack Brown would be out at Texas. I'm mixed. The loss to Oklahoma could carry a long-lasting stench.

Although, if you read some stuff from today, he doesn't have any time to actually be a head coach or recruiter because he's taping shows for the silly Longhorn Network.

 

Does UConn replace Paul Pasqualoni after this season (3 years left).

I really think Cowher enjoys what he's doing and doesn't want to go back to the 18 hour days.

 

That's how it typically plays out, but it's not typical that you have a Heisman Trophy winner bought and paid for, either. At least that everyone knows about.

I think it's pretty safe to make the conclusion which is the rule and which is the exception with Chizik's career.

2007 (at Iowa State): 3-9
2008 (at Iowa State): 2-10
2009: 8-5
2010 (with Cam Newton) 14-0
2011: 8-5
2012: 1-6

So without the Newton-stained season, he is 22-35 for his career, including 7-14 in the SEC. And probably the most important number is that since coming to Auburn, Alabama has 2 (with maybe a third to come this season) national titles.

 

For other openings, I wonder how many seizures Minnesota's Jerry Kill is going to have before he decides enough is enough?

 

Would surprise me. After all, he won a national championship, actually more recently than Bob Stoops did.

There is a lunatic fringe there --- like many schools --- that believes the team should go 12-0 every year. But that's not reality and most people know it. I suspect he wins enough --- 7-5 or 8-4 and a bowl game --- to survive.

 

Who are they gonna target?

Also, UMass ... just brutal this year. I know it's the first year in the MAC, but I'm wondering if they don't try to get someone with a bigger profile in New England/the Northeast. They probably won't, though, because it's an absolutely horrible situation (home games two hours from campus in front of 60,000+ empty seats, for starters).

 

The issue isn't Brown's overall record, it's that his team has gotten skull-dragged by its biggest rival two straight years. You can't lose by 40 to Oklahoma and survive at Texas; you just can't.

Brown has a great resumé, but his program is clearly trending in the wrong direction. The Longhorns are 17-14 since the 2010 BCS championship game loss to Alabama.

More so than any other program, Texas gets its recruiting done early, sometimes filling up its class 6 or 8 months before signing day. If the guys you are evaluating at 16 don't develop as projected by the time they're 19 or 20, you're going to wind up with a roster full of average-to-very-good players.

 

Muschamp bailed after 2010. Coincidence?

 

Muschamp was still there for the 5-7 debacle in 2010. That BCS title game loss to Alabama was at the end of the 2009 season.

And to bring this full-circle, you know who was Texas' defensive coordinator when they won it all in 2005?

Gene Chizik