2013 College Football coaching carousel

Coaching changes involving Jerry Jones as the decider are usually pretty straightforward and drama-free.

 

Regarding Iowa...

As long as Ferentz has the Hawkeyes playing boring football AND losing, Paul Rhoads over at Iowa State is loving it. The Cyclones play exciting football and can pull the occasional upset. This year at TCU, last year vs Okie State, 2010 at Texas. Rhoads is the beat coach for that program. Energetic, self-deprecating. He fills up notebooks by himself. I think he also knows this: as long as he goes 6-6 and doesn't get blown out too often, he is loved in Ames.

Iowa State has always been a stepping stone and always will be. Yet Rhoads never seems like he is looking to leave the second the Cyclones win six.

What I wonder: If Iowa State keeps outperforming Iowa and be more exciting in the process, I think this could flip recruiting in the state. Iowa is getting close to a very bad place. The Big Ten is changing and programs that don't upgrade now will always be in the lower half. Ten years ago, Iowa was consistently in the upper half. They are eroding at a Tennessee-like clip.

 

Yeah, records aside, expectations seem very different, going back to the Hayden Fry years. To outsiders, Iowa was the elite program and Iowa State was viewed as the doormat.

So anytime Iowa State beat anyone respectable, it was "holy crap, stop the presses".

 

OK, in a new twist in the SEC's "my coach has a bigger dick than yours" arms race, there are now reports that UT boosters are offering Gruden an ownership piece of the Cleveland Browns to come aboard the UT train:

http://wreg.com/2012/11/27/news-channel-3-learns-of-tennessees-new-twist-to-lure-gruden/

Shit like this almost makes me want to become an SEC fan. God love em, I can't wait to hear where these fanatics will go next in search of competitive advantage--Jerry Jones joining the "steal Les" movement, Browns ownership offered as UT inducement--you just never know where this shit's gonna turn next.

 

Prima nocte. That's all that's left.

 

Gruden told Mike+Mike that the reports are not true and that he loves MNF and he wanted to tell his wife and kids that it ain't happening.

Oh, well, time for me to change my avi. I'm not too enthused about replacing him with UT's next target, Jimbo.

 

If true I am not surprised. I never bought Gruden to Notre Dame, never bought Cowher to NC State, never buy any of these big name coaches getting back into the game to take a college job because it makes absolutely no sense at all.

Even if you love Tennessee - Gruden could take the Carolina Panthers job be not that far away make $8 million a year and not have to deal with all of the other BS that college coaches have to deal with.

 

For a guy who spends that much time coaching, studying film, scheming ... Why add the headache of recruiting to the pile?

 

Showing SEC speed, the Browns issued a denial of that.

 

First time they've shown that in awhile.

 

Because people like Spurrier and Saban have proven repeatedly that a college coaching gig is infinitely easier than an NFL coaching gig, and these days, the pay is basically the same for the people at the top?

 

Gruden speaks:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/jon-gruden-no-offer-coach-tennessee-volunteers