2013 College Football coaching carousel

Timing is working against Tedford here. This was supposed to be the grand rebirth and celebration of Cal football back in its rebuilt stadium. And now they're 3-5 and headed probably to 4-8 (remaining schedule at Utah, vs. Washington, vs. Oregon, at Oregon State; to get bowl-eligible they'll need to win two of those games).

There is no momentum around this rebirth. And I don't know how many coaches who have their worst record in their 11th season get a 12th season.

 

Apparently, Tedford has three years left at $2.3 per. I'm not sure a buyout would cost $6.9, but they might have a hard time letting him walk away for a large chunk of that.

I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be canned, but he might be too expensive to can. I'd love to be wrong and watch Cal pay top dollar to bring in Tedford's replacement, but that's not usually how it seems to work at Cal.

 

Texas's biggest problem is Rivals-baiting. Yes, I'm biased as an A&M fan, but when you just point to the top 15-20 recruits in the state, plus 5 or so in the surrounding area and say "I want that" and do no more research, it can blow up on you.

If you win, you're supposed to. If not, then the doubts arise. For a class or two, you can get away with saying you recruited flops. But 3-4 years of underachieving classes, especially to the point of being a .500 treader and getting crushed by a school that's getting second pick in the state on a lot of Tx prospects (OU), the question becomes "Is the coaching staff not developing talent, or is it a culture that's building?" Firing Greg Davis was a testament to the Longhorn belief that it was the first, but with Harsin underwhelming and Diaz's defense playing soft, it's starting to look more like the second.

As for Mack leaving/getting fired, I think DeLoss Dodds is waiting as long as he can because, if I remember correctly, Mack becomes AD when he's out as head coach, and I don't think Dodds wants to stop living the flush cash life.

 

A deal where the guy who fires you is actually firing himself? Christ, that's some job security.

 

I have heard about that, but I didn't think it applied to a firing. Then again, when Brown signed that deal, I don't think firing was on the table as a possibility.

 

Chatter all over Knoxville that Gruden has a deal in place to coach UT.

 

I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm nowhere near close enough to evaluate, but that has been said at least three different times before, at Ohio State and Notre Dame and Miami. In 2001 there was a report that he was on a plane to Ohio. I think it was Pasquarelli. Then when it became clear he wasn't on a plane to Ohio, the report changed to he got to the tarmac and turned around.

 

I don't remember Ohio State, but I don't think it ever got that close with Miami or Notre Dame. One of the times Notre Dame went after him, he was coaching the Bucs and they were still being cheap about coaching salaries (pre Weiss) I think that was the same year they lost Meyer to Florida when UF gave Meyer $500K more than what ND was offering....

 

It's official. At least, if you take wikipedia seriously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Gruden

 

I hope it happens.

 

One place we won't see it confirmed is ESPN. After all, he only works for them so how could they ever ask him?

 

The fact that they've stayed silent, except for a few random comments by their house bloggers, indicates to me there may indeed be some fire where there's smoke.