2020-21 CFB Coaching Carousel

Given the unreasonable fan bases at any P5 school, I’d rather stay at Boise for 20 years and be a hero. And still make a mil. Boise was kind of close to getting into a championship game one year but spit the bit at crunch time.

 

I don't really care if they expand it or not, but a few thoughts...

I don't really think we add much by letting Liberty or Coastal Carolina get their asses handed to them in the playoff. Sportswriters love to act like it's a shame that we'll never know if the little guys are good enough to win the title. Spoiler alert -- they're not, and we're reminded of that every time a minnow gets a shot at the big guys.

Also, Bama/Clemson doesn't kill the interest in the sport. We may act like we want the little guy in there, but the ratings for Clemson/Alabama will blow away the ratings for Liberty/Alabama. People want to see the titans fight.

And really, Saban and Swinney aren't going to be there forever. There's an expiration date for this. Alabama will still be a power but it won't be this. Clemson is done when Swinney goes.

 

The numbers are staggering. The growth of administrators has far outpaced the growth in enrollment in the past decade.

 

Herman out; Sark in.

Sources: Sarkisian to replace Herman as coach at Texas

Herman either can't or does not want to scheme a sophisticated passing game that doesn't require his QB to be the team's No. 1 ballcarrier.

Sarkisian can and does.

That said, Herman would have been better in a different era when he could have just been idiosyncratic and odd - which, he is - without having to package that into some kind of brand of cool (which, he is not.)

He'll be an OC somewhere, and then re-emerge at Kansas or something.

 

I don't know how many formalized commitments during the early signing period, but wow.

 

Texas signed 18 guys. Good-not-great class. Mostly Texas guys.

The goal at Texas is to get, say, 10 of the 25 best in Texas, a few rough diamonds outside of that top group that you like, then good national recruits where you can, specifically Louisiana and California.

Texas got two of the top 25. A&M got 6. Bama got 5.

Last year Texas got 8 of the top 25.

Herman knew this was the year. He knew.

 

If I'm Art Briles I do anything possible to work on Saban's offense. Hire a platoon of hookers to slob his knob, whatever it takes.

 

He already quit his high school job in Mt. Vernon, Texas, so something new has to be on tap.

 

Not if he's smart. Mangino didn't make himself enough friends, but the passage of time has been quite kind to his achievements.

 

Then what would the local beatwriters have to do with their time?

 

Small detail but something of interest to higher ed nerds: The announcement of Herman's firing came from the UT Austin AD. The announcement of the new coach came from the chair of the UT System Board of Regents.