2024-25 CFB coaching carousel

Steve Belichick has about a dozen years of NFL coaching experience and coached 3 Super Bowl champions. You could do worse. I think the nepotism would have come in 2012 when he was first hired by the Patriots.

 

Jax State’s Rich Rodriguez headed back to West Virginia, reports say

https://www.al.com/sports/2024/12/jax-states-rich-rodriguez-headed-back-to-west-virginia.html

 

I can certainly see this ending disastrously, but I gotta say Belichick’s willingness to take this chance and switch lanes like this is in some ways pretty admirable. We’re all wired differently but if I was his age and had his financial wherewithal and body of work the temptation to kick back and enjoy a stress free life would be pretty strong.

 

I agree, mateen. If I had a brazillon dollars and brazillion girlpal and was 73 or whatever, I'd damned sure not be coaching.

I don't get it. You've worked your ass off for however many decades, as a coach or professor or media person or whatever. Why the hell does Saban need to be on TV jacking around with the Gameday stuff? Mystifying. I know guys who run construction firms and boast that they never take a vacation or won't retire "because I just love my job and I have to be doing something."

Fuck that. Retire and go enjoy life doing something else.

 

Art Blank is kicking a cat across the room right now.
We couldn’t get the sumamabitch down here, and some piss-ant college gets him?

 

I’m equally bewildered by those types, but as I said, we’re all wired differently.

The part I don’t quite understand, apart from setting up his son down the road at UNC, is Belichick doing it at a Division I school that lacks the resources to really compete in this new world. I could have totally seen him wanting to coach pure football at Division III and avoid the nonsense - Halberstam said in his book he thought Belichick might do that.

 

Maybe he just really loves coaching football or a challenge. Who knows? I've wondered why bands continue to play long after they should have retired. Do they really need the money, adulation, high?
I can see Jim Harbaugh coaching until he dies.
Two of the winnigest coaches of all time died shortly after retiring/being fired - Bear Bryant and Joe Paterno. Maybe Belichick thinks coaching is what keeps him going.

 

I think the surprising part is why not chase the nfl wins record. You’re that close and if you are going to do any coaching, why not pursue it instead of this

 

I look at a team like New Orleans, they won't contend for a Super Bowl in the next five years no matter who is the coach, but they could get Belichick the record.

 

It's ego. His NFL career, while legendary, ended in a disaster and many think Brady was the reason they won, not his coaching, especially after Brady went to the Bucs and won again.

He has really never won anywhere without Brady. Not in Cleveland, and not with the Pats pre- and post-Brady. He has to prove his coaching chops again.

 

Probably not the first head coach who is as likely to bed the star recruit's hot sister as he is to land the actual recruit, but certainly the oldest and most famous.