2024-25 CFB coaching carousel

Arkansas is bowl-eligible - is 6-6 or 7-5 and a shitty bowl game enough to put Petrino 2.0 at Arkansas on the back burner?

 

This guy says there's no break in waiting until the start of the new calendar year.
In either case, we're not talking about great journalism here.
The true math about the Neal Brown buyout

 

Rice hires HC from Davidson. Likely will be another modern triple option team.

https://footballscoop.com/news/rice...EGXZ8dx6LbEqTNxM2g_aem_2hOdeiwS7IDFJHVl4w2jbQ

 

Scott was the coach at Amherst High School during part of my Lynchburg years, always enjoyed my dealings with him. I know Rice isn't the greatest FBS program, but to go from two Lynchburg area high schools to a middling DIII program in Washington & Lee, to a non-scholarship FCS like Davidson, then jump to FBS is quite the interesting career path.

 

OTOH, I think for G5's going into the era of having to make payments to players and other budget strains, hiring rising or winning coaches from FCS is going to happen more often. Some will still go with Power retreads, but the risk is that you hire a guy on a descending arc or an older guy who is looking for a steady paycheck but does not have the energy and focus that got him to his Power job in the first place. They cost more money and you run the risk of hiring a Tom Herman.

 

The RichRod stories desperately need copy editors. Damn.

 

I hope you're right, franticscribe (yeah, I know you and UNCGrad and Tarheel316 probably don't believe that). Mack is the epitome of class and deserves nothing but credit and our respect. Hope Bubba is smart enough not to hire another knuckle-dragging POS like Larry Fedora.

(Now having said all that, I'm not pulling for him to go out a winner. Hope you understand ... )