CFB coaching carousel

Probably moot about Mullen and Nebraska anyway. If Nebraska does fire Pelini, I imagine they'll hire Scott Frost, former Huskers QB and current Oregon offensive coordinator.

 

Clearly. I mean look how much better Texas Tech is now that he's gone.

 

I suppose the carousel will really heat up next week when the regular season is done and schools like Florida, Michigan and some others start making moves.

 

Absolutely nothing to base this one, other than some Ohio State recruiting buzz (a kid committed elsewhere, now make a visit to tOSU).....but some talk re: Hugh Freeze to Florida???

 

I just hope this season is a little better than last year, when there were so many unsubstantiated rumors and plain bad guesses that a lot of reporters came off looking stupid in their attempts to get "scoops". It will all play out soon enough.

 

Typically, things really start cooking the week after Conference Championship Saturday, when pretty much every coach in the country is in New York for the National Football Foundation banquet at the Waldorf Astoria.

It's college football version of the baseball winter meetings. ADs can interview candidates in their hotel rooms without having to go to the expense of (or arouse suspicion by) flying them in.

 

He's pretty good when he can lure decent-to-very-good texas kids to Texas Tech.

Hard to be good with that offense in Pullman. You need polished skill. Guys who have done that stuff over and over for 10 years in 7-on-7 tournaments all over the joint. And then you need some athletes on D who can stop the run despite facing 80 passes in every practice. Not fit for Wazzu.

He'd have won 8-10 at SMU.

 

I agree Nebraska is a better job than MSU. But Mullen has done enough to find another job if he wants to leave. And right now I think Pellini should be job hunting. Bo is in a situation where another head coaching job at any school in a Big Five conference would look attractive.

 

I can't fathom anyone hiring Pellini. He's a first-class jackass and his won-loss record is nothing to write home about. Might make a decent defensive coach, but certainly not a head coach.

 

Plenty of very successful head coaches are jackasses, or much worse. Pelini has won, not at a spectacular rate, but at a rate such that if he were to run off a two-year stretch of 21-5 (certainly not out of the realm of possibility at NU), he'd be considered a god again.

I floated the idea a couple pages ago, but if Pelini resigned under semi-pressure at Nebraska, you could argue a straight-up Pelini-for-Mullen trade might actually be about as good an outcome as all parties might hope for.

 

What's Pellini's best season at Nebraska? 9-3? Not spectacular by Nebraska standards.

As one fan wrote on a message board after a disheartening loss a few years back: "I guess you have to be able to take it as well as dish it out, but it sure was a lot more fun when we were the ones dishing it out."

 

Reports saying Chad Morris to SMU for $3 million a year.