CFB coaching carousel

Is Mark Richt going to keep his job?
I think he's the most under-achieving coach in major college football. UGA has a ton of NFL-caliber players in his tenure and they have nothing to show for it.

 

Kentucky OC Neal Brown will be named head coach at Troy on Monday, according to numerous reports.

 

Bo Pelini, come on down!

http://www.ketv.com/news/nebraska-athletic-director-fires-head-football-coach-bo-pelini/29989760

 

Pelini officially out at Nebraska. The dominoes should start falling fast now.

 

Florida's going to fire Muschamp's replacement?

 

Any guy that isn't Tom Osborne isn't lasting at that job. It's 1996 all day every day for those guys.

 

So losing to Iowa at home gets you another year but beating Iowa on the road gets you shitcanned. Yeah, sounds about right…

 

A bit of devil's advocate here, but Nebraska should have just been content?

Tom Osborne isn't walking through that door, but it's still a program with resources. A ton of them. Facilities, passionate fan base, a ton of money, history. TCU and Baylor can become consistent winners, but Nebraska should be content with 4 losses and repeated *ss kickings by the best teams on their schedule?

I can't blame them.

 

It's also located in Nebraska while there's not much of a recruiting base. TCU and Baylor happen to be located in Texas, slightly easier to find top-level high school talent there.

There's a fine line between being content and being smart. The guy wasn't great but he won 9 or 10 games every year and played for three conference titles in seven years. Obviously it would have been nice for him to win one or two but the difficulties of convincing the nation's top football prospects to go to Nebraska remain whether he's there or not.

 

Nebraska fans could probably live with nine or 10 wins a season if the coach wasn't openly a jackass. Give 'em a phony "good" guy coach so they can claim moral superiority and they can live with being good, but not in the National championship picture.

 

Sure Nebraska's got history. But there are several top-tier teams today that were laughingstocks when I was growing up (Oregon, TCU, Baylor, Kansas State, Mississippi State, etc.).

Somebody has to fall back if X amount of programs are going to rise. Given their location and recruiting base, perhaps it's remarkable they were a power as long as they were. The last thing their fans want to hear is, "Be grateful for what you had as long as you had it," but that may very well be the reality.