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Think he's content in the Happy Place of Athens, Ohio.


And screw Nebraska. They deserve what they get. Never cared much for Pellini. He hung on there longer than he should have.

 

Pat Forde reporting Florida is eyeing Hugh Freeze and Jim McElwain:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--colorado-state-coach-jim-mcelwain-a-leading-candidate-for-florida-job-011656592.html

McElwain would be interesting. He recruited Florida for both Louisville and Alabama, and has done a great job at Colorado State.

Trouble is, his buyout is $7.5 million, which is a lot even for the Bull Gators.

Freeze I don't see leaving Ole Miss right now. He's practically from there (though he went to Southern Miss) and looks like he's got a good thing going.

Tommy "Pine Box" Tuberville aside, coaches don't generally leave one SEC school to go directly to another.

 

Florida has been adamant that if won't touch a coach who has been in trouble with the NCAA. Isn't Ole Miss being investigated? Maybe I'm getting mixed up.

$7.5 million is nothing to sneeze at, but if Foley decided McElwain is his guy, I think he'd pay it, or try to negotiate it down. I don't know if that's possible or not, but I'm guessing CSU wouldn't say no if Foley handed them a check for $5 million.

Tebow has said he hopes Freeze gets the job, so that will definitely help with the Bull Gators. The guy can recruit too.

 

Solich's firing was more because of boner-assed AD Steve Pederson than it was the fanbase being pissed. Solich too was fied after going 9-3. Boner-assed Steve Pederson said in a press conference that he refuse to let the program, "gravitate towards mediocrity," then was turned down by Houston Nutt, Dave Wannstedt, Vince Lombardi, Jon Gruden, John Madden and God himself before making the splash hire of....

 

The CFB industry gets more out of whack every day...but the idea of one school (or even just the supporters of that school) paying $5-$7.5 million as a transfer fee to Colorado State could be the shark jumping point.

 

The average distance from campus that the kids Pelini recruited to go there was like either 750 or 900 miles...I forgot the number. So you're looking a 10-12 car ride for the parents of an average recruit.

And their standards for admission have changed drastically. Tom Osborne was able to take fucking prop 48 kids and now they are in the Big Ten where they discourage JuCo transfers so it's a much more difficult task getting players there.

 

Report that Buffalo hired Lance Leipold, coach at Division III dynasty Wisconsin-Whitewater.

http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/11/28/buffalo-bulls-hire-lance-leipold-head-coach

Big jump. But he has already shown the requisite Division I quality of being a megalomaniacal asshole with reporters.

 

Well, hell, that's great, but WW is still alive in the d3 playoffs. Is he going to finish the playoffs with WW ?

 

I assume so. No reason to get to Buffalo in the next two weeks anyway.

 

That's a hell of a jump for Leipold, from Division III to Division I. Bravo on the move. Good guy with unthinkable success at Whitewater.

If nothing else, he could fail at Buffalo and make more money there in 3 years than he would have in 15 at Whitewater.

 

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Hope he banked all those dollars Southern Miss had to pay to run him off after he completely wrecked their football program, because he's done as a coach.

 

Being a Whitewater alumnus, I hate the timing of this with the D3 playoffs still going on. But Leipold surely has nothing else to prove at the D3 level.