College FB coaching openings

Looks like Chizik has emerged as the front-runner at Auburn. Seriously.

I'd provide a link but it's subscriber-only.

Wow. Boy that hire sure would galvanize the fan-base.

I know just because he hasn't won at Iowa State doesn't mean he won't win at Auburn. But 5-19 is still 5-19.

 

Zook is a great recruiter. He's a horrible coach. He got lucky last year.

 

If Chizik is hired, and they're not in a bowl next season, Auburn will be doing this again at this time next year.

 

Are you talking about Zook or Les Miles?

 

It's New Mexico. It matters because NM State is the D-I school with the longest bowl drought (1960). And I believe they still don't have a coach.

 

The fact that ISU sent out a press release last night confirming Chizik as a candidate says to me they wouldn't mind seeing him go.

The fact that he whacked both of his coordinators at the end of the season says to me he's under some heat from the administration. And Iowa State's AD has never been shy about bouncing coaches (basketball coach Greg McDermott, you might be next after that shoddy performance against Iowa last night).

Still, I agree with an earlier post — I can't see Auburn folks being fired up hiring a head coach that went 5-19 at his current stop.

 

Chizik < Tuberville. Auburn = Fail.

 

... in what they consider an inferior conference to their own.

Two years from now, Auburn may look at Tuberville's 5-7 this season and view it as the good old days. This is the train wreck that keeps on giving.

 

When was the last time a coach lost his last 10 games at a school, and then got a better job?

And, let's remember, that Chizik's 2-10 (0-8 Big 12) this year didn't include Oklahoma, Texas or Texas Tech on the schedule ...

What an awful, awful choice if he ends up getting the job ... though I'm sure Alabama and Georgia fans will be thrilled.

 

The Locksley hire is a good one. I think New Mexico is one of the better places to coach, great area, but you would have thought he would have been a natural to replace Groh at Virginia if the post came open.
I understand hiring coaches has as much to do with "marketing" as anything else - how often have we heard programs are seeking a young, dynamic coach to energize the program. Anyone think if Mike Leach looked or acted more like Urban Meyer, Bob Stoops or Pete Carroll he would still be in Lubbock? I understand it. You want a coach who can sell himself and sell the program. The coaches with a quantifiable track record you would bet your first born child on are rare (Stoops, Saban, Meyer), so you take a shot on someone who makes you "believe" with a background similar to those mentioned above.