College FB coaching openings

Northern Iowa's coach might be a good snag for the Cyclones. He's had a good amount of success at the FCS level, hasn't he? Not that he'd want to leave success at UNI for a place like Iowa St., but you never know.

 

Moving to I-A didn't work out so well for the last UNI coach who tried it.

Now that Gill is locked up at least for this year Iowa State is pretty much fucked when it comes to making a splashy hire.

 

Iowa State isn't a good place for a splashy hire. It's a program with the destiny, I think, is to be mediocre, at best.

 

True. But it's Iowa State. How big of a splash was this going to make anyway?

 

And a good move by Turner Gill, IMO. He's not playing the Greg Schiano game, risking it all for a little more. He's going to keep winning at Buffalo, and he'll parlay this into a good gig sometime soon. Probably this time next year.

 

As a native Iowan I agree completely. However, Pollard can't hire a Mark Farley. He needs to a I-A guy. And as a BCS school, the delusional part of the ISU fan base (a small part compared to most places I will grant you) thinks they can land the hot guy on the market just because they're in a BCS conference.

Of course, the only reason ISU is in a BCS conference is because every league needs at least one team that's going to go 3-9 every year.

 

How can you say that to Troy?

 

Slowly.

So he can keep up.

 

Just what that BCS conference needs... Buffalo.

 

Do they still have the clout to keep them out when that conference implodes and finally splits between the FB/BB and BB-only schools? Tough to survive as an eight-team football conference.

UB is the flagship state university of one of the country's largest states, with outstanding graduate programs and plenty of research dollars. It easily fits the academic profile, such that it is, of the Big East's football schools. The TV market isn't as big as it once was, but it's not chump change, either.

Its athletic department isn't great now. But it's getting better every year.

 

I suggest Syracuse start winning some games before they start deciding who can and can not join the Big East. I don't think their vote will carry much weight if there is a split.

 

The problem with Buffalo joining the Big East is that it pissed off one-fourth of the conference in '06 by bailing out on a pair of games against Rutgers and WVU at the last minute for bigger guaranteed paydays. Then, AD Warde Manuel a.) didn't bother to tell the schools' ADs, who learned of the schedule changes online, and b.) blamed the MAC for it.

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