2023 College Football Coaching Carousel thread

[Liut]

This is low-end FCS, but the Texas Southern coaching situation is turning into a giant clusterfork for a lot of people.

They wooed Alcorn State's Fred McNair (older brother of Steve and an Alcorn legend in his own right) and the Board of Regents was supposed to vote on a contract for him last week. Word was that it was a done deal. Except the eight-person board couldn't form a quorum, so they postponed the vote. On Monday, Alcorn announced at noon that it couldn't come to an agreement with McNair on a new contract and that he was out as coach. An hour later they made another announcement that defensive coordinator Cedric Thomas is the new head coach.
On Wednesday, Texas Southern called another meeting. Two board members either failed to show up or disagreed with the choice. There is talk that they want former Texans receiver Andre Johnson to take the job, or that Ed Reed (who was head coach at Bethune-Cookman for five hot minutes before saying "screw this") is interested.

Meanwhile, a pretty good coach (McNair has won two SWAC championships) is now out of a job at a school where his family's name is gold and Texas Southern went through signing day without a head coach. And there is very little local reporting on it that I can find because Texas Southern is about the 10th most popular Division I program in Houston and it doesn't look like anyone covers them. The best I can find is a local website that was linked to in another niche HBCU sports website.
Just some fascinating drama where no one seems to be providing insight into what the heck is happening.

https://defendernetwork.com/sports/college-sports/texas-southern-football-coach-mcnair/

I didn't cover the SWAC all that long, but it's an adventure like the above that made it fun.
Will say this: I found SWAC coaches and ADs among the most accessible in my career.
It was almost as if they so rarely got to speak to a reporter that they wanted to get issues off their chests and say things they later wished they hadn't.

 

[Chef2]

No horsing around.

Rebecca Lobo's nipples just got hard while munching on an apple and has no idea why.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Lots of horse sense?

They're getting the jump on everyone.

 

[Della9250]

Jerry Kill steps down at New Mexico State

 

[Alma]

Jerry Kill steps down at New Mexico State

3rd time he's walked away from a job I think. Including an OC. Perhaps he had no choice here after kicking up dust in his New Mexico Bowl postgame presser.

He's had excellent short term success at times but he probably belonged at a top FCS program, and not any level of FBS.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Medical issues. He's been dealing with epilepsy for years.

 

[Chef2]

Kill resigned, his OC is going to Vandy.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

I think if you grab one of your conference's former head coaches as a coordinator, it's not a bad thing.

Between Allen and Jajuan Seider, Penn State has two recruiters that can bring in some talent.

 

[wicked]

DeBoer hires sitting head coaches at South Alabama and Buffalo for his coordinators. I don't think two FBS coaches have quit to become coordinators (albeit at a big-time program) before.

 

[tapintoamerica]

DeBoer hires sitting head coaches at South Alabama and Buffalo for his coordinators. I don't think two FBS coaches have quit to become coordinators (albeit at a big-time program) before.

And they're both getting raises from their head coaching gigs, I suspect.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Let's hear it for trickle down. I'm hoping that UAB can get some defensive portal guys from South Alabama and Troy, both of whom lost their head coaches. Lord knows we need them.

 

[DanOregon]

I totally understand the move - more likely that they can parlay a DC or OC gig at Alabama into a solid P5 HC gig, than elevate their programs to a level where they are considered for a solid P5 coaching gig. Kind of removes the need to take an HC job at Memphis or Boston College.