2023 College Football Coaching Carousel thread

[Cosmo]

JMU's endowment is actually $123 million as of 6/30/22, but that's an astonishing 20% less than it had been the year before $156 million). Makes you wonder if they dipped into the endowment to help finance this big-time football thingy.

There's an argument to be made that JMU has the strongest overall athletics program in Virginia right now. Football undefeated and ranked. Men's basketball ranked. Men's and women's soccer both in the NCAA tournament. Women's basketball generally competes for an at-large bid. Softball was in the WCWS championship game just a few years ago.

 

[doctorquant]

JMU's endowment is actually $123 million as of 6/30/22, but that's an astonishing 20% less than it had been the year before $156 million). Makes you wonder if they dipped into the endowment to help finance this big-time football thingy.

If one really wondered that, one would read that endowment's annual report, in which a net investment loss of $30M to $35M for 21/22 was noted.

 

[Neutral Corner]

There's going to be a lot of interest in this one for sure.
Lanning's OC at Oregon is from Austin…..and he was UTSA OC before he went north…..I'm not quite sure he's ready for that big of a jump, but if Traylor goes, I could envision him going back to being HC at UTSA before another one opens ……I wouldn't be shocked if Kingsbury threw his name in since he was on staff previously……Lebby is interesting……

Interesting for certain. I don't think that aTm will hire Traylor. They'll talk themselves out of it. Not a big enough name, no P5 experience, yadda yadda. I'm not sure there's a better guy for the job, but we're talking about the Aggies here.

 

[Slacker]

Interesting for certain. I don't think that aTm will hire Traylor. They'll talk themselves out of it. Not a big enough name, no P5 experience, yadda yadda. I'm not sure there's a better guy for the job, but we're talking about the Aggies here.

I hope they hire Lou Holtz. They sorta deserve each other.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Harbaugh to A&M would be the funniest outcome.

 

[Flip Wilson]

I think A&M will look really hard at UTSA HC and Texas HS coaching legend Jeff Traylor. I've seen a good bit of his UTSA teams and they are solid and well coached. They could do a damn sight worse.

I don't know if A&M fans would go for hiring a coach from a Conference USA school. I married into an Aggie family, and I'm pretty sure that wouldn't go over well, but nobody on that side of the family has deep enough pockets to have any sort of influence either.

 

[Neutral Corner]

AAC now, but I understand what you're saying. That's exactly the attitude I was talking about. Schools do stupid stuff in these hires. I'm thinking about Alabama *having* to hire one of "Bear's Boys", or Michigan a "Michigan Man". Got to have a pedigree, the right connections, picking a guy because he's an alumni instead of conducting an open coaching search and hiring the best football coach. Jimbo recruited nationally with great success, but he also roundly pissed off a lot of Texas high school coaches, guys who could have really helped him. Traylor is widely respected among those guys and could fix that problem quickly. He won what, five championships in fifteen years HS in Texas.

We'll see. I'm just saying that I've watched a lot of their games. They are well coached, persistent. They don't quit. Good fundamentals. They win. They come from behind and win. They get it done on the field, and all that stuff starts with coach and culture. Look at what Lance Leipold has done at Kansas. He coached at Nebraska-Omaha, Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Buffalo. He took a Kansas team that was the armpit of NCAA football and had them ranked in his second year there.

SMH. I pretty much count on Aggie screwing it up somehow, paying another guy way too much money to not get them over the hump.

They'll probably hire Lane Kiffen.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I hope they hire Lou Holtz. They sorta deserve each other.

Skip Holtz would probably take the job...

 

[SixToe]

Jimbo recruited nationally with great success, but he also roundly pissed off a lot of Texas high school coaches, guys who could have really helped him.

This always baffles me. Any good coach knows that you have to have HS conections IN STATE even if you're not always going to recruit their kids. You still have to meet with them, visit, MAKE THE EFFORT, show up at the coaching clinics, show up at the HS whatevers, go to the championship games just to be seen, unless you're somewhere else.

Why? Because HS coaches talk with parents, and parents and runners and all of them can open or shut doors quickly. It's mind-boggling. New coach comes in and has to "re-establish" the relationships with whatever HS coaches, or maybe all of them. Even if your time is stretched, and I know coaches' time is triple-stretched, you make time to make contact from the teeny to mighty. It's just good networking, good relationship-building, and common sense.

 

[Cosmo]

This always baffles me. Any good coach knows that you have to have HS conections IN STATE even if you're not always going to recruit their kids. You still have to meet with them, visit, MAKE THE EFFORT, show up at the coaching clinics, show up at the HS whatevers, go to the championship games just to be seen, unless you're somewhere else.

Why? Because HS coaches talk with parents, and parents and runners and all of them can open or shut doors quickly. It's mind-boggling. New coach comes in and has to "re-establish" the relationships with whatever HS coaches, or maybe all of them. Even if your time is stretched, and I know coaches' time is triple-stretched, you make time to make contact from the teeny to mighty. It's just good networking, good relationship-building, and common sense.

Justin Fuente has entered the chat.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

They'll probably hire Lane Kiffen.

Kiffin Would Be A Low Risk Can't Miss Hire | TexAgs

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Traylor to A&M would actually be a smart, responsible hire. Bringing in a guy that is good coach from East Texas and has a lot of connections to that weird ass A&M culture and not having to break the bank to do so. Traylor or maybe Chris Klieman, but the Aggies seem to be of the mentality they would rather big spend and give the impression to people that they are flashy then do something sensible.

I wonder if Mississippi State would look into a reunion with Dan Mullen?