2024-25 CFB coaching carousel

[dixiehack]

He's put in several years of work as a college ashistant, so not a meme hire.

 

[Batman]

He's put in several years of work as a college ashistant, so not a meme hire.

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By all accounts a good ashistant and recruiter who, like you said, has paid his dues for about 15 years. He had a bad season as an XFL head coach, but we won't hold that against him.
That said, he's pushing a boulder up Mount Everest trying to win at Valley. It's probably one of the five worst Division I athletics programs, top to bottom, in the entire country and there's not the same super-pashionate fan base like what Deion tapped into at Jackson State. The NIL program, if there is one, probably consists of a $25 gift card to the Tractor Supply over in Greenville. Getting them above .500 — something they haven't done since going 6-5 in 2006 — would be a monumental achievement that would deserve every coach of the year award that exists.
Glad to see him getting an opportunity to run his own program. Hopefully it won't leave a stain on him if he goes 4-18 over the next two years.

 

[dixiehack]

Presenting the unlikeliest twig of the Saban coaching tree. Former Bama strength coach turned Georgia special teams coordinator turned unemployed rehab patient Scott Cochran now running the show at Division II West Alabama.

https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2025/02/scott-cochran-lands-head-coaching-job-in-alabama.html

Hoping for continued sobriety. He was a cult favorite in Tuscaloosa but I don't think we ever saw him getting this far.

 

[wicked]

He was on Marty Smith's podcast years ago and he… sounded interesting.

 

[Batman]

West Alabama is actually a respectable D-II program, too. Made the playoffs last season and has produced a couple of NFL players (Tyreek Hill and Malcolm Butler) in the not-too-distant past.

 

[Twirling Time]

By all accounts a good ashistant and recruiter who, like you said, has paid his dues for about 15 years. He had a bad season as an XFL head coach, but we won't hold that against him.
That said, he's pushing a boulder up Mount Everest trying to win at Valley. It's probably one of the five worst Division I athletics programs, top to bottom, in the entire country and there's not the same super-pashionate fan base like what Deion tapped into at Jackson State. The NIL program, if there is one, probably consists of a $25 gift card to the Tractor Supply over in Greenville. Getting them above .500 — something they haven't done since going 6-5 in 2006 — would be a monumental achievement that would deserve every coach of the year award that exists.

The Tractor Supply in Greenwood is much closer. Just sayin'.

 

[franticscribe]

A lot of smoke billowing out of Bloomington, Ind. this afternoon.

 

[dixiehack]

A lot of smoke billowing out of Bloomington, Ind. this afternoon.

I heard that too. Really it's just a matter of time. A couple of Sundays ago he botched an end of game scenario in the most spectacular ways. He couldn't make up his mind on a sub and had a couple of different guys going back and forth. The crowd alternates between booing and cheering like they were trying to help a Price Is Right contestant.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler resigns, off to be the QB coach for the Eagles.

Seems like a decent MAC job, they have had some success and future big-time coaches (Meyer, Dave Clawson) there in the relatively recent past.

I was there in Nov., 2023. College town, very inexpensive housing costs, from a West Coaster's viewpoint. You could do a lot worse.

 

[HanSenSE]

Eddie George agrees to become the new coach at Bowling Green

 

[dixiehack]

I missed how BGSU had an off-cycle vacancy to fill.

 

[DanOregon]

I think their coach took an NFL gig.