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Official 2017 Coaching Carousel Thread - Zona hires Sumlin

Way too many people bitching about Taggart only staying and year and worried about the kids. The guy is from Florida and grew up an FSU fan, if he dreamed of coaching in the state at one of the big 3 programs this was the time to do it as he doesn't know when they will open up again.
 
Way too many people bitching about Taggart only staying and year and worried about the kids. The guy is from Florida and grew up an FSU fan, if he dreamed of coaching in the state at one of the big 3 programs this was the time to do it as he doesn't know when they will open up again.

That job's been open twice in 40 years. When you hire a Florida guy to coach on the exact other end of the country, you have to be aware of a certain flight risk, especially if one of the 3 big jobs there opens up.

 
Boom FSU moves, awaiting Oregon, Arky and UT lite now....

Filled jobs:

fUCLA- They strike hard and fast, grabbing the brass ring and landing Chip Kelly. h/t Jens.
UF- Mullen is in, per ESPN.
Ole Miss- Matt Luke it is. h/t nik. 2 year bowl ban, loss of schollies
MSU- Joey Moorhead, OC at Penn. St. takes over in Starkville. h/t cmgoods
ASU- Herm Edwards. Strange hire. ASU installing an NFL model, run by a the future P12 champ in free association. The P12S cheers this hire. (h/t Jens)
aTm- Jimbo leaves FSU h/t Serenity Buff UPDATE: $7.5 MM a year. He damn well better win.
Oregon St.- Cal OC Beau Baldwin was tapped for the job. h/t nik UPDATE: Washington OC Jonathon Smith nabs the job.
NU- The nubs get their man, Frost it is. (h/t Jens)
UCF- Josh Heupel, fmr. Mizzou OC, with Randy Shannon as DC. (h/t AeroBuff and Jalapeno)
FSU- Taggart leaves the Ducklings. (h/t Serenity Buff and Hokie)

Open jobs:

Rice- David Bailiff let go. (h/t zapata), Stanford OC Mike Bloomgren may get the nod (h/t nik)
Arky- Bielema out. Malzahn sign extension with Auburn. Norvell? Morris? (h/t onealcd) Arky boards alive with sound of Kiffin.
Kent St.- Paul Haynes out. h/t mdelpizzo
Ga. Southern- Tyson Summers out. Tee Martin has shown interest ( I forget who posted this, so h/t to somebody)
UTEP- Kugler out, Mike Price in for a repeat.
South Alabama- Joey Jones out.
UL-Lafayette- Who knew?


Secondary Market:

Oregon- Uncle Phil will have the sweatshops running OT to pay to replace Taggart. Leavitt?

In a category all their own:

Tennessee- After enduring Grudcon 1, Rocky Top suffers a case of Grudon dysfunction. Greg Schiano signs a MOU, Vols go absolutely ape**** with legislators, former players, talk show hosts and dog catchers protesting Schiano pedophile allegations. Schiano is told "no thanks" and Schiano's agent, in his best Ray Liotta voice from Goodfellas says "Screw you, pay me." Currie the AD, after having to **** backwards on the issue, is now searching, again. No way Gruden leaves his lofty perch to step in that collective pile of dog doo. Who would? A complete hot mess with a side of vitriol. Fun to watch, unless you are a Vol. Kiffin trolling them mercilessly. Food cart watching the city burn from afar.....UPDATE: Cutcliffe at Duke says no thanks. (h/t Ruckus). Now chasing Mike Gundy, who spurned them in 2012 (h/t Austin Cameron). UPDATE OF THE UPDATE: (h/t Serenity Buff) Mountains of cash being thrown at Gundy, and he is listening, btw, he's a man ya know. UPDATE, COMEDY VERSION: Gundy works UT like an old shoe, only to stay at Okie Lite. h/t cmgoods. No HC search has gone this badly in recent memory. Miles, Morris (h/t Tscheck) Brohm (h/t ahoelsken) are in play. One has to wonder how far down the list UT goes before MikMac is considered. They may truly end up with Dave Logan. No Brohm, despite earlier reports today, (h/r Tscheck, Austin Cameron), on to NCST's Doeren (h/t DuffMan). UPDATE: Doeren a no go. Sumlin reportedly not interested. AD Currie offered Leach, but had the carpet pulled from under him and was fired. Former HC Fulmer now the acting AD. Reports former AD Currie headed to Pullman to take on the WSU AD job. I can't keep up with this. It is an 11 out of 10 at this point. Fulmer rumored to be enamored with Les Miles. Stay tuned. UPDATE: the retread Fulmer (h/t Jens) now at AD looking hard at retread Les Miles. Other names: Chad Morris and Mike Norvell. UPDATE: Tennessee goes quiet for a while....



Other news:
TCU- Extended GPat trough 2024 h/t nik
TTU- KliffyK safe h/t onealcd
KU- Beaty confirmed to be back next year.
Mizzou- Barry Odom set for extension.
ISU- Campbell signs extension
Auburn- Malzahn signs extension which basically means he is in the clear until next October.
OSU- Gundy gets a $700K raise after jerking UT's chain. (h/t buffs 35)
CU- Brian Lindgren moves on to Oregon St.

Please forgive my attempts at humor, this stuff is highly amusing to me.
 
Taggart going to FSU is very bad for the PAC 12.

Let’s face it, the Big 10, ACC, and SEC are considered to be better conferences than the BIG 12 or PAC 12. This is because of bad TV times and east coast bias.
 
Taggart going to FSU is very bad for the PAC 12.

Let’s face it, the Big 10, ACC, and SEC are considered to be better conferences than the BIG 12 or PAC 12. This is because of bad TV times and east coast bias.
Why is that bad news for the Pac-12? Taggart is a better fit at FSU than he is at Oregon, just like Chip Kelly was a better fit as UCLA than he was at Florida. The Pac-12 still had some great coaches. I would argue Peterson and Shaw were top 10 and then Kelly was added all the while the best program/job in the conference hired an interim guy which probably won't last very long.
 
So they paid $12 million bucks to swap Todd with Herm and changed nothing else.
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Let's go Sparkles!!

Taggart seemed to be the real deal. All the options they are looking at seem to be long shots to be as good. Terrible change for the P12, good for CU.
 
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