Wow. Wasn’t that long ago that Dickert was an obscure short-term DC at Wyoming.
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2023-24 Coaching Carousel (Fitzgerald out, DC Braun interim at Northwestern)
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Wow. Wasn’t that long ago that Dickert was an obscure short-term DC at Wyoming.
SeanMSan
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But CU was scandal free…aside from a pearl clutching administration. MSU is a tight rope walk above a fiery pit of sexual misconduct of coaches and team doctors…etc.
The wild card with Smith is he played at Oregon State so he may not want to go anywhere else.
ahoelsken
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Elko's stock is high enough IMO to where he doesn't need to look at Michigan State or Northwestern. I think he might really like the part of the country he's in-he was the DC at Wake Forest before Kelly hired him at ND. Let's say for the sake of this post that Ferentz steps down at Iowa. That might be the kind of gig Elko leaves Duke for.
Mark Dantonio is back in some assistant HC/mentor role for MSU's staff. I wonder if he's not pushing their AD to hire one of his guys......like Pat Narduzzi.
Jonathan Smith has never coached outside of the PNW-Montana, Boise State, and UW. I don't know if I see him making a move to the SEC...but here's a thought with him. Can Chip Kelly survive UCLA possibly going off the rails in conference play? They have WSU and @OSU the next two weeks. They could lose both those games. They go to Stanford after that. Let's say that's a W. I think the game with us is a toss-up. UCLA could easily be a rather meh 4-4 going into November. Smith was born in Pasadena.
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Have no idea if any candidate fits, but Iowa probably hires in the family
ahoelsken
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That job might not be a great example-but my overall opinion of Elko is his stock is high enough to where he doesn't have to jump at an opening created by hazing or masturbation scandals.
'I don’t want to have regrets.' USC's Lincoln Riley tries to balance family and football
After the loss of mentors Dave Nichol and Mike Leach, USC coach Lincoln Riley has mulled early retirement and noted NFL coaches have better schedules.
www.latimes.com
Lincoln Riley might not be long for USC or maybe he will coach for awhile.
If you’re somebody worried about aTm poaching Prime, you probably want Jimbo out this year
I’m not of fan of people who make declarative statements about future coaching moves, but I feel pretty confident that Prime will never be the coach at Texas A&M.
You’re probably right, but they’ve been mentioned by fans and some CFB fringe media types as “imagine what Deion could do in recruiting at aTm”, so figured it’s relevant. We’re going to stress over any big job opening in the SEC
That fanbase would outright revolt if Prime was hired.
That's my thought too - but I think Prime has been in Texas enough that he wants no part of College Station, so I doubt it gets that far.
You know what, I believe Prime that he's in it for the longer haul, or at least until he gets us significantly turned around. He admittedly loves the process more than just the results. Going to aTm or LSU would be a quick turnaround for him, not much of a process as those two schools haven't dropped off far, they just lack a coach. That would take Prime 3-6 months to fix. Seems like less of a process to me. He doesn't seem driven solely by the $ either, so he's not gonna pick cash over his values and faith. I'm not saying Prime is here forever but I can guarandamntee you he's not pulling a Midnight Mel. Go Buffs!
Hidden Fees
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CP wants big personal challenges. The downtrodden, the impoverished. I worry about about a team/program where people would tell him, "you can't win there"
Soooo Colorado?
Where does the A&M job rank? Is it a tier 1 job?
I know CP isn’t married to CU, but he isn’t leaving for a University where boosters stick their nose into coach business. The boosters at aTm would hate that CP would completely blow off their input. Not sure what LSU boosters are like, but if it’s anything like normal SEC programs then I don’t think it’s a fit for CP.
I think CP jumps to the SEC only if one of the programs is so down trodden that they are willing to hand him the keys, then step aside and stay out of the way. This isn’t the DNA of the SEC.
I think CP jumps to the SEC only if one of the programs is so down trodden that they are willing to hand him the keys, then step aside and stay out of the way. This isn’t the DNA of the SEC.
Tier 2.
Duded is mostly right, but geographically College Station kind of sucks, and it's surrounded by other solid to great programs in TCU, Houston, and Texas that are all in better towns. There's more ways to lose a recruiting battle at aTm than just about anywhere else. Almost analogous to basketball recruiting at Wake.
Obviously, Jimbo has shown it's possible to be great at recruiting there, but it's by no means "turnkey" as dude was saying.
How did this guy keep getting OC jobs?
He's an excellent QB Coach. He fails every time he's promoted above that. That's going to limit his future opportunities since there aren't a lot of situations where the OC doesn't work directly with the QB room.
I really thought they had a chance to be a pretty good P5 program, they really messed up by parlaying their success with Fickell to hiring Satterfield.
ahoelsken
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Other thing is I don't think this carousel will have a lot of openings.....I mean lets look at the SEC and Big 10 in particular. If Leipold wants into the Big 10, now might be the time to go.
Big 10-Northwestern's open right now, but they're 4-4 with winnable games against Purdue and Illinois left. David Braun's making a hell of a case for COY in the Big 10, and he's making it harder for the dumb****s who run that school to move on from him with every game. He doesn't have the stink of the hazing scandal on him because he got there in January, and that team has absolutely overachieved. If he doesn't get that gig, he'd make a hell of a replacement for Charles Kelly here. Michigan State is open. Indiana has to open at some point, but what else is there in that league? Iowa? Likely stays in house. If you add the four Pac teams who are joining that league......SC could open if an NFL owner is dumb enough to take a chance on Lincoln Riley right now.
In the SEC.....Arkansas? South Carolina?
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True but there are always random jobs that open due to coaches going to NFL, retiring, surprising firings, etc.
I think there’s a real possibility that Michigan is open, along with USC. Could aTm get rid of Jimbo?
Then there’s the domino effect if a few bigger jobs open
ahoelsken
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Going 7-5 with the greatest college QB since Luck is a fireable offense in my view.
Riley's a ****ing fraud.