It's that time of year again. Les Miles has been hired at Kansas, Texas Tech, Louisville, Colorado and Maryland all have openings and Mack Brown is going back to UNC? Duke's got to make a move and hire Larry Coker or someone now.

that is impressive. Mack Part 2 is going to be a disaster. these niggas aint even do their due diligence on the market just to see what's out there.

laughing when I heard UNC was bring Mack Brown back. Dude looked like the living embodiment of "I'm too old for this shit", 8 years ago. Strangely...he's the same age as Saban. I guess winning gives you that glow.

>Strangely...he's the same age as Saban.
>I guess winning gives you that glow.

I seriously would've guessed he had a decade on Saban.

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the spin on IC right now is that Fedora burned all our bridges with NC high schools so Mack is supposed to get us back in their good graces and set us up for the next coach.

he's going to take the UNC-Charlotte job so he'll have some FBS experience when Mack either gets canned, retires or croaks.

this is going to be good shit no matter what

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ECU will probably fire Scottie Montgomery after next week

good guy and I liked the hire (Duke OC under Cutcliffe), but Pirates have been just flat out bad for three years now

he's 2-2 against the ACC, funnily enough

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/sarcasm

seems like he is one of the most 'hire-able' people in CFB or NFL right now

Possible coach-in-waiting after they fire Helton next year?

should help with recruiting too

not surprising since he was demoted midseason. he went from a longshot Tennessee HC candidate to out of favor pretty quickly...now he won't even get a look as Tennessee's offensive coordinator due to his ties to USC (former OC Tyson Helton was the QB coach with Martin at USC in 2017 and then led a bad UT offense in 2018).

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he was our best coach since Bobby Dodd, and did things with nobodies that Gailey and O'Leary couldnt do with blue chippers

i keep seeing Ken Whisenhunt's name and it makes me real uneasy. Monken and Nieumatololo HAVE to be the first calls, but KN may not want to be Butch Jones to PJ's Brian Kelly. there are talented option QBs on the roster, but nothing else. i suppose a spread n shred could work, but a "modern" offense leads us to 0-12 next year at worst, or perpetual 8-4 at best.

3 Coastal titles, 1 ACC chip, 2 Orange Bowls (1 win), beat UGA 3 times after Gailey never did, 5-7 record vs Dabo which has to be #1 in the conference by a mile

Heisman, Dodd, Johnson, Ross.

wish id been in school while he had been there.

Just not a good year for Louisville in any respects.

But yo! JB about to lock down this top 25 class and adding to it!
I just want two more years, not being greedy.

He's also getting a top 10/15 CFB salary now and I'm totally good with it. Mitch Daniels (only Republican I like) and our AD have not been playing around.

I don't know, a successful young coach who is already in my state and has a current relationship with local high schools would seem to be a no-brainer, but when you've got a chance to hire a guy who hasn't coached in five years . . .

Dude basically bought himself a job.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tonyvanetti/status/1067987642371977218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw



might be a current student pulling a prank, but can fully believe it's a message board warrior angry at the Brohm's Mecca

Ok, apparently it was a tweet that the school reacted to, bad attempt at a joke. But the fact that he/they went there these days is something...

this is the best possible outcome

i dusted off a bunch of my old UNC forum logins just to read up on the BTS stuff all week and i just could not believe this might happen.

https://247sports.com/college/north-carolina/Article/Greg-Robinson-No-Longer-Option-for-UNC-Defensive-Coordinator-Role--125626761/

USU was third in the nation in scoring this past year.

Colorado to hire UGA DC Mel Tucker
Maryland very strongly looking at Bama OC Mike Locksley.

Locksley was a trainwreck at UNM, but that was years ago and he's got Saban's blessing and developed their first genuine stud QB. He could make the Terps a consistent bowl team at least.

We had him as an OC years ago and I think if the school could do it all over they would’ve just kept him as a head coach

I like that he's won championships at nearly all of his stops. Plenty of head coaching experience, which was important since his predecessor at ECU had none. Born in North Carolina and been a HS and college coach there for years, which is huge when it comes to in-state recruiting.

At least he can hold on to his purple and gold ties.

It's been time for him to step down, but guy is an absolute legend in the Big 12. The only reason K-State has any Fiesta or Cotton Bowl appearances.

Either Brent Venables or Jim Leavitt would be there after the bowl season if the money was right, but they both make a boatload currently.

Future Cincinnati coach

Pretty good plan B for the Cards

https://twitter.com/BruceFeldmanCFB/status/1069993807289171968

a rhesus monkey wearing a usc cap could convince players to play there. its not hard to recruit


smart hire by lynn swann

I'll admit I'm a LITTLE surprised that they're officially replacing the coach that got a player killed with the guy who punched one of his assistants, if only for the optics. But he's got that Saban shine on him now and it was long enough ago. If Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian could keep getting jobs, no reason he shouldn't, plus he's more familiar with the area than most.

NewBorn-something if I recall correctly

dude broke down the whole dmv fb recruiting scene beautifully...i thought of him when i heard about the locksley hiring

i hope he does well

I guess they wanted someone people knew and who had connections and personal ties to the DMV. It sure wasn't much of a "search", they grabbed him quickly.

It got Lane Kiffin a job, it will work for anyone.

Just in case you were wondering if a school run by Jerry Falwell Jr was still completely morally bankrupt.

GT hired a guy named Geoff, he was at Temple the last couple years, they were pretty good in the American under him.

Defensive guy, so who knows what kind of offense they'll have.

he was our recruiting coordinator when we signed our best class of the last 15-20 years (the Josh Nesbitt, Jonathan Dwyer, Morgan Burnett, Derrick Morgan group) and he knows Tech.

But his actual teams have not blown me away. We shredded his Miss St defense in the Orange Bowl 4 years ago, and then the Rudock-led Michigan team in 2015 shredded his UF defense in that Citrus Bowl.

So...i dunno. We are pretty niche-built roster wise on offense but hes already talking "NFL style" offense. I love his attitude and approach, but im not sure about the method.

Im in hardcore wait and see mode.

We wish you the best in your future endeavors.
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Though I'm sure getting obliterated by Army might have been the straw that broke the camel's back. I hope he gets on somewhere.

Apparently the AD was blindsided by this, so it doesn't sound like he was forced out.

>Apparently the AD was blindsided by this, so it doesn't sound
>like he was forced out.

i dont believe he will stay retired though

and a staff shake-up was heavily hinted at by booster and the admin.

Richt is a different guy though, so I can see him just saying "nah" and riding off into the sunset.

His refusal to change it has caused him to lose out on some top recruits and top transfer Kelly Bryant.

Apparently he was asked about his offense and his response was, "These plays have worked for years..." He basically refuses to believe it's stagnant.

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wow, gut-punch for Temple

im gonna be salty about not hiring Jeff Monken for *years*

No way would Diaz have taken the Temple job if he had known Richt would be done.

Low key that athletic department has figured out how to maximize football success in a tough environment.

Got $2 million from GT to hire one coach and $4 million from Miami to hire another.

nothing like one more kick in the nuts as the season winds down

whether or not the defense was all that it was cracked up to be is a different story.

this issue has deceased.

mattison's track record is terrific but he's a tad old

hes probably the best position coach in the country. what UMs D-Line has been during his tenure...fuck.

>what
>UMs D-Line has been during his tenure...fuck.

>nothing like one more kick in the nuts as the season winds
>down

Jay Glazer seems to think so

https://twitter.com/JayGlazer/status/1082368963663736833
I’m hearing Kliff Kingsbury is interviewing with NFL teams, which likely means he has resigned as USC offensive coordinator. USC was blocking him from interviewing foe NFL head coaching openings @NFLonFOX

He is white and really good looking, but really? After underperforming (and getting fired) at Texas tech?

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--A-6kwF5N--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/o72g1zffzy31sw8ej6gf.jpg

It's not clear if he's even a good college head coach.

smart offensive guy, maybe the premier one in college, so I get that part

but he had very little pressure on his shoulders at Tech and still couldn't even get them to .500 the last three years

what's he going to do if the Jets start 1-3? Lubbock was a safety bubble for him, and even that popped

got the biggest fish of the offseason coordinator pool and now is worse off than when he started looking

kinda interesting given that Grinch accomplished nothing as a coach and as a recruiter at OSU and his position unit (safeties) was absolutely wretched along with some horrible personnel decisions.

I guess Schiano takes the blame for everything here?

he's also used to coordinating a defense that has to deal with a quick-possession offense, which he'll deal with in Norman.

we'll find out if he was a symptom of Ohio State's 2018 defense or just stuck in a bad situation.

>I guess Schiano takes the blame for everything here?

more or less. but either way Schiano was only at Ohio State because of Meyer, so had the Buckeyes been good on defense this season he'd still probably be out.

>. but either way Schiano was only at Ohio State
>because of Meyer, so had the Buckeyes been good on defense
>this season he'd still probably be out.

>>. but either way Schiano was only at Ohio State
>>because of Meyer, so had the Buckeyes been good on defense
>>this season he'd still probably be out.

>>>. but either way Schiano was only at Ohio State
>>>because of Meyer, so had the Buckeyes been good on defense
>>>this season he'd still probably be out.
>

like...that was openly admitted by both of them. Schiano kept his name warm at a high profile program and Meyer got an associate HC to CEO his defense.

now that Meyer is gone, the deal doesn't make sense for Ohio State, Day or Schiano. regardless of the on-field results, Day has no connection to Schiano and isn't going to let his one (only) big HC shot go up in flames or undermined by a gruff veteran who has been a NFL HC.

likewise, Schiano has bigger aspirations than caddying a 39-year-old's college defense and isn't going to wait around and get blamed a la Mike Stoops and Lincoln Riley.

>like...that was openly admitted by both of them. Schiano kept
>his name warm at a high profile program and Meyer got an
>associate HC to CEO his defense.

I've never once heard the suggestion that meyer was doing schiano a fire by hiring him a la zach smith or billy davis.

and his defenses were very productive up until this year. its not like he wasn't carrying his weight up until this year.

if the defense didnt require a full house cleaning i see no reason why he couldn't have stayed.

it was a mutually beneficially agreement. but almost entirely based on the relationship between Meyer and Schiano. I mean shit, at the time Fickell was still the DC and Schiano took a co-coordinator role.

2015: "I had been a head coach for 13 years and then after the NFL had done some TV work with ESPN and with NFL Network," said Schiano. "Truthfully, as an assistant, it really would only have been with very few people. And Coach Meyer being at the head of the list."

"I have a history with Coach Meyer that goes back pretty far and we’re both closely aligned in our beliefs." Schiano said. "So, I think it’s going to be a great situation."

2017: "(Schiano) was offered two head coaching jobs -- two significant head coaching jobs -- and he made a decision to come back," Meyer said. "I've known Greg for a long time -- and he's a head coach. He will be a head coach (again)."

"I'm going to keep him as long as I can," Meyer said. "I thought he was one of the best I've ever been around. He's a little better than that. That's how good of a coach he is."

and while neither of us can prove this i think Schiano (and Grinch) for that matter could've and would've been retained had things gone well this past season. instead it was a clusterfuck and I'm not sure who is responsible for what. I will say that whoever started Jahsen Wint (#23) at safety should've been fired on the spot and barred from campus.


>I mean
>shit, at the time Fickell was still the DC and Schiano took a
>co-coordinator role.

Nah, Fickell was co-DC in name only. That was Chris Ash's defense.

Tracy Claeys is likely just as good of a coach or better.

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by all accounts a great hire. really weird to see all these mich guys jump to OSU.

hard to imagine that this doesn't have something to do with harbaugh's murky future at mich.

I'm neutral to the move, although I thought he did a solid job back in his first stint with Dooley.

Georgia's passing offense wasn't as good as the talent these past two seasons, however. and Tennessee will not have the personnel to overwhelm teams like Georgia has.

Not even passing judgement, but old Jimbo always makes me laugh, funny and funny-looking dude.

He does seems to do his best work early, his last couple of years at Purdue were very lackluster and overly conservative.

Only 56? Interesting, he was only 35 in 97? Crazy, he never looked that young.

Hopefully Pruitt doesn't handcuff him too much.
This does give me flashbacks to the worst UT defense I've ever seen under Sunseri. Chaney would put up like 35 points a game and still lose.

interesting, thought it was a possibility with Fields joining but I didn't think he would make the call for it

losing another potential QB competition candidate (after this Tathan Tate Taterson kid talked shit and ran off)

OSU would need another transfer, they'd be pretty thin behind Fields

Maybe this means Jalen Hurts is going to Maryland.

If I was Hurts it would be Miami or Oklahoma, he doesn't have a chance to win shit in College Park with Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State in the same division

Due to them hiring Bama's former QB coach and OC, respectively.

Edit, nevermind, it looks like's OU bound.

it's just not gonna work

QB1 was a long time ago now...

also scary that OSU took out it's best qb of all time to put in Tate against mich. that prob cost us our 70 spot.

big time get for Pruitt. and another excellent recruiter. will be fun to have him on staff before his next move.