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It's time to set up the coaching carousel! P4 head coaching jobs will probably be very sparse this year, as athletic departments will be on the hook to pay players and are apparently no longer willing to pay the monstrous buyouts that many of their coaches have. But there may still be plenty of action in the Group of 5 (and among coordinators). Here's the current list of FBS HC moves (I'll update it as it spins along):

  • App State: ~~Shawn Clark~~ replaced by Dowell Loggains (South Carolina OC)
  • Ball State: ~~Mike Neu~~ replaced by Mike Uremovich (Butler HC)
  • Central Michigan: ~~Jim McElwain~~ (retired) replaced by Matt Drinkall (Army OC, Kansas Wesleyan HC)
  • Charlotte: ~~Biff Poggi~~ replaced by Tim Albin (Ohio HC)
  • East Carolina: ~~Mike Houston~~ replaced by Blake Harrell (ECU DC & interim HC)
  • FAU: ~~Tom Herman~~ replaced by Zach Kittley (Texas Tech OC)
  • FIU: ~~Mike MacIntyre~~ replaced by Willie Simmons (Duke RBs, FAMU HC, PVAMU HC)
  • Fresno State: ~~Jeff Tedford~~ (resigned in off-season) replaced by Matt Entz (USC LBs, North Dakota State HC)
  • Jacksonville State: ~~Rich Rodriguez~~ replaced by OPEN
  • Kennesaw State: ~~Brian Bohannon~~ replaced by Jerry Mack (Jaguars RBs, Tennessee RBs, NC Central HC)
  • Marshall: ~~Charles Huff~~ replaced by Tony Gibson (NC State DC, West Virginia DC)
  • New Mexico: ~~Bronco Mendenhall~~ replaced by Jason Eck (Idaho HC)
  • North Carolina: ~~Mack Brown~~ replaced by Bill Belichick (Patriots HC)
  • Ohio: ~~Tim Albin~~ replaced by Brian Smith (Ohio OC)
  • Purdue: ~~Ryan Walters~~ replaced by Barry Odom (UNLV HC, Missouri HC)
  • Rice: ~~Mike Bloomgren~~ replaced by Scott Abell (Davidson HC)
  • Sam Houston: ~~K.C. Keeler~~ replaced by Phil Longo (Wisconsin OC)
  • Southern Miss: ~~Will Hall~~ replaced by Charles Huff (Marshall HC, Alabama AHC)
  • Temple: ~~Stan Drayton~~ replaced by K.C. Keeler (Sam Houston HC, Delaware HC)
  • Tulsa: ~~Kevin Wilson~~ replaced by Tre Lamb (East Tennessee State HC, Gardner-Webb HC)
  • UCF: ~~Gus Malzahn~~ replaced by Scott Frost (Nebraska HC, UCF HC)
  • UMass: ~~Don Brown~~ replaced by Joe Harasymiak (Rutgers DC)
  • UNLV: ~~Barry Odom~~ replaced by Dan Mullen (Florida HC, Mississippi State HC)
  • Utah State: ~~Blake Anderson~~ replaced by Bronco Mendenhall (New Mexico HC, UVA HC, BYU HC)
  • Wake Forest: ~~Dave Clawson~~ replaced by Jake Dickert (Washington State HC)
  • Washington State: ~~Jake Dickert~~ replaced by OPEN
  • West Virginia: ~~Neal Brown~~ replaced by Rich Rodriguez (Jacksonville State HC, Arizona HC, Michigan HC, WVU HC)

Other notes: A lot of "hot seats" (e.g. Arkansas, Baylor, Florida, ~~West Virginia~~) probably cooled off by winning enough games. ~~Mack Brown at UNC claims he's not retiring.~~ Deion Sanders at CU claims he does not intend to go to the NFL.

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[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 1 points 6 days ago

Jax State to grab Charles Kelly according to the Cure Bowl Broadcast

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hoping off the gus bus to get back into the scott pott? Interesting choice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That caught me by surprise. I thought they'd let him retire on his own terms, but I guess they were hoping it would be this year and his statement otherwise forced their hand. I'll always be grateful for what Mack did for Texas, but I also resent how poor the culture became at the end of his tenure here. UNC seemed to be heading down a similar path.

[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is Lincoln Riley sitting on a heating pad? I feel like he should be, but at the same time I just feel so much indifference from west coast schools these days. Like even Oregon seems to be j chillin. But the original point stands, Lincoln Riley has been underperforming since his arrival and USC seems deflated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

They looked good yesterday and have lost most of their games by close scores. I think he has next year to prove something and if not he's gone.

[–] wjrii 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assume that chilling or not, Oregon is pretty happy with Lanning right now.

For USC, I think there's some truth (though potentially more clear-eyed than Sooner fans would like to admit) to the idea that Riley didn't want to deal with the SEC from Norman. In a normal human world, that makes sense, but CFB head coaches are nutjobs in a constant pressure cooker, and decision making that comes off as normal is probably a competitive disadvantage. Dude is on the Kingsbury track, just after a higher level of CFB success.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think the Kingsbury path has closed. At the time Kliff made the jump, the NFL had yet to fully adopt air raid concepts. I don't watch much of the league, but it seems like now they've mastered it so I don't really know what he has to offer. I'd be kind of surprised if he landed an OC job in the NFL, let alone a HC position.

[–] WVbrU 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This thread actually tipped me off to this, but I'll comment here for discussion. WVU decides to bring back Rich Rod to replace Neal Brown!

https://www.wdtv.com/2024/12/11/west-virginia-hires-rich-rodriguez-36th-head-football-coach/

[–] WVbrU 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know how I feel about this. I'm one of the fans that are still bitter about the way he left. Regardless, I worry his moment has passed and we can't get that lightning back into the bottle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] g0d0fm15ch13f 2 points 2 weeks ago