When the college football season hits the field for the 2010 season things will look different on the sidelines let's take a quick look:
Pete Carroll - Left USC to become head coach for Seattle Seahawks. Wonder if it had anything to do with sanctions, loss of talent or any other NCAA issues.
Lane Kiffin - Left "Rocky Top" in the middle of the night for USC. Kinda like when the Colts left Baltimore. Held a press conference but didn't answer any questions from the media. For a guy with a big mouth, that in itself was impressive. Said "USC" was his dream job.
Urban Meyer - Quit on Friday. Came Back on Saturday. Taking a leave of absence until August, sighting health issues. Word out of Gainesville, still business as usual. Meyer's footprint still all over program. Downside for Gators for next season, a lot of talent leaving.
Bobby Bowden - Retired, if you want to call it that, from Florida State. Won his last game upsetting West Virginia in Gator Bowl.
Jimbo Fisher - No longer the head coach in waiting at FSU. He is now the shizz. Has come out of the gate strong as far as recruiting concerned.
Charlie Weiss - Fired at Notre Dame and is now on staff for Kansas City Chiefs. Didn't take long.
Mike Leach - Learned an important lesson. Pirates are forced to walk the plank. Fired at Texas Tech for stepping over the line for punishing a player who was injured. Didn't help matters that player was son of an ESPN College Football analysts. Can you say awkward? Leach now heading to court with Texas Tech.
Eric Mangino - Fired at Kansas for being abusive to players. Heard a rumor going to be new spokesperson for Jenny Craig.
Jim Leavitt - Fired from University of South Florida for assaulting (choking/slapping) during half time of a game . Player, first denied it happened and is now asking for an apology from Leavitt. Just like Leach, Leavitt and USF will be having some litigation going on.
Charlie Strong - New head man at Louisville replacing the fired Steve Kragthorpe.
Brian Kelly - Takes Cincy all the way to Sugar Bowl undefeated but leaves town before game to take over at Notre Dame. Cincy gets waxed by Gators and Tim Tebow.
Rich Brooks - Retires from Kentucky. Replaced by Joker Phillips. I'm serious no joke. Sorry it was just to easy to pass up on.
Al Groh - Fired from Virginia. Replaced by Mike London.
Tommy Tuberville - Finds himself back on the sidelines replacing Leach at Texas Tech.
Mark Snyder - Resigns from Marshall. Replaced by "Doc" Holiday. No not making this stuff up.
Turner Gill - Brought Buffalo back to life now gets a chance at Kansas replacing Mangino. Gill, if you remember, was a standout QB at Nebraska.
Butch Jones - Resigns at Central Michigan to become head coach at Cincy. Is replaced at Central Michigan by Dan Enos.
The biggest question mark though will be who is going to replace Kiffin at Tennessee? Early names include the usual suspects, Gary Patterson (TCU), is saying no, Chris Peterson (Boise State), Jon Gruden, has ties to UT, Kippy Brown (Interim Head Coach) and no Phillip Fulmer will not be coming back.
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ReplyDeleteCollege coaching changes happen every year, but this year it's like silly season in NASCAR.
We all should have seen Pete Carroll leaving USC for the NFL. He feels he has unfinished buisness in "The League". Losing records with the Jets and Pats. Every year his name comes up as a candidate for NFL opennings. 'Of course' pending sanctions against the university probably helped in the final decission.
Glad to see Lane Kiffin gone! Saw a headline that read "Kiffin FAILS - to move up".
Maybe Al Davis was right. "You can't believe a word he says".
I feel for the kids that committed to UT last year. These same kids could have signed with Florida, Alabama, LSU, Penn State, or Texas. Instead they sign with a coach that vanishes overnight.
There other names that are surfacing for the UT Job. One is David Cutcliff. He has many ties with the Volunteers as the offensive coordinator, coaching Peyton Manning. But Cutcliff is waiting for support from Fulmer, his long time friend. Look what he has done at Duke. Seems there was another coach that used success at Duke to land a great coaching job.
I hope he doesn't, he had the Gators # when he was at Mississippi, but he also had Eli Manning then. (And Ron Zook was the coach at Florida)
The second name I keep hearing is Will Muschamp at Texas, but he is "The coach in waiting" for the Longhorns.
The Mike Leach incident was wrong on every level. BUT....it also came out that the James kid was lazy and had a sense of intitlement because of who he was. That came form many of the players on the team.
The firing also came one day before he was to be paid an $800K bonus for staying the head coach for the entire Calender Year. We will soon see if the University saving the money was the right move.
Jim Leavett, like Leach was a coach that wears his emotions on his sleeve, and things like this happen to people that do. If it's true, he did have to go. Even though he built the program from scratch.
Bright side of this for USF is the hiring of Skip Holtz. His hiring should take the Bulls to the next level. Look what he did with ECU, and he didn't have the talent he will be able to bring to South Florida. He has already proved he can compete with the teams in the Big East.
Louisville made the best hire of the season. Charlie Strong will be the type coach they need. He his one of the best defensive coordinators, if not "THE best", in the Nation. He is a great recruiter, and motivator. This hire is long over due. Florida will miss him next year.
Joker Phillips was another "Coach in Waiting". So now we will find out if this "Coach in Waiting" deal works as we watch Kentucky and FSU over the next couple of years.
It's going to be strange seeing Turner Gill on a Big 12 sideline other than Nebraska!!!
As far Meyers on again, off again, on again, coaching at UF. He let emotions get in the way of his thought process. When it comes to our health, and our family, we all make emotional decissons that may not be the best for everyone involved.