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On 10/22/2024 at 3:53 PM, Funk Doctor Spock said:

Arky will NEVER succeed no matter who is the coach. The are perpetual bottom dwellers for all eternity. 

Because he went to Penn, duh. 

TIL Trent Dilfer is a HC I'm college 

Only if you have an hour and a half to listen to him talk 

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, X, X, 1, 1. 1, 1, 1, 

It had to be done. 

There's even blonde, brunette and redhead representation. Not going thru all 10 but tall brunette with the quads is 1 and tall blonde far right is 2. 

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5 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

Herman on the hot seat???

https://www.burntorangenation.com/2024/11/18/24299349/texas-longhorns-tom-herman-florida-atlantic-owls

Yep...

FAU: The Owls are firing head coach Tom Herman, sources tell 247Sports' Matt Zenitz, Richard Johnson and Chris Hummer. The Owls are 2-6 in 2024 and are 6-14 overall in Herman's tenure. Herman is the former head coach at Texas and Houston.  

 

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Yep...

FAU: The Owls are firing head coach Tom Herman, sources tell 247Sports' Matt Zenitz, Richard Johnson and Chris Hummer. The Owls are 2-6 in 2024 and are 6-14 overall in Herman's tenure. Herman is the former head coach at Texas and Houston.  

 

I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

I did think he'd have them at boring 6 win-ness consistently given his penchant for making every game close for better or worse, but he seems to have fully tanked his career. 

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Coaching Carousel: What We’re Hearing At FootballScoop

Revenue sharing, roster sizes and more loom over job cycle

John Brice           

Uncertainty.

Not just in the futures of college coaches and their support staff members, but most specifically as it pertains to revenue-sharing, potential roster-expansion and how it might all shake out.

So, Florida is preparing to stick with Billy Napier. The Gators haven’t quit and indeed earned bowl eligibility for the second time in three seasons under Napier with Saturday’s win against slumping LSU.

Similarly, sources last week and into this week tell FootballScoop that Arkansas is preparing to stick with Sam Pittman, barring something unforeseen. The Razorbacks have a top-10 win this year at home against Tennessee and should earn bowl eligibility this week at home against Louisiana Tech before closing with border rival Missouri on the road.

At North Carolina, all eyes are on the 73-year-old Mack Brown, whose team has won three-straight games to earn bowl eligibility. The Tar Heels close with a road game at Boston College before their home finale against North Carolina State, which sources emphasize to FootballScoop is a very personally important game to Brown.

Additionally, it’s worth monitoring things at Central Florida where a 3-0 beginning is now a 4-6 reality with a road game at West Virginia and home finale against Utah. Malzahn, 59, is well-positioned to retire if he chooses to do so.

As FootballScoop has reported since last fall, Central Michigan continues to be amidst a probe into the presence of Connor Stalions on the team’s sideline in its game against Michigan State and who knew and how it transpired to have who was a then-Michigan full-time staffer on the team’s sideline for that contest.

The Chippewas are mired in a five-game losing streak, at the bottom of the MAC standings and sources tell FootballScoop believe that Jim McElwain is likely to step aside at season’s end.

Charles Huff has been superb this season at Marshall, has the Herd atop the Sun Belt Conference Eastern Division standings and should be undefeated in league play if not for a late letdown against Georgia Southern. The Herd have won six of their last seven and control their destiny to play for the Sun Belt Conference crown.

They are positioned for a fourth bowl in as many seasons under Huff, who is still on an original four-year deal that expires in early 2025.

Southern Miss: The Golden Eagles parted weeks ago with Will Hall and have moved deep into their search process. Once considered arguably among the top non-power conference football jobs, Southern Miss has slipped throughout the past decade-plus. Facilities and funding are key issues for the school, and it’s a job made tougher by Lane Kiffin’s ability to steer flagship school Ole Miss into the upper echelon of the national college football landscape. If the Golden Eagles can land him, Derrick Nix might be the top candidate, per sources. He's a former star running back at Southern Miss who spent more than 15 seasons in-state as an assistant at Ole Miss before garnering the offensive coordinator role this season at Auburn.

Georgia's Todd Hartley, the Bulldogs' assistant head coach and tight ends coach, also is an intriguing name at Southern Miss, sources tell FootballScoop. 

East Carolina: Maybe the best job thus far to open up, the Pirates have canvassed college football in their search, which features prominent names with direct ties to the school such as Garrett Riley and Joe Sloan, the offensive play-callers at Clemson and LSU, respectively, to sitting head coaches such as Western Kentucky’s Tyson Helton and, FootballScoop has been told, Georgia Southern’s Clay Helton as well, though Tyson Helton has been considered to be much more deeply involved, per sources. 

Skip Holtz is a name also linked to the ECU job, a spot where he won 38 games in five years from 2005-09 and also led the Pirates to four-straight bowl games.

But perhaps interim head coach Blake Harrell, who's been the program's defensive coordinator the past five seasons, is going to make the search moot. Harrell has guided the Pirates to three consecutive wins and bowl eligibility still with two games, at North Texas and home against Navy, remaining on their schedule. Plus, ECU has offensive coordinator John David Baker, a Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weis Jr. protegè who's helped the offense score 28 or more points in six games already this season. 

Rice: After firing Mike Bloomgren amidst a disappointing season that appeared promising with almost 20 returning starters, Rice has vetted a number of significant candidates and particularly have explored a number of offensive coaches. Sources tell FootballScoop that LSU offensive coordinator Joe Sloan, SMU offensive coordinator Casey Woods and Oregon assistant Drew Mehringer, who is a Midland, Texas, native and has already coached in the state at both Houston and Texas. FootballScoop also was told that Nebraska defensive coordinator Tony White has been vetted by the school, which also looked at Holtz. Former Washington State coach Nick Rolovich has spoken with Rice officials about the job.

Multiple sources tell FootballScoop that K.C. Keeler is of prime interest to Rice officials. Keeler's coached the past 11 years in the Lone Star State and has Sam Houston State at eight wins on the season with the potential to win out and play for the Conference USA title. He's deftly navigated the program's transition from FCS to FBS across the past couple of seasons. 

Kennesaw State: Tre Lamb, Buster Faulkner, Drew Cronic and Jerry Mack are among those coaches sources indicate to FootballScoop that already are or will be in the mix. Folks directly involved in the Kennesaw State search already have spoken to multiple candidates, either by phone or Zoom, FootballScoop has learned. Hartley could be a dynamic fit in this post, but Kennesaw State is going to have to show its next head coach an extremely elevated financial commitment; the position has previously been among the five lowest-paying FBS jobs. 

Ball State has been an attractive Group of Five job in the past; an assistant such as Ohio State offensive line coach Justin Frye could be a very strong play for the Cardinals. Frye is an Indiana native who’s worked extremely closely with both Chip Kelly and Ryan Day across the past seven seasons of his coaching career. 

Indiana defensive coordinator Bryant Haines absolutely is a name to watch with this job; he's a former all-conference linebacker at Ball State who started all four years of his career before he graduated and transitioned into coaching. 

What Haines, under the guidance of head coach Curt Cignetti, has helped the Hoosiers do this season is merely the biggest story in the sport. Undefeated Indiana has the nation's No. 7 scoring defense at least than 14 points per game and the No. 3 unit in total defense at just 255.5 yards allowed per game. 

Another name to watch is Notre Dame assistant head coach/running backs coach Deland McCullough, who has made clear his desire to be a head coach and who is a former MAC player who starred at Miami (Ohio), had a brief professional playing career and also won a Super Bowl as the running backs coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Also, Cory Sanders -- the assistant head coach and safeties coach at Pittsburgh -- has previous head coaching experience in Indiana as an NCAA Division II leader. Billy Cosh, the first-year Stony Brook head coach, previously was on staff at Indiana and has engineered one of college football's most momentous turnarounds in his debut season atop Stony Brook. 

Ole Miss special teams coordinator Jake Schoonover also is a name to watch at Ball State. A former Bowling Green assistant coach, Schoonover has blossomed in recent years as one of the sport’s top up-and-coming coordinators. In 2022 under Butch Jones at Arkansas State, Schoonover had multiple top-35 units nationally for an Arkansas State program that struggled in many other facets.

His Rebels special teams units have been dynamic since he teamed with Kiffin prior to the 2023 season. Ole Miss is ranked No. 3 nationally in net punting and No. 8 in kickoff return defense; the aggregate efficiency ratings show Ole Miss as college football’s No. 4 special teams unit.

It’s still extremely early in the process at both Temple and Florida Atlantic, but a couple points to consider:

Bowling Green coach Scot Loeffler has the Falcons in position to potentially be in the MAC Championship and is bowl eligible for a third-straight year; he's a former Temple offensive coordinator. But sources Monday tell FootballScoop that the Temple search is likely to have a strong focus on Elijah Robinson, a former Owls assistant who climbed to the role of defensive run game coordinator.

At FAU, a couple of extremely bright offensive minds could be factors in Charlie Weis Jr., a former offensive coordinator there under Lane Kiffin. Also, Faulkner has turned heads nationally with his work orchestrating the Georgia Tech offense.

It will be imperative for the next head coach to zero in on the finer details of his contract, because FAU officials have deployed one of the industry's more bizarre clauses:

If FAU terminates a head coach with time remaining on his contract and without cause, that head coach must agree to be reassigned to a different position within the athletics department in order to receive his full buyout; otherwise the school is obligated to pay just 20 weeks of severance pay.

"They basically tried to.reassign Willie Taggart to be a stadium janitor after they fired him," a source with direct knowledge told FootballScoop. 

Here is the clause:

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