2017 college football coaching carousel thread

The interim UCLA coach is Jedd Fisch, not to be confused with LA DJ Jed The Fish.

 

Oops.

Is Jim Mora whistling through his final games, or are there reasons he should remain UCLA football coach?

Here’s guessing he knows that given the muddled state of the UCLA athletic program, it would take some sort of massive meltdown in these last two games before the Bruins would fire him.

First, there is his contract, which runs through 2021 and has a buyout clause of about $12 million. How big is that? It’s nearly $4 million more than the recent buyout of Tennesseecoach Butch Jones in the football-mad Southeastern Conference. Unless the generous Casey Wasserman wants to dig even deeper into his donor pockets, there simply aren’t enough fanatically insane Bruins boosters who have the impetus to write that check.

Second, Mora’s legacy, while diminished on the football field, remains intact in the fundraising sector so vital to the Bruins program. His “Bruin Revolution’’ may feel dead, but brick-and-mortar results of that revolution remain, and that gives him some equity.

Finally, he is also blessed with Bruins athletic leadership that, in what likely will be the final years of Dan Guerrero’s career, just doesn’t seem to want to get its hands dirty.

Considering Guerrero gave Mora that bafflingly sweet deal, it won’t be easy for him to tear it up and admit to the third failed football coaching hire in his tenure. And, face it, with school officials still undecided on the fate of the three admitted thieves from their basketball team, are they really going to want a football upheaval right now?

 

If Kansas State really wants to hire a coach's son nowhere near as accomplished as his dad, hire that petty prick who just got fired.

 

My favorite part: Mora got fired on his birthday.

 

Listening to everyone on here, it's as if UCLA is the West Coast's Temple.

 

Is $12 million the largest publicly known or reported buyout in college football history? Would have to be pretty close to the top spot, wouldn't you think?

 

Probably pretty close. Oregon owed Mark Helfrich $11.6 million over three years when it fired him last year. He seems in no hurry to find another coaching job.

 

Also this:

 

Poor Chip, caught in the middle of a bidding war like that.

 

Either way, he's not gonna need to ship the snowblower.