2017 college football coaching carousel thread

From what I have heard Chip Kelly is still very close to his high school friends and is very private, which is probably why he went back to NH.

 

Yeah, but covering NHIAA soccer championships at Stellos is kind of cool.

 

I assume Kelly lives in the Durham area near UNH, which is a pretty place.

 

Unlike college, EVERYBODY in the NFL has a billionaire owner. Kind of levels out the playing field.

 

What about those buyouts actually paid out?

 

Dan Guerrero is being allowed to hire his fourth head football coach - madness. The sadder stat is that none of his hires have achieved the lofty success of Bob Toledo (49-32), who he inherited and fired.

 

How many ADs have whacked three of their own hires in either football or basketball? Can't be terribly many.

 

Not saying Guerrero doesn't run a strong athletic department when you look at the broader successes, (non-revenue sports), I think at least one NCAA title every year - a total of 21 during his tenure - but I love his wikipedia entry
"On April 25, 2002, Guerrero was named UCLA's Director of Athletics, effectively placing UCLA on double, secret, self-imposed probation which vastly limited its success on and off the field of competition. Many USC alumni and fans hold Guerrero in high regard for his ability to suppress the success of UCLA Athletics."

 

I'm told that Dorrell was hired by the chancellor and Guerrero had little to no say in that decision. So that one's not on him, but Neuheisel and Mora are on him.
Toledo lost the team in the debacle involving Miami and the hurricane postponement. There was racial tension. The offense was snipping at the defense. Toledo didn't know how to deal with it. He also couldn't recruit.

 

I wasn't defending Toledo (though he was the last HC to take the team to a Rose Bowl - and he won it)- it doesn't seem to matter who gets hired at UCLA, they have enough success to think they could mean business, then they fall back.
I kind of think Kelly fits the profile as well. He will make a splash. (maybe they beat Oklahoma on the road next year) then lose a game against an Arizona school or Utah and a top Northern division school and boom - they're playing in late December in Texas or the Bay Area.

 

Can you elaborate on the Miami hurricane postponement debacle? I am unfamiliar but curious.

 

Jeremy Foley had to fire Zook and Muschamp and would have had to fire McElwain if he had lasted one more year. Foley sure lived off that Meyer hire for a long time. Whiffed on the other three.