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Running 2015 College Football Coaching Carousel Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Armchair_QB, Aug 28, 2015.

  1. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Jayhawks relying heavily on senior leadership this season.

     
  2. Layman

    Layman Well-Known Member

    No clue if there are any "skeletons", particularly since Illinois can't afford to hire a rotten human, but I'm seeing Schiano mentioned quite a bit. From a football standpoint, at least, it makes some sense.
     
  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I think if Illinois developed a freakish offense like those found in the Big 12 it might be a draw - of course I don't know what offenses Midwest high schools are running. Illinois doesn't have the tradition of Michigan where a RichRod makeover would cause much of a stir.
     
  4. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    It certainly makes sense that they should NOT go with a conventional pro-style offense with limited spread elements in the mold of most of the other B1G teams, since they'd be going head to head in the recruiting wars for all the same players against a bunch of more established programs. Maybe they should go full Air Raid and try to do the June Jones type of thing.

    The old myth is that B1G teams can't go with pass crazy offense because weather gets bad late in the season, but with warming trends in recent decades that's a crock -- most teams go the whole year without seeing a snowflake. At worst you gotta play a game or two in 35-degree temperatures.
     
  5. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Northwestern tried to do that for a while and had reasonable success, but never really established itself as more than an 8- or 9-win team (they did win 10 games one year).

    For Illinois, that would be pretty good though.
     
  6. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Rested and ready.

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    Also should be considered:

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  7. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Or they could just go to Bristol, Conn., or Charlotte and look around for 15 seconds and find a half-dozen people desperate enough to get back into the game. Everybody here knows the names. But how desperate must you be to take on a gig where the AD, nor the Provost nor the Chancellor -- the three highest-ranking administrators on campus -- might all be interim appointments at the moment you're brought on board? Combine that with the perpetual issues of being farther from the talent base in Chicago than Northwestern or Notre Dame and you've got a relatively unattractive gig.
     
  8. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

  9. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member



    Smart move by the Terps. With potential (likely?) openings at UVA and VT, they can get a jump on their search.
     
  10. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Two things.

    1. Edsall has been a disaster there, but hasn't been appreciably worse than the rest of his reign of error, and certainly not worse than when he signed an extension in June. Maryland had to abandon the ACC because it needed a big cash infusion to overcome financial mismanagement, and apparently learned nothing.
    2. That said, if you're going to fire the guy, do it today. Alabama was set to can Mike DuBose in 1999 after losing for the second time to La. Tech, but wanted to wait a couple of weeks until the open date. Next thing you know the Tide upset #14 Arkansas and then went to the Swamp and handed #3 Florida its first home loss in five years. DuBose stayed on, even won the SEC, got a contract extension and then flamed out even more spectacularly the next fall.
     
  11. albert77

    albert77 Well-Known Member

    If I remember correctly, KU's only win in '78 over Oklahoma
     
  12. Captain_Kirk

    Captain_Kirk Well-Known Member

    That's kind of along the lines of what they did in the 1980s with Mike White and became relevant for a period of time, after sucking in the seventies. White threw the ball all over, became a quarterback factory for the NFL with Wilson, Eason, Trudeau and George, won a good bit and even made a visit to Pasadena.

    No reason that couldn't happen again, although perhaps a little more difficult if one doesn't employ White's outlaw, not quite up to NCAA standards ways of conducting business.
     
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