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[Versatile]

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Freeze could be a guy for Memphis too ... seriously.

I agree. He's a fast riser with Mississippi roots, Memphis ties and a track record as a head coach (albeit mostly at the high school and NAIA levels). Hiring him is like taking a Mark Reynolds swing; hiring Houston Nutt was more like emulating Pete Rose. Either way, in baseball or at Mississippi, you're only going to get a hit 20-35 percent of the time. Why not swing for the fences?

Also, shouldn't Ohio State technically be listed as "Open," since Fickell is under contract to be head coach for just this one season.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

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There are rumors that Maryland is at least considering bouncing Randy Edsall. I don't think that's a likely outcome though, and that's too bad.

 

[zagoshe]

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If Maryland fired Edsall it would be one of the dumbest firings ever and whoever is running that joint should be fired for incompetency as well

 

[Flying Headbutt]

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A lot of fans want the AD fired, too. But this Edsall hiring is a disaster. He's alienating everyone, be it players, fans, alums, and apparently even AD staff. He's not only not winning, he's not coming close to winning. And the school is going to realize that while it can't afford to fire him now, it's probably not far off from being unable to afford to not fire him. Donations and season tickets are going to plummet even more next year as much because he's so completely arrogant and unlikeable as his coaching is just bad.

 

[User 4332]

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UNC should be on the open list.

 

[Steak Snabler]

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UNC should be on the open list.

If they hire Malzahn, does he have to bring his wife?

 

[User 4332]

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UNC should be on the open list.

If they hire Malzahn, does he have to bring his wife?

I hope not:

 

[Steak Snabler]

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Already created a separate thread, but Meyer to Ohio State is seemingly official:

espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7289592/urban-meyer-joins-ohio-state-buckeyes-coach-agent-confirms

 

[Killick]

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Cincinnati's Butch Jones being considered for Illinois, North Carolina gigs and soon, UCLA (according to the local rag). Local fandom going bat-**** crazy, still asshurt over Dantonio and Kelly leaving for greener pastures.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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The Penn State opening will be one of the most interesting to watch...

No established coach in his right mind would want that job.

 

[trifectarich]

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The Penn State opening will be one of the most interesting to watch...

No established coach in his right mind would want that job.

I disagree. One way or another, the scandal will be resolved and it'll be back to business as usual. It always is.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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The Penn State opening will be one of the most interesting to watch...

No established coach in his right mind would want that job.

I disagree. One way or another, the scandal will be resolved and it'll be back to business as usual. It always is.

You don't think this scandal will loom for at least another few years?

I think who Penn State winds up with will be an indicator of whether that's truly the case.

 

[BrianGriffin]

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The JoePa thing could make Penn State more attractive because you get a clean slate. There's no trying to hang on to the JoePa era. The next coach can bring his people with him to his heart's content. PSU will probably want no ties, at least right now, between the new staff and the JoePa staff.

At least, I would think that. I don't know that.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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The JoePa thing could make Penn State more attractive because you get a clean slate. There's no trying to hang on to the JoePa era. The next coach can bring his people with him to his heart's content. PSU will probably want no ties, at least right now, between the new staff and the JoePa staff.

At least, I would think that. I don't know that.

I think the fans and alumni will have a really hard time accepting someone who has no ties to the school.

I think the exception might be if they hired a really big name, but that will not be easy to do.

 

[Armchair_QB]

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The JoePa thing could make Penn State more attractive because you get a clean slate. There's no trying to hang on to the JoePa era. The next coach can bring his people with him to his heart's content. PSU will probably want no ties, at least right now, between the new staff and the JoePa staff.

At least, I would think that. I don't know that.

I think the fans and alumni will have a really hard time accepting someone who has no ties to the school.

I think the exception might be if they hired a really big name, but that will not be easy to do.

They can't hire anybody with ties to the school because there are no PSU alums currently coaching who didn't play for Paterno.

The alums are just going to have to live with it.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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The JoePa thing could make Penn State more attractive because you get a clean slate. There's no trying to hang on to the JoePa era. The next coach can bring his people with him to his heart's content. PSU will probably want no ties, at least right now, between the new staff and the JoePa staff.

At least, I would think that. I don't know that.

I think the fans and alumni will have a really hard time accepting someone who has no ties to the school.

I think the exception might be if they hired a really big name, but that will not be easy to do.

They can't hire anybody with ties to the school because there are no PSU alums currently coaching who didn't play for Paterno.

The alums are just going to have to live with it.

Schiano is the one I wonder about. He hasn't been at Penn State since 1995. He coached under Sandusky and Paterno, but I think that was before any of the allegations were raised.

I don't know the answer. I just know we've heard precious little about who they could hire.

 

[Armchair_QB]

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The JoePa thing could make Penn State more attractive because you get a clean slate. There's no trying to hang on to the JoePa era. The next coach can bring his people with him to his heart's content. PSU will probably want no ties, at least right now, between the new staff and the JoePa staff.

At least, I would think that. I don't know that.

I think the fans and alumni will have a really hard time accepting someone who has no ties to the school.

I think the exception might be if they hired a really big name, but that will not be easy to do.

They can't hire anybody with ties to the school because there are no PSU alums currently coaching who didn't play for Paterno.

The alums are just going to have to live with it.

Schiano is the one I wonder about. He hasn't been at Penn State since 1995. He coached under Sandusky and Paterno, but I think that was before any of the allegations were raised.

I don't know the answer. I just know we've heard precious little about who they could hire.

They can't hire anybody who coached at Penn State in the last 30+ years because they don't want to hire a guy who has to answer "What did you know? What did you see?" on a regular basis.

This hire has to be a clean break from the Paterno regime.

The best they can do in terms of local ties is a "name" Western Pa. guy who has no connection to Penn State.

Which is why there is really only one choice for this job:

 

[derwood]

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Schiano was Curley's guy so I think he is probably out.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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Schiano was Curley's guy so I think he is probably out.

I had forgotten that. That's a good point.

 

[ejhayes737]

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Arizona State is one heck of an attractive job. Erickson dropped the ball with this one. The Sun Devils can definitely compete in the PAC-12 with the right coach.