College Football Thread

[Pagoda 5,946]

It's pretty crazy how many head coach openings there are now and how many are probably coming:

Current:
- PSU
- Va Tech
- UCLA
- Arkansas
- Okie St.
Soon:
- UNC
Chance of a change in next year or two:
- Florida
- Florida St.
- Wisconsin
- Auburn
- Michigan State
- South Carolina

I probably missed a few.  One that could be coming and it's a top-5 or so mega-job is Michigan.  Sherrone is stumbling a bit and his buyout isn't much for UM.  If he has a bad rest of this year, I could see UM losing faith in him.

Anyways, I don't have anything else to say except it's quite the list.

[ap2345 11,434]

57 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

It's pretty crazy how many head coach openings there are now and how many are probably coming:

Current:
- PSU
- Va Tech
- UCLA
- Arkansas
- Okie St.
Soon:
- UNC
Chance of a change in next year or two:
- Florida
- Florida St.
- Wisconsin
- Auburn
- Michigan State
- South Carolina

I probably missed a few.  One that could be coming and it's a top-5 or so mega-job is Michigan.  Sherrone is stumbling a bit and his buyout isn't much for UM.  If he has a bad rest of this year, I could see UM losing faith in him.

Anyways, I don't have anything else to say except it's quite the list.

I think a lot of it has to do with schools needing to start doing background on hires earlier so they can get things done as soon as their seasons are over so coaches can hit the ground running when the portal opens. 

[ap2345 11,434]

8 hours ago, steubenhoosier said:

IMO, Matt Campbell would be the home run hire they are looking for. PSU definitely an upgrade in every way over ISU. He was born and raised in Ohio, so knows the area. 
 

As is the case with most things in life, would have to have the wife on board for this to happen.

I think Rhule to Penn State and Campbell to Nebraska is more likely tbh

[Demo 25,178]

9 hours ago, steubenhoosier said:

IMO, Matt Campbell would be the home run hire they are looking for. PSU definitely an upgrade in every way over ISU. He was born and raised in Ohio, so knows the area. 
 

As is the case with most things in life, would have to have the wife on board for this to happen.

I think Campbell would be an excellent hire and maybe that’s sort of where they end up. But I don’t imagine they spent almost 50 mil to go get the guy from Iowa St. They’ll be taking some big swings 1st. Side note: how funny is it that a guy who’ll be 65 before he coaches a game in the ‘26 season and has coached 19 games at the high major level would be considered maybe the biggest swing of all? And yet, of course he is. What a time this is. 

[Hovadipo 62,730]

All these high profile jobs open/coming open has me excited for Urban Szn.

[steubenhoosier 1,990]

One thing to consider…

The B1G is in the 4th quarter of negotiations for a $2B private equity deal.

With that in mind, I don’t think Dr. Kraft is worried too much about the buyout numbers.

[Demo 25,178]

Freaking knew it. Eli Drinkwitz now coming up in connection with Penn St. His agent is The Man. Got Drink’s name attached to LSU and got him a big extension when there was no chance he was a candidate there. He’s about to do it again. He’s also Marcus Freeman’s agent, so don’t be surprised when you start hearing about how Freeman is “open to Penn St overtures.” 

[AKHoosier 7,815]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

Freaking knew it. Eli Drinkwitz now coming up in connection with Penn St. His agent is The Man. Got Drink’s name attached to LSU and got him a big extension when there was no chance he was a candidate there. He’s about to do it again. He’s also Marcus Freeman’s agent, so don’t be surprised when you start hearing about how Freeman is “open to Penn St overtures.” 

Good work.

On cue, Penn State fans on another board I frequent are already passing along information from a Penn State mod that says they have a "better shot than we thought" at Freeman.

[Hovadipo 62,730]

16 minutes ago, AKHoosier said:

Good work.

On cue, Penn State fans on another board I frequent are already passing along information from a Penn State mod that says they have a "better shot than we thought" at Freeman.

I think the only reason for Domers to start worrying is if Ohio State opens up. I have zero reason to believe that Penn State is a better job than ND right now and from the outside, it appears that Freeman has completely bought in to everything that comes with being the ND football coach.

[Brass Cannon 26,005]

57 minutes ago, AKHoosier said:

Good work.

On cue, Penn State fans on another board I frequent are already passing along information from a Penn State mod that says they have a "better shot than we thought" at Freeman.

They have found their Billy Donovan