College Football Thread

[Pagoda]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[steubenhoosier]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 

[Brass Cannon]

Gotta take advantage of this and mobilize the alumni base 

[Pagoda]

We are really pushing the this largest alumni base thing.

It’s great and we do need to get everyone engaged.  But if I am honest, I am pretty sure most large state schools have somewhat similar sized alumni bases.

[Hovadipo]

2 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

We are really pushing the this largest alumni base thing.

It’s great, but if I am honest, I am pretty sure most large state schools have somewhat similar sized alumni bases.

I don’t know how they pull the data, but last time I looked into this there actually is a sizable gap from IU/PSU to the 3rd spot. It was something like 100,000 more people. I think Michigan was 3rd. 

[Pagoda]

20 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

I don’t know how they pull the data, but last time I looked into this there actually is a sizable gap from IU/PSU to the 3rd spot. It was something like 100,000 more people. I think Michigan was 3rd. 

Hmm.  Our Bloomington campus enrollment has been #10-20 for a very long time.  I wonder if we count satellite campuses or something.  I don’t get how it’s true.

But, I’ll drop this topic, no one wants to see my posts disputing a stat that has IU #1 lol.

[Hovadipo]

7 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Hmm.  Our Bloomington campus enrollment has been #10-20 for a very long time.  I wonder if we count satellite campuses or something.  I don’t get how it’s true.

But, I’ll drop this topic, no one wants to see my posts disputing a stat that has IU #1 lol.

Satellites are included. It's 100% a mickey mouse stat.

[Brass Cannon]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

Satellites are included. It's 100% a mickey mouse stat.

People I know who went to IUPUI still claim they went to IU and cheer for IU athletics 

[IUHoosierJoe]

2 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

People I know who went to IUPUI still claim they went to IU and cheer for IU athletics 

People who went to IU campuses in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, etc., and received IU degrees are certainly IU alumni.

[Lebowski]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

Satellites are included. It's 100% a mickey mouse stat.

Yeah, well, that's like, your opinion, man. 

[Hovadipo]

Appears I kicked the hornet's nest. It was not my intent to diminish anyone's alumni status and I agree that an IU degree is an IU degree.

[Lebowski]

1 minute ago, Hovadipo said:

Appears I kicked the hornet's nest. It was not my intent to diminish anyone's alumni status and I agree that an IU degree is an IU degree.

Just take it easy, man.