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College Football Coaching Carousel: Only Penn State Still Open

JDawg said:
Maryland fired the Fridge the day after Vanderbilt announced James Franklin as head coach.
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My mistake. Strange timing, though.

Also, to expand on a previous point about recruiting, Vandy has the #22 recruiting class in the nation coming in next year, which is (right now) better than Wisconsin, Oklahoma State, TCU, Penn State, and Nebraska.
 
TBR said:
I'd imagine that there were discussions between Maryland and Franklin before he took the Vanderbilt job.
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Yeah. He was the coach in waiting.
 
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the new AD made it clear that Franklin's HCIW deal would not be honored so he took the Vandy job.
 
Once Franklin left, they could fire Friedgen without having to pay Franklin for passing him over to be head coach. I think he got a $3M bonus if he didn't become HC. If Franklin stayed, Friedgen would be at MD still IMO.
 
50-0 might have had something to do with it. Also, this allows them to get a head start on the search.
 
Winning the Pac-12 South this year doesn't mean much. Other than UCLA, the division includes Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, and USC. Only teams with a winning record are Utah and USC, and USC isn't post season eligible.

For comparison, the ACC Atlantic has 3 teams with winning records, and the ACC Coastal has 4. That's with 6 teams per division instead of 7.
 
Edsall isn't part of this thread (yet) but I just got around to reading some editorials from over the weekend, like the one in the Washington Post:

Here’s the real reason Edsall should be fired: He doesn’t get it.

He didn’t get it a year ago, when he didn’t have the class to tell his Connecticut players in person that he was leaving. He didn’t get it when he started spouting off about rules as if he had invented the idea of discipline.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...nd-any-worse/2011/11/27/gIQAhnd61N_story.html

And the one in the Hartford Courant:

Going from nine wins last year under Ralph Friedgen to two is the second biggest free fall by a first-year coach among power football conferences in the past 50 years. Randy did it with a flourish, too, dropping the last seven in a row by double digits. None of them were his fault. Never are.
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Reading Edsall's responses this fall was like watching an old sitcom for the 20th time. I swear the guy rehearses his answers in the mirror. At one point, he threw Friedgen under the bus. When things go wrong, it's always somebody else's fault.

Speaking directly to Feinstein's points, yes, Edsall exposed himself last January to be like any other ambitious, glory-seeking coach. He made all his talk about family and brotherhood ring hollow. Yet that didn't stop him from taking all his rules and all his talk about discipline to Maryland. Nothing was more ironic than Edsall's enforcing his "no-name" rule on the back of jerseys while wearing the most ridiculous "look-at-us" uniforms in college football history.
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http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-jacobs-edsall-column-1130-20111130,0,2427044.column

Guy doesn't seem to have very many fans.
 
Edsall sounds real familiar.
 
RollWave35 said:
Edsall isn't part of this thread (yet) but I just got around to reading some editorials from over the weekend, like the one in the Washington Post:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...nd-any-worse/2011/11/27/gIQAhnd61N_story.html

And the one in the Hartford Courant:



http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-jacobs-edsall-column-1130-20111130,0,2427044.column

Guy doesn't seem to have very many fans.
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If it's possible, I think Edsall actually has less support among the Maryland fan base than Bz does among the Wake fan base.
 
TBR said:
Winning the Pac-12 South this year doesn't mean much. Other than UCLA, the division includes Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah, and USC. Only teams with a winning record are Utah and USC, and USC isn't post season eligible.

For comparison, the ACC Atlantic has 3 teams with winning records, and the ACC Coastal has 4. That's with 6 teams per division instead of 7.
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Too bad San Jose State didn't beat UCLA, so the Bruins would come in with a losing record. Question, say that was the case and UCLA came into the title game at 5-7, with a win they'd still only be 6-7, would they still go to a BCS or any bowl? I can't remember if the rule is just that you have to have 6 wins or do you have to have a non-losing record also?
 
RollWave35 said:
Edsall isn't part of this thread (yet) but I just got around to reading some editorials from over the weekend, like the one in the Washington Post:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...nd-any-worse/2011/11/27/gIQAhnd61N_story.html

And the one in the Hartford Courant:



http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-jacobs-edsall-column-1130-20111130,0,2427044.column

Guy doesn't seem to have very many fans.
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I posted the quotes from a player transfering on page 4. The players were pissed at Edsall. Edsall said they weren't held accountable in the past and that he didn't have enough talent to win. He never took any blame for the season they had. Kept blaming the players. Everyone is expecting a mass exodus from the program. Never seen anything like this.
 
liveanddiedeac said:
Too bad San Jose State didn't beat UCLA, so the Bruins would come in with a losing record. Question, say that was the case and UCLA came into the title game at 5-7, with a win they'd still only be 6-7, would they still go to a BCS or any bowl? I can't remember if the rule is just that you have to have 6 wins or do you have to have a non-losing record also?
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I'm pretty sure that if you win your conference then you have the right to go to the bowl associated with that conference. Some years back, I remember a Sun Belt team that won their conference with 5 wins, but lost all 5 non-conference games. As the Sun Belt winner, they went to whatever bowl was affiliated with their conference despite their 5-6 record, maybe the New Orleans Bowl or some other nondescript bowl.
 
It'd be kind of funny if UCLA beat Oregon, went to and won their first Rose Bowl in a long time I'm sure and fired their coach the same season.
 
A Carolina grad I know just asked me about Troy Calhoun. . .roh roh. . .
 
deacfreke2 said:
I'm pretty sure that if you win your conference then you have the right to go to the bowl associated with that conference. Some years back, I remember a Sun Belt team that won their conference with 5 wins, but lost all 5 non-conference games. As the Sun Belt winner, they went to whatever bowl was affiliated with their conference despite their 5-6 record, maybe the New Orleans Bowl or some other nondescript bowl.
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The team you are thinking about was North Texas. They were 5-6 (5-1), but won the head-to-head tie-breaker by beating Middle Tennessee, so they got a waiver to go to the inaugural New Orleans Bowl. Some analysts have UCLA petitioning for a waiver to get into a bowl at 6-7, but I'm not sure whether you can get a waiver if you don't win your conference.
 
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