Tofficial College football 2011-12 coaching changes thread..

[starbigd]

Given the timing they need to go internally.

We're at the end of recruiting and just about to sign kids. Neither Patterson or Petersen is going to walk out on all those kids they made promises to.

With Phil Knight's money, they'll look externally at first for sure. They may go interim, but I think the hammer is about to come down. The rats are all jumping off the ship right now.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

well Kelly pulls a full 360

looks like this thread is not longer going again

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

hey!!! we get to bring it back after all, Rutgers' coach has left for the Buccanneers who were apparently set on trying to get the random college coach.

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

Rutgers will move quickly

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

looks like coaching jobs are done changing, here's my ranking on all of them so that at the end of the year we can laugh if one of the higher ranked hires fails and one of the lower hires does really good.

1. Urban Meyer(Ohio State)- he's the most sure thing, he will succeed at Ohio State, only concerns are the health "concerns"
2. Mike Leach(Washington State)- he has brought instant recognition to Washington State, plus he's a great coach as well.
3. Gus Malzahn(Arkansas State)- he's taking over a great spot at Arkansas State plus he will be a good coach himself, only concern is he hasn't been a head coach before.
4. Tim Beckman(Illinois)- he a really good and underrated coach, good hire for Illinois
5. Paul Chyrst(Pitt)- he's a rising assistant good hire by Pitt.
6. Jim McElwain(Colorado State)- he is another top assistant, good hire for Colorado State.
7. Rich Rod(Arizona)- he's a very hit or miss hire, good news is he should bring a good offense to Arizona, bad news is Arizona's defense was terrible with a good defensive minded coach, how bad will it get now??
8. Kevin Sumlin(Texas A&M)- he's certainly one of the biggest rising candidates, will be interesting to see how he does though, he went 5-7 the year before at Houston.
9. Hugh Freeze(Ole Mrs)- he's a riser among the coaching ranks
10. Larry Fedora(North Carolina)- he's another good rising hire
11. Tony Levine(Houston)- if the bowl game was any indication he should be a good hire for Houston
12. Matt Campbell(Toledo)- Toledo kept him in house and he kept a lot of the assistants good job by both Toledo and Campbell.
13. Terry Bowden(Akron)- he brings some name recognition to Akron, he wasn't great at North Alabama though.
14. Tim DeRuyter(Fresno State)- he was a solid defensive coordinator and has built a good staff at Fresno State.
15. Ellis Johnson(Southern Mrs)- he was another rising coordinator, he also got a job at a solid Southern Mrs program.
16. Carl Pelini(FAU)
17. Charlie Weis(Kansas)- only ranked this high because he does have people talking about Kansas football at least.
18. Justin Fuente(Memphis)
19. Norm Chow(Hawai'i)
20. Charlie Molnar(UMass)
21. Bill O'Brien(Penn State)
22. Todd Graham(Arizona State)
23. Curtis Johnson(Tulane)
24. Kyle Flood(Rutgers)
25. Garrett McGee(UAB)
26. Bob Davie(New Mexico)
27. Jim Mora Jr.(UCLA)

 

[ForkEmBucky]

You should put Paul Chryst at #2 or #3. The only thing he hasn't proven is that he can be a head coach. The guy is an offensive mastermind taking over a program that is used to pro-style offense.

 

[starbigd]

Wow how the mighty have fallen. Remember when Norm Chow was the top assistant on the planet?

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

You should put Paul Chryst at #2 or #3. The only thing he hasn't proven is that he can be a head coach. The guy is an offensive mastermind taking over a program that is used to pro-style offense.

Leach and Meyer are my easy 1-2s, sir

next 3 are close

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

perhaps Petrino might get fired??

either way worth bumping this thread

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

and there it is... Petrino looks to have been fired, this thread is back !!

 

[BadMotoWeazal]

Houston Nutt returns to Lil Rock??? LOL

 

[BoiseStateFan27]

lets re-rank these after this season

1. Urban Meyer(Ohio State) - 12-0 season with a previously 6-7 team is much better than anyone expected...and I already had him ranked #1
2. Kevin Sumlin(Texas A&M)- what an amazing job he did at A&M, 10-2 season and a heisman winning QB.
3. Bill O'Brien(Penn State)- had a whole lot against him upon entering, somehow guided a solid season and is also somehow recruiting well. He might just keep Penn State on the map.
4. Kyle Flood(Rutgers)- he led Rutgers to a good year despite fading a bit down the stretch
5. Tim DeRuyter(Fresno State)- led Fresno State to a 9-3 season greatly improving a team that struggled the year before. Fresno State is lucky another program didn't snatch him up.
6. Hugh Freeze(Ole Miss)
7. Jim Mora Jr.(UCLA)
8. Rich Rod(Arizona)
9. Matt Campbell(Toledo)
10. Bob Davie(New Mexico)
11. Gus Malzahn(Arkansas State)
12. Justin Fuente(Memphis)
13. Todd Graham(Arizona State)
14. Paul Chyrst(Pitt)-lost to Youngstown State but he's clearly put more life into the program
15. Curtis Johnson(Tulane)-mainly based off his great recruiting class he's bringing in
16. Larry Fedora(North Carolina)
17. Terry Bowden(Akron)
18. Charlie Weis(Kansas)
19. Mike Leach(Washington State)
20. Carl Pelini(FAU)
21. Garrett McGee(UAB)
22. Jim McElwain(Colorado State)
23. Charlie Molnar(UMass)
24. Norm Chow(Hawai'i)- Hawai'i seemed to fall further back under Chow this year, their defense was awful
25. Tony Levine(Houston)- had some embarrassing moments at Houston this year, including the opener where they lost 30-13 to new FBS member Texas State, also lost 72-42 to SMU.
26. Tim Beckman(Illinois)- he was a disappointment went 2-10 with Illinois
27. John L. Smith(Arkansas)- went 4-8 with a talented Arkansas team, he was not retained to say the least
28. Ellis Johnson(Southern Miss)- went 0-12 with what was a solid Southern Miss program, obviously he was fired