Back by popular demand (meaning two posters mentioned it), the Coaching Carousel irregularly timed delivery of the coaching craziness will be aggregated here.
As always, I will strive to hand out hat tips to our intrepid correspondents, but if I miss you along the way, it wasn't intentional (at least as far as you know).
This year's format will alter slightly, I will try to keep things in the open jobs section organized by conference. It seems the nostalgic thing to do since there may not be conferences much longer, or at the least, a lot fewer of them.
So, with that said:
Open Jobs:
University of Colorado Golden Buffaloes: I have already broken the organize by conference rule, but the departure of the worst CU coach ever, or even appearing in our worst nightmares, merits an exception. I won't recount all the news here, I refer you to
@The Alabaster Yak 's "Official CU Head Coach Search" thread. Suffice it to say, everybody and their brother has an opinion, two of the more popular choices: Jeff Grimes, Bronco Mendenhall are drawing alot of bandwidth in that thread. Others include: Pat Fitzgerald, Jamey Chadwell, Ricky Rahne, [insert Dave Logan quip here], Blake Anderson and Tom Herman. Who will pants RG in contract negotiations this time? We will see as Dr. Phil and RG begin the process of figuring out how the landscape of CFB has changed since the Bush I administration.
PAC 12-
ASU- Our friends in Tempe have tossed Herm aside
. (h/t Jens) Matt Rhule (h/t ITB) a scary possibility. Dennis Dodd via (h/t Serenity) plucks Dowell Liggins as a name. In any event, a new Head Devil is on the way.
B1G-
kNU- The big one. Our favorite corn cob, Scott Frost, had his job drug out the door and down the stairs like Lawrence Phillips' girlfriend. (h/t Jens) Mickey Joseph is interim (h/t White Rabbit). Who will be the next savior of the polyester red clan? Well, Matt Campbell (h/t ITB and yak), Bill O'Brien (h/t yak and chase), Luke Fickell (h/t chase), Lance Leipold, Chris Klieman, Mark Stoops (h/t yak), Jamey Chadwell (h/t Pacman) and (h/t offgridgopher) checks in with the crazy notion our own Eric Bieniemy would arrive in corn nation to set things right. This one should be fun. The level of corn delusion has them hiring everyone from Urban Meyer to Nick Saban.
Wiscy- Paul Chryst out (h/t Jens) Jim Leonhard interim. Along with Leonhard, Lance Leipold, Matt Campbell, Dave Aranda, DAve Doeren, Matt Rhule, Chris Peterson, and Dan Mullen are names (h/t yak). My money is on Leonhard.
ACC-
GT- Geoff Collins is out (h/t nik and SewallBeach). Pete Thamel, via (h/t nik) names nearly everyone east of the Mississippi, and some to the west of it, as names: Chadwell, O'Brien, The Flying Monken brothers, both of them, Troy Calhoun, Bill Clark, Bronco Mendenhall, Chris Huff, Al Golden, etc.
Possibles-
Louisville- Scott Satterfield not working and playing well with others. (h/t ahoelsken)
UT- Steve Sarkisian has put his Armenian love casita up for sale in Austin (h/t BuffsRising) and may be on the Big Cigar's hit list (h/t LesGoodman)
aTm- Jimbo Fisher has not won 12 games yet this year and the Aggies may be willing to mount a buyout large enough to purchase Zimbabwe to be rid of him. (h/t Jens)
Auburn- Sigh. The bi-annual firing of the Auburn coach is upon us again. (h/t yak)
West Va- (h/t yak) says they may be making a move, so I'll go along with that.
Mizzou- That App St. magic may not have followed Drinkwitz (h/t yak)
Stanford- Maybe Shaw has run his course? (h/t yak)
Let the carousel spin