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Coaching search: Coaches in bowl games

Lt.Col.FrankSlade

Well-Known Member
There are 70 coaches preparing their teams for bowl games right now. Some of them should certainly be considered for the CU job. I have identified those who I believe CU could go after in green. Those in red are probably beyond CU's means.


Air Force (6-6) - Troy Calhoun (6th year) (approx. salary $900,000)
Alabama (12-1) - Nick Saban (6th year) ($5+ million)
Arizona (7-5) - Rich Rodriguez (1st year) ($1.75 million)
Arizona State (7-5) - Todd Graham (1st year) ($2 million)
Arkansas State (9-3) - NO COACH AT PRESENT
Ball State (9-3) - Pete Lembo (2nd year) ($350,000)
Baylor (7-5) - Art Briles (5th year) ($2.23 million - just signed extension)
Boise State (10-2) - Chris Peterson (7th year) ($1.7 million - escalating to $2.5 million in 2016)
Bowling Green (8-4) - Dave Clawson (4th year) ($364,000)
BYU (7-5) - Bronco Mendenhall (8th year) (@ $1 million)
Central Florida (9-4)- George O'Leary (9th year) ($1.5 million)
Central Michigan (6-6) - Dan Enos (3rd year) ($325,000)
Cincinnati (8-4) - Butch Jones (3rd year) ($1.8 million)
Clemson (10-2) - Dabo Sweeney (5th year) ($2.0 million)
Duke (6-6) - David Cutcliffe (5th year) ($1.8 million)
East Carolina (8-4) - Ruffin McNeil (3rd year) ($950,000)
Florida (11-1) - Will Muschamp (2nd year) ($2.5 million)
Florida State (11-2) - Jimbo Fisher (3rd year) ($2.75 million)
Fresno State (9-3) - Tim DeRuyter (1st year) ($650,000)
Georgia (11-2) - Mark Richt (12 years) ($2.9 million)
Georgia Tech (6-7) - Paul Johnson (5 years) ($2.5 million)
Iowa State (6-6) - Paul Rhodes (4th year) ($1.6 million)
Kansas State (11-1) - Bill Snyder (15+ years) ($2.2 million)
Kent State (11-2) - NO COACH AT PRESENT
Louisiana Lafayette (8-4) - Mark Hudspeth (2nd year) ($800,000)
LSU (10-2) - Les Miles (8th year) ($4 million)
Louisville (10-2) - Charlie Strong (3rd year) ($2.3 million)
Michigan (8-4) - Brady Hoke (2nd year) ($3 million)
Michigan State (6-6) - Mark Dantonio (6th year) ($1.9 million)
Minnesota (6-6) - Jerry Kill (2nd year) ($1.2 million)
Ole Miss (6-6) - Hugh Freeze (1st year) ($1.5 million)
Mississippi State (8-4) - Dan Mullen (4th year) ($2.6 million)
Navy (7-5) - Ken Niumatololo (6th year) ($1.6 million)
Nebraska (10-3) - Bo Pelini (5th year) ($2.875 million )
NC State (7-5) - NO COACH AT PRESENT
Nevada (7-5) -Chris Ault (Been there forever) ($500,000)
Northwestern (9-3) - Pat Fitzgerald (7th year) ($1.8 million)
Northern Illinois (12-1) - NO COACH AT PRESENT
Notre Dame (12-0) - Brian Kelly (3rd year) ($2.4 million)
Ohio (8-4) - Frank Solich (8th year) ($500,000)
Oklahoma (10-2) - Bob Stoops (14th year) ($4.5 million)
Oklahoma State (7-5) - Mike Gundy (8th year) ($3.275 million)
Oregon (11-1) - Chip Kelly (4th year) ($3.5 million)
Oregon State (9-3) - Mike Riley (10+ years) ($1.3 million)
Pittsburgh (6-6) - Paul Chryst (1st year) ($1.75 million)
Purdue (6-6) - Darrell Hazzell (JUST HIRED)
Rice (6-6) - David Baillif (6th year) ($600,000)
Rutgers (9-3) - Kyle Flood (1st year) ($760,000)
SDSU (9-3) - Rocky Long (2nd year) ($800,000)
SJSU (10-2) - Mike MacIntyre (3rd year) ($400,000)
South Carolina (10-2) - Steve Spurrier (8th year) ($3.5 million)
SMU (6-6) - June Jones (5th year) ($1.8 million)
Stanford (11-2) - David Shaw (2nd year) (unknown)
Syracuse (7-5) - Doug Marrone (3rd year) ($1.3 million)
Texas (8-4) - Mack Brown (15th year) ($5+ million)
TCU (7-5) - Gary Patterson (13 years) ($3.5 million)
Texas A&M (10-2) - Kevin Sumlin (1st year) ($2.5 million)
Texas Tech (7-5) - Tommy Tubberville (3rd year) ($2.155 million)
Toledo (9-3) - Matt Campbell (1st year) ($360,000)
Tulsa (10-3) - Bill Blankenship (2nd year) (unknown)
UCLA (9-4) - Jim Mora, Jr. (1st year) ($2 million)
Univ. of Louisiana - Monroe (8-4) - Todd Barry (3rd year) ($250,000)
USC (7-5) - Lane Kiffin (3rd year) ($4 million)
Utah State (10-2) - Gary Anderson (4th year) ($765,000)
Vanderbilt (8-4) - James Franklin (2nd year) (Rumored $3 million per year)
Virginia Tech (6-6) - Frank Beamer (20+ years)
Washington (7-5) - Steve Sarkisian (4th year) ($2.4 million)
West Virginia (7-5) - Dana Holgerson (2nd year) ($2.4 million)
Western Kentucky (7-5) - Willie Taggert (3rd year) ($500,000)
Wisconsin (8-5) - NO COACH AT PRESENT
 
Interesting list.

Rhodes
Taggart
Freeze
Hudspeth

That would be my list from those. I really doubt you are going to get Freeze out of an SEC gig, though.
 
Well done. Rep just for the amount of work required to put that together. I personally am biased to HCs who had at least 8 wins this year.

At one point I heard Riley could be looking for greener pastures and was a hot prospect. He would be awesome with his Pac 12 roots and turnaround of OSU.
 
Should probably make Chryst red - his buyout is $6MM. We're definitely not going there.
 
Rocky Long would be a good coach if he was interested. My dad played for him while Rocky was the defensive backs coach at Wyoming and he said Rocky Long was one of the smartest coaches he has ever met. And my dad grew up with Chuck and John Pagano.
 
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Mike Riley is my favorite coach on that lost, but he is not leaving Oregon State.
 
Rich Rod is a steal for what he's making. If it wasn't his first year, I would have loved to see us make a run at him.
 
SINKRATZ said:
Rich Rod is a steal for what he's making. If it wasn't his first year, I would have loved to see us make a run at him.
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I would have disagreed with you before, stating that our defense would be ruined. However, since it can't get any worse, Rich Rod would be a defensive savior at this point.
 
Saw Ruffin McNeil on the list... you know that guy lost a whole Mangino over the last year or so. Had some gastric bypass action.

Congratulations to him.

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Duff Man said:
Mike Riley is my favorite coach on that lost, but he is not leaving Oregon State.
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He's my favorite on the list too - too bad it's not happening, I don't even know if we could throw enough money at him (and have him put 100% into it - internally he would know he was a mercenary).
 
skibum said:
He's my favorite on the list too - too bad it's not happening, I don't even know if we could throw enough money at him (and have him put 100% into it - internally he would know he was a mercenary).
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You're right, we couldn't throw enough money at him. Dude loves Corvallis
 
Creatini said:
You're right, we couldn't throw enough money at him. Dude loves Corvallis
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I don't know-doubling your salary to go from Corvalis to Boulder is not a bad play for most people. I like Corvalis but Boulder is cooler and with better access to a bigger city.

But, he's probably not leaving (more likely OSU would restructure his contract if we came knocking).
 
Boyd, Riley grew up in Corvallis and was a star high school athlete there. It is home and he loves it there.
 
So with rumor circulating that Bohn is going for a home-run, splash, big name, pick your adjective phrase current coach, I decided to peruse this list again, and decide what seems possible. Keeping in mind that Beliema seemed wedded to Wisconsin 1 week ago, so... Basically, my only criteria in this were Salary <$3MM, hasn't signed an extension this year, and either in a BCS conference or has been a "BCS buster" lately. Also kicked out Snyder, Pelini and Kelly - even though they met those criteria.

Chris Peterson
Dabo Sweeney
David Cutcliffe
Will Muschamp
Jimbo Fisher
Mark Richt
Paul Johnson
Paul Rhodes
Charlie Strong
Mark Dantonio
Jerry Kill
Hugh Freeze
Dan Mullen
Pat Fitzgerald
Brian Kelly
Mike Riley
Paul Chryst
Doug Marrone
James Franklin
Frank Beamer
Steve Sarkisian
Dana Holgerson

These next names are from the above list (with one obvious exception), but fall into a "for various random reasons skibum thinks they might able to be lured to Boulder:"

Chris Peterson
Dan Mullen
Pat Fitzgerald
Dana Holgerson
Mark Richt
Al Golden

The only really new name on my list that hasn't been thrown out there by anyone yet (I think) is Holgerson - for some reason I could see him wanting out of hillbilly U.
 
I like Ault at Nevada.

I thought Taggert was picked up (USF?). ESPN guys were saying that was the steal of the year.
 
CUAviator said:
I like Ault at Nevada.

I thought Taggert was picked up (USF?). ESPN guys were saying that was the steal of the year.
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Ault is old as s**t and has been coaching at Nevada since the 1970's, if he had ever wanted to leave he would have done it a while ago.
 
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