2018 Coaching Changes thread

[MrNubbz]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Matt Canada has been hired as Maryland's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Canada spent last season working the same positions with Louisiana State. He replaces Walt Bell, who left for Florida State.

[rolltidefan]

dan enos 'likely' leaving mich for bama to coach qb's.

bobby williams leaving off field position at bama for sp tm assistant at oregon.

[847badgerfan]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Matt Canada has been hired as Maryland's offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Canada spent last season working the same positions with Louisiana State. He replaces Walt Bell, who left for Florida State.

Ronald Reagan wins election!

[mcwterps1]

Ronald Reagan wins election!

In fairness, it really wasn't official when first mentioned. 

[847badgerfan]

Hah!

[FearlessF]

NOTRE DAME, Indiana - Terry Joseph, previously an assistant coach at Tennessee, Nebraska, Texas A&M and North Carolina, has been named defensive backs coach for the University of Notre Dame.

"Having the chance to coach at Notre Dame is a once in a lifetime opportunity," said Joseph. "There are a lot of great programs in the nation but there is truly only one Notre Dame. I'm looking forward to working with Coach Kelly, the rest of the staff and embracing the opportunity to compete on a national stage in pursuit of this program's mission: to graduate all of its players and win a national championship."

"Terry has an excellent reputation as a quality teacher and coach, as well as a committed recruiter," said Brian Kelly, Dick Corbett Head Football Coach at the University of Notre Dame. "He has developed all-conference caliber players at each of his earlier stops, including Power-5 programs North Carolina, Texas A&M, Nebraska and Tennessee. Our players will certainly benefit from Terry's teaching in terms of football, but I'm probably more excited to see our players benefit from his leadership skills away from football."

[Brutus Buckeye]

The Practical Hoke-ster is taking his headset to the Carolina Panthers, as D-Line coach.

[FearlessF]

A proposal that would let players transfer without restriction after a coaching change is gaining momentum.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/proposal-to-let-athletes-transfer-instantly-after-a-coaching-change-picks-up-steam/

[rolltidefan]

saw that earlier.
basically same rule as now, except adding in exception for kids to transfer freely if coach resigned/is fired and CANNOT go to the hc new school.
i think i'm ok with this rule. not seeing an obvious downside. good to know they won't let kids just follow coaches around, but will give them chance to reevaluate the situation without penalty.

[847badgerfan]

Kids should commit to a school and not a coach.

[MaximumSam]

I love it. Schools should have to take the feelings of their kids into account when changing the program

[FearlessF]

Kids should commit to a school and not a coach.

I agree.  But, if the Head coach leaves it could be a different program all together
I don't feel the same way about assistant coaches.  Assistants change all the time and for many reasons.  Commit to the school and the head guy in charge of the program.
for example, Mike Riley ran a pro style offense suited for a QB with a great arm and no legs.  Scott Frost runs a different offense.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I'm in favor. Frankly, it just makes sense. 

As much as people say that kids commit to a school and not to a coach, that's not really true. Kids commit to a football program, and one of the key aspects of a football program is the coach, who controls the offensive/defensive schemes, etc. 

You see it already with Purdue. Some players committed to Darrell Hazell, who has a very different football philosophy* than Jeff Brohm. Players who wanted to play the style of football Hazell was offering may not have been the right fit for Brohm's style. As such, by no fault of their own, they basically don't have a spot because the new coach frankly doesn't have any use for them, and Purdue has already lost some players to transfer this offseason** and is expected to lose more.

Now, that is the case when a team fires their coach. In that case, the idea that you'll have more than a handful of players jumping ship right after you fire your coach maybe gives an AD pause to just fire at will. For those of us that generally don't like the rapid-fire turnover in coaching ranks, knowing that you can't be so trigger-happy might slow down the craziness.

For coaches leaving of their own accord, I agree that you can't let players go to the team the coach left for. However, I worry here about allowing transfers, particularly for mid-major teams. I worry about turning G5 teams into farm programs, and if you let players transfer every time a coach leaves, you're going to see the biggest talents on those teams--the ones who will find landing spots at P5 programs--deserting G5 en masse. But I don't see a good solution here either, because allowing them to transfer when a coach is fired but NOT when a coach voluntarily leaves seems like a strange double standard to enforce.

* I'm still trying to determine what his philosophy was. It's a question that may plague me until my dying days. "Rosebud."

** I understand that this is the second offseason since his arrival, so it's not directly applicable. However I'm sure that if it was easy for kids to transfer without sitting a year out, the turnover on the roster would have happened more quickly after he arrived and started evaluating players, and a lot of those players leaving now wouldn't have wasted the year on Purdue's roster with no PT.

[mcwterps1]

Kids should commit to a school and not a coach.

So should the coach?