HC Vacancies Thread

[bamajoe]

He got a 21.7 million dollar buyout. That's not stupid.

[Kris60]

He got a 21.7 million dollar buyout. That's not stupid.

Well, not on his part anyway...

[OrangeAfroMan]

Maybe the teacher shortage will be severe enough so that I could orchestrate a buy-out.  
Step 2 would be difficult:  be so bad at the job that they want you gone.

[FearlessF]

He let his offense fall off, despite having a bunch of good seeming talent.

we all see this as well
I'm talking about something such as night putting with the Dean's daughter

[CatsbyAZ]

Probably is the worst year to go looking for a new coach, given the circumstances. Which is why I'm guessing Harbaugh and especially Tom Herman still have their gigs. Their schools know better than to think they can come up with anything better. I'm not sure what Auburn is thinking. The Tigers are in good enough shape to wait another year if they really wanted Mahlzan gone. Same goes for Illinois - what are they thinking? Lovie has had the Illini trendy steadily upward until this year with COVID more to blame for their 2-5 W/L record.

One school in this "knows better category" is USC, whose AD couldn't be happier for Clay Helton to be 5-0 going into this Friday's Pac 12 Championship Vs Wash...Oregon. Mike Bohn(head) really doesn't want to have to go coach-searching given: A) the COVID budget crunch and B) the inability to meet fans winning expectations (Meyer or bust nonsense) with the School President's (Carol Folt) political expectations.

Heading into this season Helton's buyout was upwards of $20Mil, which was the greatest case against firing him at the end of last year's 8-4 regular season. For three years now SC's diehards have actively campaigned for Helton's firing and Helton in turn has barely managed to scrape by with the powers that be. This season turned out to be the gift he and Bohn(head) needed when it came to scaling back a schedule featuring #1 Alabama and #2 Notre Dame (certain beat downs) to, as of now, five opponents whose W/L records total 6-14.

[Mdot21]

USC AD didn’t have the money or booster support before the covid crisis to pay a massive buyout- and the powers that be at the school really don’t give a shit about football. As long as Clay Helton graduates players, runs a clean program and is a stand up guy and he wins 9 or so games a year, he’ll never get fired.

It’s perhaps the strangest and poorest of the bluebloods.

People forget Pete Carroll was literally like USC’s 5th choice. They went after 4 other coaches and got turned down by them all before they settled on Carroll. 

[LetsGoPeay]

Not a big time P5 job but South Alabama filled its vacancy with Indiana DC Kane Wommack. 

[Mdot21]

Not a big time P5 job but South Alabama filled its vacancy with Indiana DC Kane Wommack.

I REALLY want Michigan to hire Nick Sheridan and Mike Hart from Indiana. Like REALLY badly. 

[847badgerfan]

Illinois interviewed Bret Bielema on Monday. Also looking at Lance Leipold. 

[847badgerfan]

So, Bret Bielema is back in the B1G.

Champaign, here he comes.

The other finalist was Lance Leipold. I think they picked the wrong guy.

[FearlessF]

maybe picked the wrong guy, but it'll be more fun the have Bert back

[Brutus Buckeye]

Nice! 

[bayareabadger]

Illinois interviewed Bret Bielema on Monday. Also looking at Lance Leipold.

You could have this coach who just wins, or this guy who can be a problem child. I stand by my option thoughts. 

[bayareabadger]

maybe picked the wrong guy, but it'll be more fun the have Bert back

He's a talker that one. He actually built like one awesome defense and two super good offenses in Arkansas. He could never match them and ended up with Harbaugh-style teams that lost close games and were stronger than their record. And then the bottom fell out.