The Coaching Carosel Thread

[TyPenn613]

Lloyd Carr retired Monday after 13 years as Michigan's coach, following a season defined by a startling loss to Appalachian State and yet another defeat by Ohio State.

Carr, groomed for the position by Michigan coaching great Bo Schembechler, led the Wolverines to 121 wins, five Big Ten titles and a national championship.

"On this week of Thanksgiving no one has more to be thankful for than I do," Carr said at a news conference.

The departure by the 62-year-old Carr opens a job at the nation's winningest football program. Les Miles, the coach at No. 1 LSU, seems to be at the top of the list of potential successors. He played for Schembechler at Michigan, where he met his wife and later became an assistant.

Michigan coach Carr steps down after 13 seasons - NCAA Football - Yahoo! Sports

[KingBrodeur]

So Les Miles signed a contract to stay at LSU through 2012. His salary doesn't increase expect in cases where he wins the National Championship, but at least this ends all speculation about his going to Michigan. If his speech last week didn't at least.

Here is the story

So who is in the running for that job at Michigan then? It seemed like to me they figured Miles would come running for the job, have they looked at anyone else?



edit: Just read that Ball St coach Hoke has discussed the job with the Michigan AD.

[TyPenn613]

I don't know how true it is, but I'm hearing through a friend who is a former Fanhomer that Michigan's AD has interest in Rutgers Greg Schiano. I haven't heard anything myself over here at Rutgers, but I won't be all that sad if he departs.

[BulaJacket]

Why do you say that?
Seems like he's done a good job there?
Is he an ass?

[JoJo26]

Why would June Jones be interested in UCLA? The pay is low (900K)...the weather isn't as good as in Hawai'i...and he's an alum there.

Chris Petersen made a magical moment vs. OU...with Hawkings players. Would he leave the 'blue turf' of Boise...for the Rose Bowl and Pete Carroll?

[KingBrodeur]

Well Schaino turned down the job at Michigan to stay at Rutgers. NO one wants to go to Ann Arbour I guess


Also Paul Johnson has left Navy to go down to Georgia Tech. It'll be interesting to see if he turns that program around like he did Navy, or at the very least beat Georgia.

At Navy former Assistant Coach Ken Niumatalolo was promoted to the head coaching job.

[BulaJacket]

SMU was going hard after Paul Johnson.

Don't know who they'll be getting now.

[KingBrodeur]

These are a couple weeks old:

Art Briles has left Houston and joined Baylor. Briles in five seasons with Houston had only one losing season.

Houston Nutt resigned from Arkansas and will now face Arkansas every year as the coach at Ole Miss.

I think we all know that Bo Pelini left his DC spot at LSU to take over the reigns at Nebraska.

Mike Sherman has left his OC spot with NFL's Houston Texans to take over at Texas A&M


Today:

A couple new things. The Associated Press is announcing that Eastern Washington Coach is moving down the road to take over for the Cougars of Washington St.

According to the Detroit Free Press Michigan has re-entered talks with LSU coach Les Miles. Michigan athletic director Bill Martin and university president Mary Sue Coleman spoke with Miles on the phone Friday.

[nova]

LOL.

Bobby Petrino resigned as the Falcons Head Coach and will sign on with Arkansas to be their head coach.

Good move by Arkansas as I think he's a very good college coach, and a great fit for Arkansas.

[BulaJacket]

Pretty good article on the general trend of coaching hirings over the past few years....
Big schools' allure fading

Big schools' allure fading; College have-nots have appeal
By Kirk Bohls

By the time you read this, Michigan may finally have a head football coach. Then again, the Wolverines may just be hoping to hire one before the 2008 season opener against Utah.

After Michigan's fiasco with Les Miles, Greg Schiano was the latest to dance with the Wolverines before deciding to sit this one out. Schiano decided he had a better gig at — gulp — Rutgers.

Arkansas, last we checked, was working hard to convince — what's the count now — candidate No. 4 or 5 to take Houston Nutt's old job. Tommy Bowden couldn't be convinced to leave Clemson for Fayetteville, Butch Davis is staying at North Carolina, and Jim Grobe was the hot name until he decided Wake Forest was a better place to work.

Couldn't ex-Hog Jerry Jones offer Jason Garrett to resurrect his Razorbacks?

Alabama went through the yellow pages a year ago before finally convincing Nick Saban to take its millions.

What in Bo Schembechler's and Frank Broyles' world is going on when blue-blood colleges such as Michigan and Arkansas can't get someone to take their jobs? What does that say about college football?

It says this: No sport is undergoing more drastic change than college football, whose power structure is so irretrievably shaken up that we barely recognize it.

Hawaii in a BCS bowl? Kansas in the Orange Bowl? Illinois headed to the Rose Bowl? What's next? Notre Dame becoming bowl-eligible some year?

All those upsets on the field, all those Appalachian State-style stunners and Stanford-over-USC shockers, are now translating to changes in the business of hiring coaches.

If Michigan and Arkansas can't get whom they want, what chance does SMU or Baylor have? Actually, a better chance.

The Bears did all right, landing outgoing, Mack Brown wannabe Art Briles to exhume the program. And proven head coaches — Gary Barnett and Glen Mason, even Dennis Franchione — were tripping over themselves to line up for the Mustangs vacancy.

Here's what else this means:

A solid coach can win anywhere, in part because there are so many good, undiscovered players who want immediate playing time. Grobe can take the Demon Deacons to a BCS bowl. Hawaii became the third non-BCS conference team to get to one of the money bowls, following Utah and Boise State. South Florida can climb to No. 2. Missouri can go from unranked in the preseason to the brink of the national championship game.

It also means colleges are having to fork over more and more to lure these coaches from former have-nots to their big-money, bigger-pressure schools. Some coaches may be thinking: Who needs the scrutiny of these Park Place and Boardwalk schools?

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