…..He is going, He is staying, He is going, He is staying…
It happens every year at this time in the college football ranks. Coaches leaving, coaches staying, rumors, innuendo, they are everywhere involving coaches.
So here are a couple that we have heard, some might come true, some might not. But here they are.
1) West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez to be the new head coach at Alabama. Paul Bryant Jr. was spotted in West Virginia on Monday. Now why would a guy from Alabama go to West Virginia in late November? To listen to John Denver music? We will have to wait and see.
It is true that they asked Spurrier about the job and offered to buy him out of his South Carolina deal and offered him 10 year, 33 million. University says that isn’t so but I am sure he was contacted by some booster or boosters with a lot of money to do it. Spurrier turned it down and that was probably a good move for him.
2) This is the one that keeps coming back and back and back. Bill Cowher heading to N.C. State. Cowher said himself that last year getting to the Super Bowl was the hardest coaching year of his life. His youngest daughter goes to N.C.State, his wife just bought a huge vacation home there and N.C. State has an opening. Cowher denied it on Thursday but then again, don’t coaches deny everything anyway.
3) Dave Mcginnis of the Titans going to Arizona State. Mcginnis is a former head coach with the Arizona Cardinals and loves the southwest. Also, it is reported that Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow might go with him, and Chow is also mentioned for the N.C. State job because he coached there back in 2000.
4) Pat Sullivan will be named the new head coach at UAB. Watson Brown will be the fulltime A.D. and will let Sullivan run the team.
5) Fomer Vandy player, now current Cowboy coach Mike Mcintyre, will be named head coach at Samford University.
6) Former Tennessee Offensive Coordinator and current Kentucky assistant coach Randy Sanders will be named the new head coach at Tennessee Tech.
Once again, most are rumors but rumors 99 percent of time are grounded in some sort of truth. The most intriguing one has to be Rodriguez, going to Bama from West Virginia. If he does, expect LSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher to be named head coach at West Virginia, or they are saying Jimbo Fisher will be the new offensive coordinator at Florida State.
Let the carousel begin.
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on November 30th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Good stuff Joe. Juicy C is often compelled by the coaching carousel as well and you’re absolutely right, don’t believe a word any of them say! When Juicy C looks at your list, the one that sticks out most is N.C. State. Sounds like a good fit for Chow who probably wants to be head coach at some point before his coaching career comes to an end. Juicy C says “good luck” to Norm and the rest of them.