As the teams begin their preparation for this year's chase for the championship, we have a lot of new hands on the respective tillers of many of the major football programs. In plain English, there's a lot of new head coaches out there.
Most are the used car version of new coaches, that is, they have some mileage on them, but they're new to wherever they are now.
There are 124 Division I college football programs. 27 of those have new coaches for the 2012 season. That is 22 percent, and that is one heck of an attrition rate. If you want to peruse the entire list, click here. I'll stick to the highlights.
The big departure is Joe Paterno, out at Penn State, in at hell. Out of the hell that is New Mexico State is Mike Locksley, who couldn't beat anybody. He is being replaced by none other than former ND coach and ESPN announcer Bob Davie, whom I will miss more as an announcer than I will appreciate as a coach.
A couple of our faves have exited since last season. Another old fellow who left (his job, not the planet) is the venerable Howard Schnellenberger, departed from Florida Atlantic. Nobody ever shed a tear for dear old Rutgers lost highly successful Greg Schiano to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Controversial coaches who've re-arrived include Mike Leach at Washington State and Urban "No Soul" Meyer at Ohio State. Rich Rodriguez follows his not so wonderful tenure at Michigan by assuming the top job at Arizona.
Farewell to Ron Zook at Illinois, replaced by Tim Beckman, ex of the Toledo Rockets of the Mighty MAC. Adios too to Bobby Petrino, who crashed the motorcycle he was riding while a grad assistant --whom he was also riding, though not at the time-- was perched on the back, term'd at Arkansas.
Rick Neuheisel finally ran out of runway at UCLA. He is being replaced by Jim Mora, whose father, Jim Mora (pictured above), became famous as a coach when they used his post game comments in a beer commercial. Coach Jim the dad was eventually sacked, too, but that's not news anymore, though I was momentarily confused as to why UCLA would bring in a 77 year old to coach. Howard Schnellenger just became unemployed at age 78, by the way, and Joe Paterno was 86 at the time of his passing, so it wasn't completely implausible. Just "mostly implausible".
I have an idea for a new wager for next season, a variation on The Dead Pool, using D1 football coaches losing their jobs. Wanna play?
Most are the used car version of new coaches, that is, they have some mileage on them, but they're new to wherever they are now.
There are 124 Division I college football programs. 27 of those have new coaches for the 2012 season. That is 22 percent, and that is one heck of an attrition rate. If you want to peruse the entire list, click here. I'll stick to the highlights.
The big departure is Joe Paterno, out at Penn State, in at hell. Out of the hell that is New Mexico State is Mike Locksley, who couldn't beat anybody. He is being replaced by none other than former ND coach and ESPN announcer Bob Davie, whom I will miss more as an announcer than I will appreciate as a coach.
A couple of our faves have exited since last season. Another old fellow who left (his job, not the planet) is the venerable Howard Schnellenberger, departed from Florida Atlantic. Nobody ever shed a tear for dear old Rutgers lost highly successful Greg Schiano to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Controversial coaches who've re-arrived include Mike Leach at Washington State and Urban "No Soul" Meyer at Ohio State. Rich Rodriguez follows his not so wonderful tenure at Michigan by assuming the top job at Arizona.
Farewell to Ron Zook at Illinois, replaced by Tim Beckman, ex of the Toledo Rockets of the Mighty MAC. Adios too to Bobby Petrino, who crashed the motorcycle he was riding while a grad assistant --whom he was also riding, though not at the time-- was perched on the back, term'd at Arkansas.
Rick Neuheisel finally ran out of runway at UCLA. He is being replaced by Jim Mora, whose father, Jim Mora (pictured above), became famous as a coach when they used his post game comments in a beer commercial. Coach Jim the dad was eventually sacked, too, but that's not news anymore, though I was momentarily confused as to why UCLA would bring in a 77 year old to coach. Howard Schnellenger just became unemployed at age 78, by the way, and Joe Paterno was 86 at the time of his passing, so it wasn't completely implausible. Just "mostly implausible".
I have an idea for a new wager for next season, a variation on The Dead Pool, using D1 football coaches losing their jobs. Wanna play?
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