Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Wolverine Wednesday: Coaching Changes Outside of Ann Arbor

Will there be any coaching changes on Brady Hoke's staff this year?   If there are (and there should be) I expect them to come after signing day, in about a month.   Michigan doesn't want to upset the apple cart before the class in finalized.  Of course this is all just a pipe dream because everyone believes Brady Hoke doesn't want to fire Big Al.  

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

So we will look at some changes and some rumored candidates:

  • Reports are that Louisville is looking at MSU's Pat Narduzzi and Bobby Petrino for their head coaching job.  My guess is that they are more interested in Pat then re-hiring Bobby who has been everywhere since he left Louisville.   Don't they know that John L. Smith is available?  Update:  Looks like I'm wrong as Louisville is going to hire Petrino.

  • It sounds like Vandy's James Franklin could be Penn State's next coach.   If they hire him Michigan would get to see teams lead by Franklin, Meyer and Dantonio every year.   Does Michigan have the coaching IQ to coach against some of the best coaches in the country?

  • How is that hire at Texas going over?  Red McCombs is to Texas as Stephen Ross is to Michigan.  He said this about the hire of Charlie Strong:  "I think the whole thing is a bit sideways," McCombs said of the selection process during an interview with ESPN 1250 San Antonio. "I don't have any doubt that Charlie is a fine coach. I think he would make a great position coach, maybe a coordinator. "But I don't believe [he belongs at] what should be one of the three most powerful university programs in the world right now at UT-Austin. I don't think it adds up."  For the record, I think Red is way off base and that Charlie is on the best young coaches in college football and could be at Texas for the next 20 years.

  • Big Mark Mangino is back in coaching as Iowa State's OC.


1 comment:

Scott K said...

Big Al is gone!!!! Big Al is gone!!!!