NCAA Coaching Carousel: NMSU Promotes OC Doug Martin To HC

[FirstTimer]

Bob Diaco has been interviewed by BC and Cal

If Diaco takes the Boston College job. FML.

 

[Jayrock]

If Diaco takes the Boston College job. FML.

If he takes any job, FML. Especially if he takes BC.

Here's to hoping his search doesn't affect the NC game.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

LOL at Aaron Lynch

Gotta be the dumbest transfer I've seen in a long time.

 

[FirstTimer]

Gotta be the dumbest transfer I've seen in a long time.

Why's that? I know in my view but as an ND guy it's biased. Interested to hear yours.

 

[Rudi]

Purdue hired Kent St coach Darrell Hazell. Former OSU assistant under Tressel.

 

[SuperKevin]

Malzahn took the Auburn job

 

[RyanLeaf16]

Willie Taggart is going to interview w/USF.

 

[Rudi]

Boston College hired Temple coach Steve Addazio

 

[RyanLeaf16]

WEIRD...FIU fires Mario Cristobal

WEIRD...FIU fires Mario Cristobal

WTF?!?!?!

 

[TheImmortalGoud]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/21275669/fiu-fires-mario-cristobal

It was only a year ago when Mario Cristobal was considered one of the hottest coaching prospects in the nation. Schools like Rutgers wanted him to leave his job at FIU and move on to bigger and better places, but no matter who came knocking, Cristobal chose to remain at Florida International.

But now FIU has decided to let Cristobal go.

“Today we informed Coach [Mario] Cristobal that a change was being made in the direction of our football program," said FIU athletic director Pete Garcia in the official release. "I want to thank Coach for all that he has done to develop the football program over the past six seasons. We will now turn our attention to attract the very best candidate to fill the position of head coach. We will begin a national search immediately.”

Which is a surprising decision given Cristobal's status before the season began. He went only 27-47 in his six seasons at the school, but he literally helped build the program. Cristobal was only the second head coach in the school's history. After going 9-27 in Crostobal's first three seasons, FIU went 15-11 in 2010 and 2011, winning a Sun Belt title and appearing in two straight bowl games -- the school's first bowl games.

You'd think that achievement would buy Cristobal a little slack at the school, but it seems he couldn't survive a 3-9 mark in 2012.

The general public aren't the only people surprised by this news, either. An assistant coach at the school told CBSSports.com's Bruce Feldman that he was shocked by the news, as he's currently out on the road recruiting and doesn't know what he's supposed to do. There's even a recruit coming for an official visit on Wednesday and the staff has no idea what to tell him.

"We have no direction right now whatsoever," the coach told Feldman.

Where FIU goes from here remains to be seen, but odds are Cristobal won't have trouble catching on somewhere else.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Mario and the administration went at it A LOT. Would love for Mario to come back and replace Kehoe as the OL coach. Very very good coach.

Rumor has it that Butch Davis is FIU's top target.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Also, Leaf might get his wish...I heard Taggart was a superstar in the interview with USF.

 

[SuperKevin]

Huge mistake in firing Cristobal. If I were USF I'd bring him in for an interview ASAP

 

[Senser81]

Mario and the administration went at it A LOT.

What does the FIU administration want from their football program? I thought they fired Don Strock because of the brawl with Miami, then they hire an ex-Hurricane in his place...who they then fire after he takes the program to two bowl games.

Reminds me of how my ficticious NCAA 2007 Yukon State cupcake school fired me after going 5-7 in the 2nd year of my 3 year deal. Fuck those guys.

 

[NAHSTE]

App. State fired Jerry Moore, after he won three consecutive national titles at one point and 10 SoCon titles in the last 18 years. Puzzling.

 

[TheImmortalGoud]

Jon Wilner ‏@wilnerhotline
Source: San Jose State coach Mike MacIntyre no longer involved in Cal search

Jon Wilner ‏@wilnerhotline
On Cal search: It's either Dykes, or the Bears are doing a REALLY good job keeping this thing quiet.

Bruce Feldman ‏@BFeldmanCBS
Just spoke to Cal AD Sandy Barbour. Said she expects to name new football coach by next week.

 

[Sportsbuck]

App. State fired Jerry Moore, after he won three consecutive national titles at one point and 10 SoCon titles in the last 18 years. Puzzling.

Not fired... he 'retired'. His OC is stepping up to take the job. Think Bobby Bowden/Jimbo Fisher.

 

[NAHSTE]

Not fired... he 'retired'. His OC is stepping up to take the job. Think Bobby Bowden/Jimbo Fisher.

Yeah it sounded like it wasn't totally voluntary.

 

[Sportsbuck]

Purdue hired Kent St coach Darrell Hazell. Former OSU assistant under Tressel.

Hazell will do fantastic. Back before Tattoogate it was generally assumed he was going to come back in a few years to take over the reins for Tressel.

 

[TheImmortalGoud]

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/eye-on-college-football/21281227/

After weeks of speculation, one of the most eligible coaching candidates of 2012 has found his match. Confirming earlier reports, California said in a statement Wednesday night that it has hired Louisiana Tech coach Sonny Dykes to replace Jeff Tedford, who was fired last month on the heels of a 3-9 debacle in his eleventh season. A press conference to introduce Dykes later this week, after Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour returns from the annual convention of the American Football Coaches Association in New York.

"Sonny Dykes is one of the brightest offensive minds in the country, running a high-octane style of football, one that I'm certain will allow our student-athletes to thrive and that our community will love on game day," Barbour said in the statement. "However, it was far more than his history of a top-ranked offense and his proven success on the football field that solidified my decision; it was the way he described his responsibility to the University at large and his commitment to creating a climate of comprehensive excellence and success for his student-athletes."

Dykes took over in Ruston for Tennessee-bound Derek Dooley in January 2010, and immediately made Tech over in the pass-happy image of the "Air Raid" attacks he helped mold as an assistant at Kentucky, Texas Tech and Arizona. After a losing (5-7) record in Dykes' first season, the 2011 Bulldogs went 6-1 in WAC play en route to their first conference championship in a decade, and followed that up this year by spending five weeks in the top 25 over the course of a 9-1 start. Back-to-back losses to Utah State and San Jose State to end the season knocked Tech out of the polls and ultimately out of a bowl game, as well – to everyone's surprise – but couldn't knock the offense from the top of the national rankings, where the Bulldogs finished No. 1 in scoring and No. 2 in total offense.

In twelve games this season, Louisiana Tech scored at least 50 points in eight of them, and at least 40 points in all but one. Quarterback Colby Cameron finished second nationally in passing yards and attempts per game, and his top target, Quinton Patton, finished fourth with 1,392 yards on 104 catches. Despite the emphasis on Patton, six different Bulldog receivers had at least 24 receptions, while still leaving room for running backs Kenneth Dixon and Ray Holley to combine for 1,934 yards and 34 touchdowns on the ground. Only Marshall averaged more plays per game.

In Berkeley, he'll inherit a program coming off arguably the best decade since World War II under Tedford, who left last month as Cal's all-time winningest coach. But the program had become increasingly stagnant since 2006, when the Bears won a share of their first conference championship in 31 years, gradually losing ground in the West Coast pecking order to Oregon, Washington and (worst of all) Stanford. After rising to No. 2 in the national polls in October 2007, the Bears dropped six of their next seven to close that season, and haven't finished within three games of a conference or division title since. Against their rivals, they've lost nine straight to USC, four straight to Oregon, four straight to Washington and three straight to Stanford. Since rising to No. 19 over Thanksgiving weekend, 2009, the Bears haven't appeared in the polls at any point in the last three years.

The most obvious sign of decline was at quarterback, where Tedford – once considered college football's most bankable quarterback guru for his track record of molding first-round draft picks – failed to develop a successful starter after Aaron Rodgers' departure for the draft in 2005. Dykes' resumé and reputation suggest a wide-open offense reminiscent of the attacks that initially lifted Cal out of the doldrums over the first half of Tedford's tenure. He has just as far to go now as Tedford did ten years ago, but if he's remotely as successful out of the gate, this will be one of the better hires of the winter.