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Coaching changes: coaches hired and fired, comings and goings

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ORD_Buckeye said:
Which is supposed to mean what? Wiscy simply isn't making the academic exceptions for its football program that other big time schools are. Yes, they're making exceptions but to nowhere the degree of most.
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Which seems like pretty much the right way to do it. I think we agree that the question is whether a school lets in kids who are unlikely to be able to do the academic work. a 23 ACT probably can do the work. A 15 . . . less likely.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
I'll give Wiscy credit. They were one of the schools that recently released data to CNN on football players' test scores, and they easily showed the best of those schools that did and, safe to say, the many schools who refused to provide data.

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/01/us/college-scores/

That being said that average ACT of 23 still is 5-6 full points lower than the average for a normal freshman.
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I assume something similar has been posted elsewhere but this link provides a nice tabular summary of B1G school ACT profiles. Tables are available for other conferences.
http://collegeapps.about.com/od/theact/a/big-ten-act-scores.htm
 
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http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i...t_to_ralph_friedgen_not_returning_as_rut.html
Ralph Friedgen not expected to return as Rutgers offensive coordinator

Ralph Friedgen is not expected to return as Rutgers offensive coordinator for the 2015 season, two people familiar with the decision process told NJ Advance Media on Monday.

The people requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about athletic department personnel.

Rutgers head coach Kyle Flood didn't immediately respond to two requests for comment, including one made through a school spokesperson, but the two people told NJ Advance Media that Friedgen is leaning toward not returning and Flood's plan is to announce his new offensive coordinator at the same time as acknowledging Friedgen's retirement.

Reached on his cell phone after news of Friedgen's expected departure broke, Flood declined comment but said he would likely hold a teleconference on the situation Tuesday.

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Doug Davis: 1981-2015 Purdue senior associate director of sports performance Doug Davis has passed away following an illness.

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    May 13, 2015
    Purdue senior associate director of sports performance Doug Davis has passed away following an illness. He was 33.

    "My heart and the heart of the Purdue family is saddened by the loss of Doug Davis," head football coach Darrell Hazel said. "He will surely be missed. He was a great man, who worked tirelessly to make people better. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family."

    Davis joined the Boilermaker staff in 2013. He came to Purdue after spending the 2011 and 2012 seasons working with Hazell at Kent State. From 2007 to 2010, Davis was a strength assistant at Ohio State University, where Hazell was the wide receivers coach.

    Prior to his stint at Ohio State, Davis was a strength and conditioning coach at the University of South Florida. He earned his bachelor's degree from Ohio Dominican University in 2004 and his master's degree in exercise science from California University of Pennsylvania in 2009.

    Arrangements are pending.
 
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http://www.campusrush.com/al-golden-miami-usc-coaching-corousel-1423076703.html

WITH SEVEN JOBS ALREADY OPEN AND MANY OTHERS ON HORIZON, COACHING CAROUSEL MORE VOLATILE THAN EVER
BY PETE THAMEL
26 OCTOBER 2015

The firing of Miami coach Al Golden and retirement of Central Florida's George O'Leary on Sunday raised the total of open FBS coaching jobs to seven. The sport is on pace for its most tumultuous off-season in history, as there projects to be more than 30 jobs open before the coaching carousel finishes spinning.
How much more volatile has college football become in the last decade? Consider that 10 years ago (2005-06) there were four power conference jobs (11 total) open. Already in this cycle there are five power conference jobs open, a number that could reach 15 by the end of the year.

There are so many jobs destined to open, one administrator pointed out Sunday night that there could be a counter-intuitive impact on the market. Could a struggling school like Purdue or Iowa State end up waiting another year to fire their coach to avoid the chaos of a competitive market? That's where we are, as crazy as it sounds.

Here's the annual midseason job board analyzing what jobs could open and the likely targets of those schools. As always, information is based on interviews with agents, coaches, search firms and athletic directors. They are broken down by where we rank the job within its conference—top third, middle third and bottom third and listed alphabetically in each category.

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OHSportsFan said:
Coaching free-for-all this offseason. Goodness.
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It sure will be - plenty of good young coaches though and established coordinators, shouldn't be too many reaches.

Tom Herman (even after just a year), Justin Fuente, Matt Rhule, Doc Holiday (not young...), Dino Babers, Matt Campbell, PJ Fleck, Scott Satterfield, Willie Fritz......then you go into the usual suspects on coordinators and former coaches like Kirby Smart, Greg Schiano, Chip Kelly, etc. etc.

It's a great time to be reloading. Have to wonder if Nebraska realizes they screwed this up, make a quick call to Fuente and I think he'd take it in a snap but that makes too much sense.
 
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I'd be shocked if foster isn't promoted to follow up Beamer. If he's not, though, and they do open a coaching search that's another one like Maryland where the job is very good based on recruiting base alone. I'd say it's better than Maryland due to recent reputation. Would love to see Herman get a chance there.

Its kind of tough, because you kind of want to see him give Houston 2 years out if respect, kind of like urban requests from assistants, but with so many openings at good places, it'd be tough not to. And who knows what's out there next year. Best case for him is strong gets fired next year and he goes to Texas, but you can't bank on that.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
It sure will be - plenty of good young coaches though and established coordinators, shouldn't be too many reaches.

Tom Herman (even after just a year), Justin Fuente, Matt Rhule, Doc Holiday (not young...), Dino Babers, Matt Campbell, PJ Fleck, Scott Satterfield, Willie Fritz......then you go into the usual suspects on coordinators and former coaches like Kirby Smart, Greg Schiano, Chip Kelly, etc. etc.

It's a great time to be reloading. Have to wonder if Nebraska realizes they screwed this up, make a quick call to Fuente and I think he'd take it in a snap but that makes too much sense.
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They absolutely need to cut bait with Riley, but it's looking like less and less of a good idea for them to be re-entering the market this offseason. USC, Miami, Virginia Tech and South Carolina are all better jobs so they're fifth in line before we even get to the vacancies come up at the end of the season.
 
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