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Coaching changes: coaches hired and fired, comings and goings

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MaxBuck;1827540; said:
Indiana: Mike Leach. Don't kid yourself, Leach carries more baggage than Paris Hilton on a month-long trip to Gstaad, so this is as good a gig as he'll get. But he's desperate, and so is IU, so he'll say yes to the Whosyers. Thereafter Leach will induce fear in all the upper-tier Big Ten coaches, who realize he'll beat them every four years or so with recruits he can find at the local sheltered workshop.
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do you think iu will make this kind of move after the kelvin sanction debacle?
 
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No way Indiana would go after Leach. Sure, it'd be a great fit for both, but after Knight and Sampson, they're not going to take anyone with baggage, especially when the accusation is player abuse.
 
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Navy Coach Ken Niumatalolo has been rumored as a possible candidate for the Minnesota job but Navy is denying the rumor.

Pat Hill makes sense for any Big Ten opening, especially given his style of play. He's a run-first kind of coach whose game would fit the elements - aka weather, something rarely encountered by western and southern teams - commonly dealt with by Big Ten teams.
 
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Just a few more IMOs here.

1. Mike Leach is odd to the max, but he hasn't been the subject of any serious NCAA scrutiny. As for player abuse, I have just four words: Craig James = overinvolved parent. What Leach did to James's spoiled spawn was peculiar, but I struggle to find it truly abusive.

2. Pat Hill is no more likely to win in the Big Ten than countless other minor-conference coaches who have tried and failed here. I offer up Gerry DiNardo (IU), Bill Mallory (IU), Don Morton (Wisconsin), Danny Hope (Purdue) and John L. Smith (MSU) as examples. Joe Tiller and Jim Tressel are obviously examples to the contrary, though both of these were much more impressive than Hill before they came to the Big Ten.

3. Kelly's defenses haven't been extremely effective, but they have been a quantum step better than anything the fans in Ann Arbor have recently seen in home-field colors.

4. Kelly would leave Oregon because Michigan is a far more prestigious and storied program than Nike University is. Similarly, Harbaugh would leave Stanford because ... IT'S FREAKING STANFORD. They are an afterthought on the national stage and they're lucky to draw 15,000 fans to a game even when they're ranked in the Top 10. Granted, Miami doesn't draw well either, but they're in the Eastern Time Zone and they get much more media attention. Plus, the Dolphins are in town.
 
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Jon Embree is an interesting choice for head coach at Colorado - that is, if "stupid" is regarded as a synonym for "interesting."

Embree, a relatively young African-American, is clearly a politically-correct choice who can be expected to placate the liberal dope-smoking alumni base that the Buffs rely upon. That is, until his lack of head coaching experience at any level proves that he's not ready to head a BCS program. Ganjaheads are no different from any other fans in that they demand a winner, so unfortunately this promising young coach will likely end up on the coaching trash heap rather than getting the chance to develop his HC skills in a less pressure-packed environment, say at an FCS (1AA) program.

Kind of too bad for Colorado fans; had they been able to wait a month or two, they could have gotten Marvin Lewis.
 
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As far as I can tell from the San Diego region, (all the way from Gainesville):

SDSU receieved a $5 million anonymous donation to restructure Brady Hoke and his staff's contracts to give a substantial pay-raise and increase the retention package.

Hoke is probably not going to leave the position currently unless the offer comes from college football's blue-bloods. Minnesota would be mostly a side-step in his career. I mean, SDSU will try to pay him ~$1.2-1.7 million annually for the foreseeable future, (if he chooses, he may be SDSU's version of Gary Patterson) until a job like Michigan opens up. Minnesota will pay him... ~$2.5 million for 3 years and then fire him? Hoke would be smart to build SDSU for 1-3 more years and then move on to Michigan, Texas A&M or something along those lines.

Hoke is a former Michigan assistant coach as well from his time with Jack Harbaugh and he has a link to the Schembechler/Carr regime. I imagine that if Michigan keeps Rodriguez for another year, and if Hoke continues to succeed, then he will be considered as a second-tier candidate for Michigan after the 2011 season.

I think that I see it this way:

Miami: Dan Mullen
Michigan: Keep Rodriguez
Minnesota: Gus Malzahn (if he wants to leave the South)
Indiana: maybe Mike Haywood?
 
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New Indiana coach

Sorry this was already posted at State of Indiana football I wonder if Minnesota even bother looking at him or I wonder if he would have been even interested in that job.

http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/forum/college-football/612245-state-indiana-football-3.html
The Indiana Hoosiers are set to hire Oklahoma's offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson to be their new head coach Tuesday.

A person with knowledge of the search requested anonymity because the announcement wasn't yet official, confirmed the deal to The Associated Press on Monday night.

Wilson will become the Hoosiers' sixth coach since 1996, and the move comes less than two weeks after athletic director Fred Glass fired Bill Lynch. Lynch posted losing records in each of his last three seasons in Bloomington and won only three Big Ten games over the same three-year span after leading Indiana to a bowl game in 2007, Indiana's first postseason appearance since 1993.

According to reports in Oklahoma, Wilson told reporters there that he interviewed in Indianapolis on Monday but was not immediately offered the job. After returning to Oklahoma, he was offered the job.

Terms were not immediately available, but Wilson just received a pay raise to $430,000 per year in October.

Some players and former players were already tweeting about the decision Monday night.
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http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefoo...o-hire-Oklahoma-assistant-Kevin-Wilson-120610
 
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Diego-Bucks;1827869; said:
As far as I can tell from the San Diego region, (all the way from Gainesville):

SDSU receieved a $5 million anonymous donation to restructure Brady Hoke and his staff's contracts to give a substantial pay-raise and increase the retention package.

Hoke is probably not going to leave the position currently unless the offer comes from college football's blue-bloods. Minnesota would be mostly a side-step in his career. I mean, SDSU will try to pay him ~$1.2-1.7 million annually for the foreseeable future, (if he chooses, he may be SDSU's version of Gary Patterson) until a job like Michigan opens up. Minnesota will pay him... ~$2.5 million for 3 years and then fire him? Hoke would be smart to build SDSU for 1-3 more years and then move on to Michigan, Texas A&M or something along those lines.

Hoke is a former Michigan assistant coach as well from his time with Jack Harbaugh and he has a link to the Schembechler/Carr regime. I imagine that if Michigan keeps Rodriguez for another year, and if Hoke continues to succeed, then he will be considered as a second-tier candidate for Michigan after the 2011 season.

I think that I see it this way:

Miami: Dan Mullen
Michigan: Keep Rodriguez
Minnesota: Gus Malzahn (if he wants to leave the South)
Indiana: maybe Mike Haywood?
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I don't see a good reason for Mullen to leave MSU for Miamuh. He's building something good at MSU. Really can't believe they won't look at Mike Leach.

TSUN - seems like they're committed to RRod for one more. :)

Minnetonka - No way Malzahn goes there. Pity they couldn't get a guy like Schiano but I couldn't ever see him going there either.

Indiana - Looks like they'll move on w/ Kevin Wilson.
 
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