Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2001
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The coaching carousel before the 2001 season transformed college football. Some programs set themselves up for national championship (or even dynastic) runs. Some screwed themselves. Some set the stage for the next several decades of the top tiers of the SEC and Big Ten. In this episode, Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson, and Steven Godfrey take a fine-toothed comb through the consequential coaching cycle at the end of 2000:
* The hires that worked really well (Gary Patterson to TCU, Pete Carroll to USC, Jim Tressel to Ohio State, Rich Rodriguez to WVU, and many more)
* The hires that fell flat (hello, UNC and Arizona)
* The hires that shaped college football to this day
* The what-if scenarios that nearly made it all different
* Ohio State and Georgia shopping for upgrades
* A reevaluation of Larry Coker?
* Class superlatives, including the Ellis Johnson Southern Miss Award for missed opportunities, the Coaching Carousel Global Impact Award for the most profound ripple effects, and Hire of the Year
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Producer: Anthony Vito
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're coming, and we ain't backing down. |
| 0:02.1 | We don't need a bunch of cats in here. |
| 0:03.6 | Looking in the mirror. |
| 0:04.8 | Everybody just do your job. |
| 0:07.0 | You understand that? |
| 0:07.9 | Hey, will you shut up? |
| 0:08.9 | I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. |
| 0:11.4 | Guys being dudes. |
| 0:12.6 | And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, fuck it. |
| 0:16.5 | Thank you, Lee. |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you, Stephen Godfrey. |
| 0:19.8 | Thank you, Lee. Thank you, Stephen Godfrey. Thank you, Richard Johnson. |
| 0:22.2 | Tell us, how are we? |
| 0:23.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:33.4 | I will say, I appreciate the fact that via a complete misunderstanding, I think we have a very interesting show concept here. |
| 0:35.0 | What's the misunderstanding? |
| 0:38.2 | See, Godfrey, this is what happens. |
| 0:48.0 | Me and Alex were texting about just ideas for, you know, future subscription shows and ideas to get us through our long winter's night here in the off season. |
| 0:50.6 | And I texted Alex and I was like, hey, here's an idea. |
| 0:56.9 | I think we should walk through a coaching hire cycle that was of specific interest in the past that people may have forgotten about or what have you because during |
| 1:01.3 | the North Carolina coaching search, the most recent one, uh, for Belichick, I stumbled upon the thing |
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