Coaching Carousel Grades: Rating every 2020-21 college football hire (02/17)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is here to give you the latest in the world of college football. It’s time to grade ALL of the coaching hires in the 2021 cycle so far. Were there any big surprises? Tom had originally thought that there wouldn’t be much shake up. (5:35) How do we grade the Steve Sarkisian hire at Texas? (14:10) Shane Beamer at South Carolina. (18:37) Clark Lea at Vanderbilt. (24:15) Auburn hires Bryan Harsin. (30:20) Josh Heupel at Tennessee. (38:00) Bret Bielema at Illinois. (44:05) Jed Fisch hired at Arizona. (47:00) Gus Malzahn at UCF. (50:00) Andy Avalos at Boise State. (54:19) Utah State hires Blake Anderson. (58:00) Charles Huff at Marshall. (1:01:00) Will Hall hired at Southern Miss (1:04:00) Butch Jones at Arkansas State. (1:07:50) Terry Bowden at Louisiana-Monroe. (1:10:00) Kane Wommack hired at South Alabama.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.3 | Cannell, and Bob Elliott. |
| 0:11.9 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the |
| 0:16.8 | National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.1 | That's Tom Fernelli. |
| 0:31.1 | That's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:33.1 | Very excited to be with you as we finally can put the 2020 2021 coaching carousel to |
| 0:41.5 | bed. |
| 0:42.5 | And so we're going to do it with a little bit of a breakdown, a little bit of a review, |
| 0:45.9 | and of course our grades for each and every higher in total. |
| 0:51.6 | We have 15 of them. |
| 0:53.6 | Seven of them came from the power five. |
| 0:55.6 | Eight of them came from the group of five. |
| 0:57.4 | We are going to at least give a grade and a comment for each and every one of these. |
| 1:04.0 | It was an extensive coaching season as we began all the way back with Southern Miss. |
| 1:13.1 | Right? |
| 1:14.1 | That's where this thing started in earnest back in like week three, where Jay Hopson leaves |
| 1:22.7 | and then the interim coach then also leaves. |
| 1:28.3 | But we will get to that Southern Miss, of course, will haul former Tulane offensive coordinator |
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