Grading the Coaching Carousel
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Stewart Mandel and Bruce Feldman give their takes on the best and most underwhelming coaching hires during silly season. Who will have more success in the Magnolia State, Lane Kiffin or Mike Leach? Bobby Petrino is lands at Missouri State. After winning the title, LSU has had a mass exodus on and off the field. D’Eriq King & Quincy Roche transfer to Miami. Should 'Canes fans get excited or temper expectations? Mailbag!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:23.3 | We've had a little bit of distance now from the national championship game. |
| 0:27.6 | Bruce, you've mostly been focused on the coaching carousel, which knock on wood is winding down. |
| 0:35.4 | Almost do. |
| 0:36.8 | The head coaching carousel, we're taping this on Wednesday, and late last night on the |
| 0:42.8 | West Coast, way west coast, Todd Graham got back in the coaching business, and that was |
| 0:48.9 | the last head coaching hire, but there's still a lot of coordinator moves, a lot of |
| 0:51.9 | other assistant stuff that I think will be going on for probably the next couple of weeks. So that is keeping some of us pretty busy. |
| 0:59.3 | But yeah, it's time to take stock in as what we're going to do on the podcast today. Now that we think |
| 1:06.6 | all the head coaching vacancies in FBS are filled. It's time to get our thoughts on the hires we really liked and the hires we are a little bit |
| 1:16.2 | skeptical of. |
| 1:17.5 | So in the end, there were 22 FBS head coaching jobs that turned over. |
| 1:21.9 | That seems like a fairly normal number. |
| 1:26.0 | All right. |
| 1:26.6 | Well, like you said, let's, why we started out with this? |
| 1:29.3 | 22 of the 22 hires, which one do you think was the best hire? |
| 1:35.2 | The higher that I like the most, actually, I'm going to give you one is a sitting head coach |
| 1:41.9 | and one is a first time head coach. |
| 1:43.5 | The sitting head coach hire I like the most is actually Nick Rolovich at Washington State. |
| 1:48.7 | Here's why. |
| 1:49.8 | I think he was going to leave. |
| 1:51.6 | He's going to take and fill big shoes in Mike Leach, big personality made Wazoo nationally relevant. |
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