Meet the first-year head coaches: Best, worst, and surprise hires + who will have the best year 1?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
24 new head coaches were named in the last hiring cycle. But, which programs nailed their hiring and which didn't? Ari, David, and Chris introduce this year's class of new head honchos and discuss the programs that got it right, wrong, and those that surprised us.
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| 0:29.9 | Music Hey everyone. Welcome to Until Saturday. Chris Vinini here. Before we get started, I just wanted to give a disclaimer that we recorded this episode about first year head coaches before the Colorado Big 12 news. |
| 0:55.6 | There is a section when we get into Dion Sanders, obviously, and we talk about some |
| 1:00.4 | Pact 12 as well. So if you're wondering why there isn't any Colorado Big 12 conversation in that |
| 1:05.9 | part, it's just because it didn't happen yet. It doesn't ultimately change any of the takes |
| 1:10.5 | that we had on Dion era in Boulder, but we just wanted to let you know. |
| 1:14.6 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:17.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:18.2 | Chris is going to be firing on all cylinders, I think. |
| 1:20.3 | So we've got a pretty juicy show here as we continue to preview this season in a one month period where we have an episode every single day, |
| 1:28.8 | Monday through Friday leading into week zero. |
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