Was the 2016-17 coaching cycle one of the best of the decade? (04/14)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew reviews the carousel that saw Oklahoma, LSU and Texas choose new coaches. First, reaction to Eddie George's hire at Tennessee State, including how his fit in Nashville gives both coach and program a chance to succeed (2:00) and some in-show breaking news regarding the NCAA and the transfer portal (19:00). Then it's on to reviewing the coaching carousel of 2016-17, highlighting the fact that more than half of the hires are not only still at the same job but many have been home run hires (23:30). Plus, of the Group of Five hires from that cycle who is the next coach to make the move to Power Five (36:00) and beyond the obvious Big 12 titles and College Football Playoff appearances how do we look at Lincoln Riley's time at Oklahoma (44:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fonelli, 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. |
| 0:20.4 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.3 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:28.9 | Tom Fonelli, that's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:32.3 | We are going back in the time machine. |
| 0:34.5 | If you remember a few weeks ago, we took a look back at the coaching hires of the 2017-2018 |
| 0:42.9 | coaching carousel. |
| 0:44.3 | It was interesting because we saw like Dan Mullin at Florida, Jim Bo Fisher at Texas |
| 0:49.3 | A&M. |
| 0:50.3 | We were thinking like, wow, those are really impactful hires. |
| 0:52.7 | We also had Chad Morris fired, Willie Taggart fired. |
| 0:56.9 | And a number of other hires that haven't worked out as much. |
| 1:01.1 | We've got now, we're stepping back one more year into the past, the 2016-2017 coaching |
| 1:07.7 | carousel. |
| 1:09.2 | The reviewing, not only the hires, are thoughts at the time. |
| 1:13.4 | And also, you know, how these different coaches are, the ones who are still in place, how |
| 1:18.5 | they're doing. |
| 1:19.5 | And just as a little tease, as we're going to get into it in a little bit, I might argue |
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