2024 Coaching Carousel gets an early start…

[KryHavok]

Are all these early firings so teams can get a head start on the portal with a new staff? I don't understand why we can't just do one portal in the spring and let the season fully play out in the fall. Would be a much better way to treat people like Don Brown.

You figure once a coach is fired, players will be free to enter the portal. By firing the coach and trying to hire as quickly as possible, it gives the incoming coach(es) time to evaluate & retain current players while also looking into the portal to see who can be brought in. By the time spring comes around, the framework of the team (but definitely not the final version) should be in place. I agree with you that the portal should be just a once yearly event, but I don't think we're heading there. College free agency is here, for better or worse, and we'll see less building and more restocking (and not just because of graduation) every year.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[ZooCougar]

Agree. Of all the candidates I have seen potentially listed for UMass, the only one that bothers me is Harasymiak.

He is a talented up and coming coach who I thought would have been a decent fit at UConn before we hired Mora.

He’s a talented up and coming coach and that’s why he will avoid the job like the plague.

Don Brown is a UMass football luminary. If they won’t give him some leeway why would they grant it to anyone else?

They will end up with someone who wants a HC job badly and is really willing to roll the dice.

 

[Purple Stein]

A better comparison for Deion is Jim Harbaugh. Different skin colors, different styles, and slightly different personal situations, but both former NFL players who started coaching at FCS (Jackson St and San Diego), went to mid-tier power schools (Colorado and Stanford) before heading to the pros (if Deion ends up with the Cowboys).

I'm not a fan of either guy but I appreciate that they both worked their way up.

 

[DoctorWho85]

They could get Urban Meyer and I wouldn't worry about them.

The difference between UMass and UConn is us. We have a much larger support base and it isn't even close...

UMass should get relatively better once they join the MAC. It's more money for their AD than they're etting now and they won't have 8 absolute blowouts every year.

 

[UConnDan97]

UMass should get relatively better once they join the MAC. It's more money for their AD than they're etting now and they won't have 8 absolute blowouts every year.

There are pros and cons to that schedule, though. They might not be able to get a many "pay days" from visiting the SEC and others once they have a proper conference schedule.

But even if it's additional money, it's not a lot more. From what I've read, it's about $2 million per year tv money. We get about 8 million from the Big East (if I'm correct about the contract) and an additional 0.5 million from CBS football.

So...a much smaller contract plus a much smaller fan base = I'm not worried about UMass...

 

[Palatine]

There is no "i" in team but there is one in Deion.

The odds on him returning to Colorado are pretty slim. And if he does, it's unlikely he will have much success with out his son.

He would love to go with his his son to Vegas. I would love to see it just for the entertainment value. It should be a sh%t storm.

 

[Windham4th]

Nick Charlton to UMass.

 

[DoctorWho85]

There are pros and cons to that schedule, though. They might not be able to get a many "pay days" from visiting the SEC and others once they have a proper conference schedule.

But even if it's additional money, it's not a lot more. From what I've read, it's about $2 million per year tv money. We get about 8 million from the Big East (if I'm correct about the contract) and an additional 0.5 million from CBS football.

So...a much smaller contract plus a much smaller fan base = I'm not worried about UMass...

Good point. But a better UMass does nothing but help UConn with a rival we can play every year and a competitive game brings eye balls and butts in the seats.

 

[ZooCougar]

Nick Charlton to UMass.

Please make this happen.

 

[Windham4th]

Nick Charlton to UMass.

TJ Weist to UMass.

 

[Windham4th]

But the real one is TJ Weist to UMass who will dominate UConn for the next 20 years

 

[DoctorWho85]

But the real one is TJ Weist to UMass who will dominate UConn for the next 20 years

Why not Edsall or Pasqualoni at that point?

 

[huskymedic]

…Gone Fishing:

 

[KryHavok]

Why not Edsall or Pasqualoni at that point?

Oh man, I wouldn't wish Edsall on the Dallas Cowboys, and I LOATHE the Cowboys. ^_^

 

[Rich]

Man I know the national conceit is that Lincoln Riley's buyout makes him unfireable. But his '25 class continues to get hammered with decomits to the point where he's trending on bringing in the worst class the Trojans have had in years, worse than some of the Clay Helton pulls.

 

[CashewCrew]

Man I know the national conceit is that Lincoln Riley's buyout makes him unfireable. But his '25 class continues to get hammered with decomits to the point where he's trending on bringing in the worst class the Trojans have had in years, worse than some of the Clay Helton pulls.

I wish him the worst

 

[How Sway?!]

Man I know the national conceit is that Lincoln Riley's buyout makes him unfireable. But his '25 class continues to get hammered with decomits to the point where he's trending on bringing in the worst class the Trojans have had in years, worse than some of the Clay Helton pulls.

Who decommitted? 247 still has their class as 13th in the country.

 

[DoctorWho85]

…Gone Fishing:

Heck of a coaching career. He's earned it.

 

[jostar1]

Fired college football coach's wife takes bitter swipe at former school's roster

The wife of former UMass head coach Don Brown has blasted the school's decision to fire her husband after pointing to its astonishing lack of NIL money compared to other teams.

Yet while he departs with a poor 2-8 record this season, Brown's wife Deborah has fumed that her husband was actually performing miracles with the roster at his disposal after claiming UMass's roster falls well below the NIL value of its rivals.

She wrote on X: 'The combination of NIL money of the teams UMass played this season is a combined $48,798,653 million dollars to our $36,000. And we played how many teams so close?!'

One user replied: '360K did you mean? Has to be more than 36K.'

But Deborah confirmed: 'Correct amount !'

Other fans were left in disbelief after the NIL revelation, with one writing: 'Yeah that was a impossible situation'.

Another said: 'NIL in its current form is ruining college athletics... UMass will always be UMass and never win anything meaningful... but this disparity is just gross'.

While one simply posted: 'Coach Brown is a wizard!!'

Fired college football coach's wife takes bitter swipe at ex-school

Don Brown was fired by UMass earlier this week after going 6-28 in his second stint as head coach, having previously taken charge of the team from 2004 to 2008.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[KryHavok]

Fired college football coach's wife takes bitter swipe at former school's roster

The wife of former UMass head coach Don Brown has blasted the school's decision to fire her husband after pointing to its astonishing lack of NIL money compared to other teams.

Yet while he departs with a poor 2-8 record this season, Brown's wife Deborah has fumed that her husband was actually performing miracles with the roster at his disposal after claiming UMass's roster falls well below the NIL value of its rivals.

She wrote on X: 'The combination of NIL money of the teams UMass played this season is a combined $48,798,653 million dollars to our $36,000. And we played how many teams so close?!'

One user replied: '360K did you mean? Has to be more than 36K.'

But Deborah confirmed: 'Correct amount !'

Other fans were left in disbelief after the NIL revelation, with one writing: 'Yeah that was a impossible situation'.

Another said: 'NIL in its current form is ruining college athletics... UMass will always be UMass and never win anything meaningful... but this disparity is just gross'.

While one simply posted: 'Coach Brown is a wizard!!'

Fired college football coach's wife takes bitter swipe at ex-school

Don Brown was fired by UMass earlier this week after going 6-28 in his second stint as head coach, having previously taken charge of the team from 2004 to 2008.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Hot damn! UMass's NIL is underfunded by over 2 orders of magnitude compared to their rivals. If what Deborah Brown posted is right, each of their opponents has on average 5 million in NIL. This is like asking CCSU to play at FBS level while only having FCS budget. Brown was in an impossible situation, and he deserved better (he knew what he was getting into, but he still deserved more support from the AD).

 

[How Sway?!]

Fired college football coach's wife takes bitter swipe at former school's roster

The wife of former UMass head coach Don Brown has blasted the school's decision to fire her husband after pointing to its astonishing lack of NIL money compared to other teams.

Yet while he departs with a poor 2-8 record this season, Brown's wife Deborah has fumed that her husband was actually performing miracles with the roster at his disposal after claiming UMass's roster falls well below the NIL value of its rivals.

She wrote on X: 'The combination of NIL money of the teams UMass played this season is a combined $48,798,653 million dollars to our $36,000. And we played how many teams so close?!'

One user replied: '360K did you mean? Has to be more than 36K.'

But Deborah confirmed: 'Correct amount !'

Other fans were left in disbelief after the NIL revelation, with one writing: 'Yeah that was a impossible situation'.

Another said: 'NIL in its current form is ruining college athletics... UMass will always be UMass and never win anything meaningful... but this disparity is just gross'.

While one simply posted: 'Coach Brown is a wizard!!'

Fired college football coach's wife takes bitter swipe at ex-school

Don Brown was fired by UMass earlier this week after going 6-28 in his second stint as head coach, having previously taken charge of the team from 2004 to 2008.

www.dailymail.co.uk

How would she know how much other schools are spending in NIL? She got their tax returns or something?

Seems like a distraction tactic to me considering UMass went 0-5 versus the MAC this year and are 6-28 over the last 3 years with only 2 FBS wins.

 

[Zonepress]

How would she know how much other schools are spending in NIL? She got their tax returns or something?

Seems like a distraction tactic to me considering UMass went 0-5 versus the MAC this year and are 6-28 over the last 3 years with only 2 FBS wins.

The schools are not spending any $ on NIL
All nil comes from individuals or collectives

 

[Rich]

Who decommitted? 247 still has their class as 13th in the country.

Four star offensive lineman, which is really big for SC because their lines are a disaster.

 

[bobbyinaz]

Who decommitted? 247 still has their class as 13th in the country.

5-star QB Lewis commits to Coach Prime, Buffs

Five-star quarterback Julian Lewis, the No. 2 recruit in the 2025 ESPN 300, committed to Colorado on Thursday.

www.espn.com