2025-26 Coaching Carousel

[AllHusky]

Wouldn’t Rahne have been announced if he was the guy? Just watched his interview dispelling rumors he was headed to VA Tech with Franklin. Didn’t love him.

 

[gimber]

Sporting News:​

College football coach hirings 2026​

	Departure	Replacement
Virginia Tech	Brent Pry	James Franklin
Oklahoma State	Mike Gundy	Eric Morris
Kent State	Kenni Burns	Mark Carney
California	Justin Wilcox	Tosh Lupoi
Auburn	Hugh Freeze	Alex Golesh
LSU	Brian Kelly	Lane Kiffin
Penn State	James Franklin
Florida	Billy Napier	Jon Sumrall
Arkansas	Sam Pittman	Ryan Silverfield
UCLA	DeShaun Foster	Bob Chesney
Stanford	Troy Taylor	Tavita Pritchard
Ole Miss	Lane Kiffin	Pete Golding
Michigan State	Jonathan Smith	Pat Fitzgerald
Colorado State	Jay Norvell	Jim Mora Jr.
North Texas	Eric Morris	Neal Brown
UConn	Jim Mora Jr.
Oregon State	Trent Bray	JaMarcus Shephard
Coastal Carolina	Tim Beck
USF	Alex Golesh	Brian Hartline
Tulane	Jon Sumrall
Memphis	Ryan Silverfield
Kentucky	Mark Stoops	Will Stein
Kansas State	Chris Klieman	Collin Klein
James Madison	Bob Chesney	Billy Napier
UAB	Trent Dilfer	Alex Mortensen

 

[Kolumbo]

Let's say Kraft gets fired. Where does Penn State look? That's a problem

Alleged audio from AD Kraft and some players. Post #7,214 from the Penn State board. The players want Terry Smith.

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Urban Meyer for 10 million per year for as long as he wants to stay.. Hire Hartline as the OC and the next head coach in waiting. winners win

www.on3.com

 

[freescooter]

Because he’s still holding out for Penn State.

Apparently Penn State has told him he can interview for other jobs so I doubt he is getting the Nittany Lions gig.

 

[ZooCougar]

Let's say Kraft gets fired. Where does Penn State look? That's a problem

Alleged audio from AD Kraft and some players. Post #7,214 from the Penn State board. The players want Terry Smith.

New coach - Page 181 - Forums

Urban Meyer for 10 million per year for as long as he wants to stay.. Hire Hartline as the OC and the next head coach in waiting. winners win

www.on3.com

The players don’t get to pick. They get the checks, they don’t sign them.

 

[HCCForever]

Does it even matter what the players want in the age of NIL? I’m sure it doesn’t matter as much. I’m thinking back to LeBron suggesting that Miami draft Shabazz in 2014. Miami drafted Napier only to see James go to the Lakers.

 

[Kolumbo]

The players don’t get to pick. They get the checks, they don’t sign them.

that's your takeaway from the audio?

 

[ZooCougar]

that's your takeaway from the audio?

Letting players pick always works out great.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Apparently Jimmy Sexton and coaches are profiting from all these failed PSU hiring attempts.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[AllHusky]

Holy Cow. Talk about desperation. A lot of AD’s got their resumes out for a tuneup.

 

[Kolumbo]

how funny would it be if someone floated the idea that Penn State is targeting our former head coach. get the jamokes out west all riled up. It's tough for a top coach to take that job. You probably won't do as well as Franklin did and you are going to get fired.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskyblooz]

I think Campbell is a very good hire.
It's not easy to win at Iowa State.

 

[UConn2SF]

That's a damn home run. So much for bungling the hire

 

[JwittersPAC]

I think Campbell is a very good hire.
It's not easy to win at Iowa State.

You think he is a top 10 college head coach?

 

[JwittersPAC]

That's a damn home run. So much for bungling the hire

He is 16-27 against top 25 teams. Sounds like another Franklin.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Penn State, after multiple swings & misses, potentially backing in to a highly respected, desirable candidate. Failing upwards?

 

[noeynox]

You think he is a top 10 college head coach?

No. What james franklin did at Vanderbilt is more impressive

 

[UConn2SF]

He is 16-27 against top 25 teams. Sounds like another Franklin.

Nope.
-Routinely had Iowa St punching above its weight
-Lauded in the college football world for how well he runs his program
-Great talent evaluator and developer
-One of the better offensive minds in college football
-With mediocre talent he finshed 1st in Big12 2x, 3rd behind Texas and Oklahoma 2x last 7 seasons
-Loyalty to a fault was the only thing that kept him in Ames for so long
-Well documented interest from NFL and multiple P2 programs last 5 years

Watch what this guy can/will accomplish with top tier talent

 

[Rich]

Nope.
-Routinely had Iowa St punching above its weight
-Lauded in the college football world for how well he runs his program
-Great talent evaluator and developer
-One of the better offensive minds in college football
-With mediocre talent he finshed 1st in Big12 2x, 3rd behind Texas and Oklahoma 2x last 7 seasons
-Loyalty to a fault was the only thing that kept him in Ames for so long
-Well documented interest from NFL and multiple P2 programs last 5 years

Watch what this guy can/will accomplish with top tier talent

Campbell is legit. It's a great hire and better fit.

 

[Kolumbo]

Interesting. Coached for RE 2.0

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Forte]

Pretty much guaranteed Iowa State gets Candle .. RULE #1 .. one thing is for certain .. if we get Sammis as HC its pretty obvious why.