2025-26 Coaching Carousel

[ZooCougar]

Keep him away from the motorcycles.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Purple Stein]

This guy has a million lives.

 

[ZooCougar]

This guy has a million lives.

When you have a skill it tends to be like that.

 

[huskymedic]

Keep him away from the motorcycles.

 

[DoctorWho85]

This guy continues to fall up

 

[Kolumbo]

this hog didn't fare too well

 

[huskymedic]

 

[freescooter]

Guess who is getting the job at Arkansas.

 

[ZooCougar]

It’s almost like it was a palace coup.

 

[UConnJim]

It’s almost like it was a palace coup.

Pittman was 32-34 and was in his 6th season. They have a bye this week, so now was the time to do it. Petrino is a better coach than Pittman so why not give him a tryout for the rest of the season?

 

[ZooCougar]

Pittman was 32-34 and was in his 6th season. They have a bye this week, so now was the time to do it. Petrino is a better coach than Pittman so why not give him a tryout for the rest of the season?

As the OC, Petrino had a direct influence in his boss’s success or failure. That’s what I was getting at.

Lots of grumbling among Arkansas fanbase.

 

[huskymedic]

Extensive list of “names” with rational within <<

 

[Hoophound]

Petrino will probably win. He usually does. Lashlee would be a good hire there but he’d be wise to wait for a better job.

 

[UConnJim]

Petrino will probably win. He usually does. Lashlee would be a good hire there but he’d be wise to wait for a better job.

Would Lashlee even want the job?

 

[Hoophound]

Would Lashlee even want the job?

Like I said, I think he’d wait for a better job. It seems like half the jobs in the SEC are going to be really hard to win at. The top is so strong and the schools have so many resources that even the top 6-7 brands in the conference are in for many years of mediocrity. How can you realistically win big consistently in a conference with Georgia, Florida, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, A&M etc.? You better be one of the 2-3 best coaches in the league or you are going to be in trouble pretty quick.

 

[DoctorWho85]

Would Lashlee even want the job?

Money talks, but he's got a good thing going at SMU.

 

[freescooter]

Like I said, I think he’d wait for a better job. It seems like half the jobs in the SEC are going to be really hard to win at. The top is so strong and the schools have so many resources that even the top 6-7 brands in the conference are in for many years of mediocrity. How can you realistically win big consistently in a conference with Georgia, Florida, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Ole Miss, Tennessee, A&M etc.? You better be one of the 2-3 best coaches in the league or you are going to be in trouble pretty quick.

This is something I think is a problem with these mega-conferences. They are pretty much stratified and breaking in is tough. And if you are a lower level team and you win, it will be tough to keep your coach. For lots of programs the best they can expect is to be at the top of the middle. If I were Oklahoma, I’d be pretty wary, for example, of becoming Nebraska. Same with USC and Oregon. I think those may take a few years to settle out, well not USC. They need a better coach, but the others. If you remember when BC, VaTech and Miami joined the ACC they were at or near the top, I think BC and VaTech played in a couple of ACC championship games against each other even, at least 1, but as the say water finds its own level, and over time they became middle of the road teams. Nebraska Maryland and Rutgers and UCLA did too( well Rutgers hopes to be middle of the road) Even Penn State has only occasionally won championships.

 

[huskymedic]

Familiar name(s):

 

[huskymedic]

Would Lashlee even want the job?

Money talks, but he's got a good thing going at SMU.

End around <<

 

[freescooter]

End around <<

In other words his application is already in.

 

[huskymedic]

-> Randy Edsall, UConn

From 1999 to 2010, Edsall led UConn through its transition from FCS (then I-AA) to the Big East, culminating in a conference title and trip to the Fiesta Bowl, where the 8-4 Huskies lost 48-20 to Oklahoma. The next morning, he hopped on a plane to Maryland to take a new job. UConn folks were furious.

Six years later, after Maryland fired him, he returned to UConn. He went 6-29 from 2017 to 2019 and got a reprieve in 2020 when the school canceled its season. After losing to Holy Cross in the second game of 2021, he abruptly announced he’d be retiring at the end of the season. The school said, nope, he’s stepping down today. <-

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

After losing to Holy Cross in the second game of 2021, he abruptly announced he’d be retiring at the end of the season. The school said, nope, he’s stepping down today. <-

I had forgotten about how this went down. Quite the power move by Benedict.

 

[HuskiesFan1014]

Familiar name(s):

I remember just having Mazzone on the sidelines felt like a much-needed answered prayer. It wasn't. I just agonizingly reviewed that effed up 2021...the loss to Holy Cross, no more Edsall, Lou Spanos, Mazzone, going 1-11 (barely getting by Yale) and Mora hired in November. What a year to forget.

 

[Platt81]

I remember just having Mazzone on the sidelines felt like a much-needed answered prayer. It wasn't. I just agonizingly reviewed that effed up 2021...the loss to Holy Cross, no more Edsall, Lou Spanos, Mazzone, going 1-11 (barely getting by Yale) and Mora hired in November. What a year to forget.

What’s even crazier was when he first came back we had Rhett Lashlee as OC and very much coach in waiting and stubborn Edsall ran him out of town.