2025-26 Coaching Carousel

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Vowelguy]

I don’t get why programs fire coaches in mid season. There is no financial incentive to do so, and it sends the message to the players that the season is over and they should prepare for the Transfer Portal. It can turn a 7-5 season into a 2-10 one pretty quickly.

The wheels really need to be off for a mid season firing to make sense.

Preseason 2 lost 3 in a row including 2 where they were 20 point favorites. That qualifies as wheels off at some places.

Some reasons schools would change mideseason
1) You’ve decided to get rid of the coach and you have a rush of donors revved up willing to pay the buyout (and you think that might fade)
2) you think he’s lost the locker room
3) you want to get an early jump on getting a replacement
4) you want to stave off pkayers opting out for the rest of the year or already lining up transfer destinations
5) you feel pressure from alums to act NOW, and not doing so makes you look weak

Im not saying I agree either all of these for this case, but #2 looms large for me. The players were flat for the last 2 games. That’s coaching. It’s his job to make sure they are focused on the task at hand and ready & not just feeling sorry for themselves.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Vowelguy]

As Forde noted, Cignetti's new contract is "agreed to" not yet "signed."

 

[huskymedic]

Indiana Football: A Message from Coach Cignetti

 

[Skiblets]

Watching a basketball school morph into a basketball school and a football school. Duke doing the same thing.

It can be done. Just need the will and the $$.

 

[Vowelguy]

Watching a basketball school morph into a basketball school and a football school. Duke doing the same thing.

It can be done. Just need the will and the $$.

Can you call yourself a basketball school if you haven't gotten past the S16 in 23 years, and are 1-2 in the last 8 NCAAT?

 

[BigTenFan]

Never thought I would see IU -donors shell out 100milion for Football.

If you asked 100 Hoosiers would they rather win a BB Championship or Football....99 would say Basketball

 

[How Sway?!]

Watching a basketball school morph into a basketball school and a football school. Duke doing the same thing.

It can be done. Just need the will and the $$.

Indiana wishes they were still a basketba school

 

[giddyup]

Indiana wishes they were still a basketba school

They could not careless if they keep playing at their current level. As great as BB championships are, they take a backseat to football success. Shouldn’t be that way, but the pocketbooks vote otherwise.

 

[Kolumbo]

Never thought I would see IU -donors shell out 100milion for Football.

If you asked 100 Hoosiers would they rather win a BB Championship or Football....99 would say Basketball

"If you asked 100 Hoosiers over the age of 65 . . . "

I wouldn't be surprised if football were actually in the majority today. Indiana is sitting atop the Big Ten standings and ranked 3rd in the country. You gotta strike while the iron is hot. Bonus is becoming the best football school in Indiana.

 

[Vowelguy]

'It all turned so bad so fast': Inside James Franklin's Penn State departure

Penn State entered the season with national title aspirations. Six games in, the school fired its coach.

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