I believe RE will land somewhere soon, at the top. IMO, his biggest problem at UM was that he recruited kids he had trouble coaching. He went for the 4/5 star kids, and many of them want/need a level of attention he refuses to give. When they paired Locksley with him, you had to know the wheels were coming off (think Mike ran in to the AD's office and asked to renegotiate that bonus he gets for recruiting rankings?). I can see him getting a gig at an Indiana (assuming their coach moves on) or a Purdue at the P5 level, where he can recruit his kind of kids, play hard nosed football and eke out 6/7 win seasons. One might argue Rutty, who has to feel the pressure to make someone there take the fall, but that would simply be a repeat of UMd. I could see Cuse, who has no meaningful wins to speak of. Short of that he could land a gig at Army or a CUSA/MAC program or take a flier on a gig like New Mexico.
Let's be honest, he runs a clean program. Here, the kids elevated their perceived game under him. He has trouble with kids who put the focus on themselves (who could forget the post-game talk he gave as to Sio after the kid lit up WVU with about 17 tackles). He is not a good fit in a major media market. PP is a lifer, and will take any job, even at 66. I don't see Edsall being that way. I just don't see him jumping in to an asst job after more than a decade of running things his way. He'll get another chance, somewhere.
