2011-12 Coaching Carousel

School	Former Coach	Reason	New Coach
FAU	Howard Schnellerberger	Retired	Carl Pelini
North Carolina	Butch Davis/Everitt Withers	Fired	Larry Fedora
Arizona	Mike Stoops	Fired	Rich Rodriguez
New Mexico	Mike Locksley	Fired	Bob Davie
Tulane	Bob Toledo	Retired	Curtis Johnson
Ole Miss	Houston Nutt	Fired	Hugh Freeze
Penn State	Joe Paterno	Fired
Akron	Rob Ianello	Fired	Terry Bowden
UAB	Neil Callaway	Fired	Garrick McGee
Illinois	Ron Zook	Fired	Tim Beckman
Kansas	Turner Gill	Fired	Charlie Weis
Memphis	Larry Porter	Fired	Justin Fuente
Arizona State	Dennis Erickson	Fired	Todd Graham
Ohio State	Luke Fickell	Demoted	Urban Meyer
UCLA	Rick Neuheisel	Fired	Jim Mora, Jr.
Washington State	Paul Wulff	Fired	Mike Leach
Texas A&M	Mike Sherman	Fired	Kevin Sumlin
Fresno State	Pat Hill	Fired	Tim DeRuyter
Colorado State	Steve Fairchild	Fired	Jim McElwain
Arkansas State	Hugh Freeze	Ole Miss HC	Gus Malzahn
Hawai'i	Greg McMackin	Resigned	Norm Chow
Southern Miss	Larry Fedora	North Carolina HC	Ellis Johnson
Toledo	Tim Beckman	Illinois HC	Matt Campbell
Houston	Kevin Sumlin	Texas A&M HC	Tony Levine
Pittsburgh	Todd Graham	Arizona State HC	Paul Chryst

Rumor mill already starting on this flight from Florida Keys (where Mike Leach lives) to Lawrence.

Mike Leach in Kansas... That would be an interesting hire (hypocritical to say the least), since Kansas pretty much fired Mangino for "verbally abusing" his players. Fat chicks in Lawrence might want to watch out if The Pirate comes a calling.

If the rumors are true (and I have no reason to believe they aren't at this point), and Urban Meyer is the next coach for Ohio State, don't be surprised if Luke Fickell heads to Akron.

Erickson is definitely gone.

(btw, great idea to have a thread for this - always interesting to see what happens with teams)

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Originally Posted by cdj

Rumor mill already starting on this flight from Florida Keys (where Mike Leach lives) to Lawrence.

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From KU Star writer:
Instead of Leach, we greeted a family of five who had a very unnewsworthy trip to Key West. #kufball

Ha!

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Originally Posted by morsdraconis

Erickson is definitely gone.

(btw, great idea to have a thread for this - always interesting to see what happens with teams)

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:+1:

urban meyer has taken the osu job.

http://ohiostate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1299845

ESPN reporting it too...

I'm not taking the job, okay I am...no I'm not, but I'm not going to call this weekends game, but I'm not taking the job, well yeah okay you got me, I'm the new coach of Ohio State.

i wonder if his contract has a scheduled leave of absence every 2 or 3 years

There are some rumblings that Mark Mangino might be headed to Arizona State.

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Originally Posted by JBHuskers

There are some rumblings that Mark Mangino might be headed to Arizona State.

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I love Mango, he was the O-Cordinator when OU won the title in 2000 but I can't see him coaching a PAC-12 team. The heat alone in Tempe could kill him.

Rick Neuheisel is out at UCLA. I guess that 50-0 ass whooping was enough to show the university they had not "closed the gap". :D

Chris, not sure why you haven't updated it, but Dennis Erickson has been fired as the Arizona State coach.

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Originally Posted by morsdraconis

Chris, not sure why you haven't updated it, but Dennis Erickson has been fired as the Arizona State coach.

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Updated. I was just waiting for official word on if he was 'fired' or 'retired.'


Paul Rhoads another rumored name at ASU.

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Originally Posted by JeffHCross

If the rumors are true (and I have no reason to believe they aren't at this point), and Urban Meyer is the next coach for Ohio State, don't be surprised if Luke Fickell heads to Akron.

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Fickell is expected to stay on, possibly (likely?) as defensive coordinator.

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Originally Posted by cdj

Updated. I was just waiting for official word on if he was 'fired' or 'retired.'


Paul Rhoads another rumored name at ASU.

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also rumored for asu, is june jones. :o

on brock and salk (espn seattle) today, they said a slight rumor coming out of ucla is that they want chris peterson, which is highly unlikely since he signed like a 5 year extension or something with boise state, like last year. they reportedly are also interested in kevin sumlin of houston.

weird to be following this for PSU, just not sure what to think right now :dunno:

Going to be an interesting couple of weeks that is for sure.

I'll be glad when Sunday comes so that we can finally get something out in the open with ASU's head coach... he's being rumored as one of top candidates at both Memphis (coached HS there, $1.5M) and Ole Miss (former assistant there). Our school is working to put together an attractive offer to stay but there's no way we match either of those two schools, but both parties have said nothing will happen until after this week's game.

Taking the Memphis job would be career suicide, outside of making a few extra $. There might be talent in the Memphis area but the Tigers are not getting much of it.