Coaching changes in the Midwest
Wisconsin and Nebraska filled their vacancies, did they get the right men? What are the downstream effects for Cincinnati and other programs?
It’s the silly season of college football and it gets sillier every year.
The normal flurry of coaching moves is wild enough, but now we also have “early” signing day and the opening of the transfer portal to unleash additional chaos into the mix.
As someone who likes thinking and writing about football as much, if not more, as I do actually watching it, this time of the year makes for a pretty entertaining time. All of the hypothetical pairings of coaching skill sets and strategies with different jobs is tremendous fodder and now we essentially add a draft and a free agency period into the same months.
It does hurt the bowl season, which are normally a time people love watching football. The obvious (to me) right path is to expand the playoffs and run then during those periods when the Bowl Games do big numbers on television around Christmas when everyone’s sitting around the TV with their families on vacation. Having playoff games on New Year’s Eve is awful, our society already had engrained rhythms and festivities which didn’t include college football.
Anyways, trying to cover everything going on right now is like drinking from a fire hose. So we’re going to have a deliberate pace on this blog and probably circle back to a lot of these hires later on, especially as a new coach’s staff takes shape. A coach’s staff often tells you as much as anything. Today we’re going to focus on the Midwest. We’ll have to get to Auburn’s hire of Manley Pointer as their next head coach in another post while the people of War Eagle work their press junket insisting he’s “good country people.”
Alright, the Midwest…
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