OT: 2026 Coaching Carousel

[rutgersguy2]

Takes a good one off the market. Maybe with the 24 team playoffs some coaches might be like “I’m happy where I am with less pressure and can still achieve meaningful things here”

 

[rutgersguy2]

Supposedly UCLA is working on a deal for Chesney…maybe he’ll like Dickert too. If he’s happy in LA, with less pressure and access to 24 it might be enough.

 

[Ru-baby]

Would be too funny to see all the sideline whining, shocked faces and crying Phillip Rivers would do. If he was absurd as a qb-he was-imagine as a hc.

 

[Caliknight]

I'm more interested in candidates in the next cycle.

 

[rutgersguy2]

Would be too funny to see all the sideline whining, shocked faces and crying Phillip Rivers would do. If he was absurd as a qb-he was-imagine as a hc.

That’s a really risky one imo. I think he needs to hire an experienced staff to help advise him and even then you just can’t know what you don’t know until it happens to you. But who knows, we’ll see.

 

[rutgersguy2]

I'm more interested in candidates in the next cycle.

Mike Jacobs at Toledo is one I’ve mentioned to keep an eye on. He’s come up from the lower levels and has won at a good clip, like 80%.

The caveat to him is other than his first job he took over solid jobs, rather than big rebuilds. He kept it going or elevated those places.

Similarly Toledo is probably a more advantaged MAC program. He’s 8-2 currently and in a 4 way tie for first. They needed miracle to win against Temple, lost to Pete Lembo’s Buffalo (another name that has kind of reemerged after some years off the radar) and struggled more than they should have with Sac St.

He’s a former OSU OL and you’d be betting on the winners know how to win kind of thing. If he finishes off this year well and has another good year next year he could pop up on more radars. He gets mentioned even now but the one year in the FBS is thin.

 

[Knight Shift]

Mike Jacobs at Toledo is one I’ve mentioned to keep an eye on. He’s come up from the lower levels and has won at a good clip, like 80%.

The caveat to him is other than his first job he took over solid jobs, rather than big rebuilds. He kept it going or elevated those places.

Similarly Toledo is probably a more advantaged MAC program. He’s 8-2 currently and in a 4 way tie for first. They needed miracle to win against Temple, lost to Pete Lembo’s Buffalo (another name that has kind of reemerged after some years off the radar) and struggled more than they should have with Sac St.

He’s a former OSU OL and you’d be betting on the winners know how to win kind of thing. If he finishes off this year well and has another good year next year he could pop up on more radars. He gets mentioned even now but the one year in the FBS is thin.

Jason Candle was once a hot commodity at Toledo, and he cooled off and wound up at UConn. Maybe he got burned out.

Can't recall the last highly successful MAC coach post Fleck, Brian Kelly and Dantonio who was as successful at next level.

 

[rutgersguy2]

Supposedly UCLA is working on a deal for Chesney…maybe he’ll like Dickert too. If he’s happy in LA, with less pressure and access to 24 it might be enough.

 

[rutgersguy2]

Jason Candle was once a hot commodity at Toledo, and he cooled off and wound up at UConn. Maybe he got burned out.

Can't recall the last highly successful MAC coach post Fleck, Brian Kelly and Dantonio who was as successful at next level.

Dantonio was never a MAC coach.

Campbell was very good at ISU, he’s having a tough first year at PSU. Too early to say how that will go.

 

[Knight Shift]

Dantonio was never a MAC coach.

Campbell was very good at ISU, he’s having a tough first year at PSU. Too early to say how that will go.

I had Dantonio misplaced- Cincinnati- same level as MAC. May was well be MAC. But I will take the loss.

Who was the NIU coach who bombed badly at Temple?

IDK why you are keen on the current Toledo Coach.

 

[rutgersguy2]

I had Dantonio misplaced- Cincinnati- same level as MAC. May was well be MAC. But I will take the loss.

Who was the NIU coach who bombed badly at Temple?

IDK why you are keen on the current Toledo Coach.

Rod Carey was the NIU coach.

Not keen on Jacobs, but just as one to watch to see how he does at the FBS level. No different than me mentioning Eck last year when no one here was really looking at him. No idea what Jacobs will do but the .800 winning percentage is impressive. I like Eck better because he went into tough situations and won.

 

[Knight Shift]

Rod Carey was the NIU coach.

Not keen on Jacobs, but just as one to watch to see how he does at the FBS level. No different than me mentioning Eck last year when no one here was really looking at him. No idea what Jacobs will do but the .800 winning percentage is impressive. I like Eck better because he went into tough situations and won.

USF is getting boat raced by Memphis. USF is Brian Hartline, for tOSU OC.
Golesh was only at USF for 3 years before moving up to Auburn this year.

 

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[Anon1754923206]

This really would be worst case scenario for RU the ONE team we consistently beat…Kelly may not have been SEC ready but he can make some noise in MD…standards difference alone.