re: Josh Pate says he can envision...

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Not sure this is as big a deal as some make it out to be. CFB is overall in a fricked up place right now, and one component of that is the coaching carousel timing that’s moved way up for the early signing period in Dec.

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This is where perception can be faulty. The coaching carousel season has not changed, it is everything surrounding it that has changed (ie: early signing period, transfer portal, etc.)

The dates of the last 9 coaching hire announcements at LSU (excepting Stovall due to sudden death of Bo Rein):

Bo Rein November 29, 1979
Bill Arnsparger December 2, 1983
Mike Archer December 2, 1986
Curly Hallman November 28, 1990
Gerry DiNardo December 12, 1994
Nick Saban November 30, 1999
Les Miles January 3, 2005
Ed Orgeron November 26, 2016
Brian Kelly November 30, 2021

Notice a pattern. The only real outlier was Les Miles and that was because of the late date that Saban chose to leave LSU to go to the NFL.

I would proffer that the coaching carousel season is the only constant in college football over the last 45 to 50 years, everything else has changed, including freshman eligibility, scholarship limits, red-shirting, gray-shirting, blue-shirting, extra years of eligibility due to nose bleeds, early signing period, transfer portal, unregulated free agency, escalating coaches salaries, NIL, revenue-sharing, etc., etc., etc.