Some recent high profile Coaching Searches

I’ve been doing some digging on other high profile searches to kind of gauge what type of candidates other similar schools were looking at. I left some out of course (who could forget our own shitshow in 2015/16) My conclusion:

This shite is a total crapshoot. This site loses its collective mind every day saying this coach would be a failure or this coach would kill it here. The truth is - you don’t know shite. No one does. Some of these hires would’ve been disastrous (Rich Rod at Bama, Edsall at ND) some of the schools made a hire where literally any other candidate would’ve been better (Strong at Texas), some schools (FSU) had a list of totally shitty candidates.

Alabama 2006 - candidates included Rich Rodriguez, Nick Saban, Steve Spurrier. Fringe (not serious) guys were Jim Grobe and Paul Johnson

Notre Dame 2009 - Brian Kelly was the main candidate, fallback option was Randy Edsall

Ohio State 2011 - They had a real list like us. Fickell was given some consideration. Tier 1 included Urban Meyer, Bo Pelini, Mark Dantonio, Bob Stoops, Chris Petersen. Tier 2: Turner Gill (Buffalo), Charlie Strong, Paul Chryst, Phil Fulmer, Mike Leach

Texas 2013 - Names included Gus Malzahn, James Franklin, Charlie Strong, Jimbo Fisher, Art Briles, and, of course, Nick Saban

Michigan 2014 - Both Harbaugh brothers, Les Miles (again). Some less serious names were Art Briles, Mike Gundy, Jim Mora, Gary Patterson, Kevin Sumlin

Georgia 2015 - Kirby Smart, Jimbo Fisher, Tom Herman, Dan Mullen, Chip Kelly

Florida State 2017 - Willie Taggart, James Franklin, Charlie Strong, Justin Fuente

Florida State 2019 - Matt Campbell, Mike Norvell, Odell Haggins, Mark Stoops