re: In your opinion: Worst jobs in D-1A college football?

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5. Colorado

6. B.C.

7. Wyoming (anything in the Rockies, no black athletes).

8. Syracuse

9. Buffalo

10. UCONN (anything in the northeast, no recruits or fans)

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You're crazy putting CU on that list.

Wyoming is a really tough school to win. Anyone been to Laramie? ZERO instate talent.

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a place like belhaven

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7WT Boom!

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Kentucky

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Disagree. Get 6 wins most seasons with the occasional 8 win season and you can stay for as long as you like. If you're trying to get a big time gig, it's not a great place to be, but it's not the worst.

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Idaho, cause no one wants to live in Idaho.


I interviewed for a job years ago in Sun Valley Idaho. One of the most beautiful places Ive ever seen. Just sayin

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I was about to say the same thing. Depends on what one wants culturally but as far as remarkably beautiful natural resources you can do a lot worse than Idaho.


On the subject of UCLA -- The main thing that makes that job worse than one may think is that the lack of support is coupled with an idea that the football team should be good which separates it from many of the other schools on the list where expectations are low.
So if you're a coach that wants a stepping stone to a better job, it could well be the worst one to take.

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1. Anything Directional State (ie. W. Michigan, South Alabama, UL-L, ULM, UAB, UTEP, North Texas, Northern Illinois, Western Kentucky)

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Mark Hudspeth and Willie Taggart are becoming hot names from the schools you listed so I seriously doubt those are the worst jobs in America.

buffalo

and I would say vanderbilt is a difficult job but one that offers unique recruiting opportunities that make it far from the worst in teh country

yes, they are likely to be the whipping boy for the best teams in the conference but you can walk into a recruit's living room and tell them "son, I want you to come to Vanderbilt where you can play in the best football conference in the country and get one of the best educations in the country"

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You're crazy putting CU on that list.

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Actually, I was thinking CU would be my answer.

You can go a lot of ways with this question. Most people are going to say NonAQ schools, particularly in places with cold weather or less desirable towns. I would guess on an SEC board the MAC and Sun Belt would overwhelming choices. However, as some have already pointed out, many good to great coaches have come from a lot of the schools mentioned, be they MAC, SB or basketball schools like UNC, Mich State or Ok State.
I'd go with CU at the moment because they have some expectations, but it will be hard to win there. They have no natural recruiting base and unless they've changed in the past couple of years, place self restrictions on recruiting that hurt. Tough to sell a kid from Calif if he can only visit you for 24 hours, while he can visit other places for 48.

UL-L isn't by far the worst job in coaching. Matter of a fact, now that Hud has turned the football program around, I'd say its a pretty good job over LOTS of programs. Don't know what he is making salarywise, but i'm sure its pretty good, also doesn't have to put up with crappy fans, horrible traffic, no culture, cancer alley from the refineries, and so on. I think he and all the other coaches in all the sports love it in Laffy.

Texas
Florida