Butch Jones will attempt to scale the perilous heights of Rocky Top as Tennessee?s new football coach. (AP)
Tommy Tuberville?s sitting by the phone and Jimmy Sexton?s got that particular sparkle in his eye. It can mean only one thing: The coach firin? season is upon us once more. We?ll be tracking the carousel of progress, right here, for as long as it takes to stop spinning. Raise a glass to times past, won?t you?
Tennessee [updated 12.07.2012]
??Who?s out:?Derek Dooley, who plugged the dam on Rocky Top?following the return of Lane Kiffin to Southern California. He was fired November 18, 2012, on the heels of a blowout loss to Vanderbilt in Nashville, the program?s first road loss to the Commodores in 30 years. Offensive coordinator Jim Chaney coached the Vols? final game against Kentucky.?Happy trails, pants.
??Who?s in:?Butch Jones of Cincinnati, taking a job not previously held by Brian Kelly for the first time in his head coaching career. No word as of yet on what color pants he will don on game days.
Cincinnati [updated 12.07.2012]
??Who?s out: Butch Jones, who resigned to take the vacant Tennessee job.
??Who?s in: TBA.
Cal [updated 12.06.2012]
??Who?s out:?Jeff Tedford, who lasted an astonishing (for this era) 11 seasons. The school announced his departure on?November 20, 2012, following the conclusion of a 3-9 regular season, the Bears? second losing campaign in three years.?Per the?glowing press release announcing his dismissal: ?Tedford both won more games than any previous Cal coach, setting the mark with his 75th victory, a 63-12 decision over Presbyterian on Sept. 17, 2012. He also owns school records for most bowl wins (5), most games coached (139) and most conference victories (50), while he is tied with Pappy Waldorf for most Big Game wins (7).? Also looks uncannily like John Wayne in certain lights.
??Who?s in:?One of our bloggy favorites, and one of yours, too, if you?re into pointsplosions. We won?t get to see Sonny Dykes? Louisiana Tech offense operate this postseason, but next year he?ll be in the same division as Mike Leach and the same conference as Rich Rodriguez. (Cal?s new offense is already being referred to as the #BearRaid; please keep that going.) What we?re interested to know now: Whether Tony Franklin will head to the Bay Area with his boss as reported, and who Dykes? DC will be. Because, well, the Bears are gonna need a good DC.
Louisiana Tech [updated 12.06.2012]
??Who?s out: Sonny Dykes, whose Bulldogs put up the nation?s top-scoring offense and squishiest total defense in 2012, has been hired to replace Jeff Tedford at Cal.
??Who?s in: TBA.
Purdue?[updated 12.05.2012]
??Who?s out:?Danny Hope,?elevated from his second stint as a Boilermakers assistant?following the 2008 season, as the designated successor to Joe Tiller. Hope was let go on November 25, 2012, after?four seasons resulting in a 22-27 record (13-19 in Big Ten play). And while?memories of beating Ohio State and Michigan in the same 2009 season may fade, that mustache is eternal.
??Who?s in:?Kent State?s Darrell Hazell, who just took the Golden Flashes to within an overtime period of a BCS game.?KENT STATE.?On paper, it?s a hire that should make Purdue fans quite happy, and one that makes Matt Hinton an unassailable prophet:
Florida International [updated 12.05.2012]
??Who?s out: Mario Cristobal, who took the Panthers to their first two bowl appearances in school history, only to suffer a losing season after and be unceremoniously ousted. We have some strong feelings of disdain for this move. You can read them here.
??Who?s in:?TBA; Pete Thamel reports the Panthers will pursue Butch Davis.
Kent State [updated 12.05.2012]
??Who?s out:?Darrell Hazell, doing his part to help prop up the MAC?s coaching export numbers by taking the Purdue job.
??Who?s in:?TBA.
Arkansas [updated 12.04.2012]
??Who?s out:?John L. Smith, brought back to Fayetteville?last April, to fill in the smoking crater left by Bobby Petrino.?Arkansas announced on Nov. 24?that Smith will not continue to serve as head coach past the end of his current contract: ?Smith was hired to a 10-month contract last April and his employment agreement runs through Feb. 23, 2013. Smith will remain in the department as a consultant through the completion of his 10-month contract. Smith will be reassigned to assist with the transition to the new coaching staff once a new head coach is named. All assistant coaches have the option to remain a part of the football staff pending the hiring of a new head coach.??Every time he opened his mouth in front of a camera?since he got here?has been a magical moment, and for that, from our nonpartisan standpoint, he will be missed.
??Who?s in:?Bret Bielema, head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers, one of the last people you?d think would end up there, and one of the best people, from an entertainment standpoint, to put in the same division as Les Miles and Nick Saban. Not a bad day?s work, Jeff Long. Andy Staples calls this move another blow to Big Ten perception.
Auburn [updated 12.04.2012]
? Who?s out: Gene Chizik, who was hired in December 2008 to replace Tommy Tuberville. Derided in some corners as ?5-19 Gene,? Chizik promptly led the Tigers to three consecutive winning seasons, each ending in a bowl victory ? which brings us to 2012. Chizik?s firing was announced on November 25, at the close of a 3-9 campaign and shortly following a 49-0 obliteration by Alabama in the Iron Bowl. His claim to fame is right there in the very first sentence of his official school bio: ?Auburn head coach Gene Chizik, in his fourth year has led the program to more wins (30) than any coach in the school?s rich football history in their first three seasons, including the program?s first national championship in over 50 years, when his Tigers won the 2010 BCS National Championship.? Nasty business, football.
? Who?s in: None other than Gus Malzahn, back on the Plains to see if he can recreate some of that title run magic. Stewart Mandel wonders if memories of the Chizik administration will eventually just blur into nothingness.
Arkansas State [updated 12.04.2012]
??Who?s out:?Gus Malzahn, back to Auburn after just one season (and a conference title) at the helm of the Red Wolves.
??Who?s in:?TBA.
Boston College?[updated 12.04.2012]
??Who?s out:?Frank Spaziani, promoted from defensive coordinator in January 2009 and fired November 25, 2012, after recording?six wins in two seasons.?Is it possible that the most memorable aspect of his tenure might be what happened?right before he was hired?
??Who?s in: Reported by SI?s Pete Thamel and since made official by BC?s AD: Temple head coach Steve Addazio, who took over for Al Golden after Golden?s departure for Miami two seasons ago, will replace Spaziani. Before you ask, we?re pretty sure this was Montel Harris? last year of eligibility, which is a shame, because that would?ve been a hilarious package deal.
Wisconsin [updated 12.04.2012]
??Who?s out:?Bret Bielema, who?s taken the Badgers to three consecutive Rose Bowls. News of his departure to the SEC to take over at Arkansas broke on Tuesday, December 4.
??Who?s in:?TBA.
Temple [updated 12.04.2012]
??Who?s out: Steve Addazio, whose departure to Boston College was announced December 4.
??Who?s in:?TBA.
Idaho [updated 12.04.2012]
??Who?s out:?Robb Akey,?hired December 2006 and fired October 21, 2012,?amid a 1-7 season mark?and the program staring down the hard road of conference independence in 2013. His?claim to fame, besides his mustache? His perfect (1-0) record in bowl games, earned in the 2009 Humanitarian Bowl in a manner impossible to forget:
We?ll always have Boise, Coach Dr. Teeth.
??Who?s in:?Paul Petrino, brother of Bobby and former offensive coordinator at Arkansas, Illinois and Louisville,?was announced as Akey?s successor?on December 3, and is actually making a return to Moscow. He served three seasons as an assistant with the Vandals in the early 1990s.
North Carolina State [updated 12.03.2012]
??Who?s out:?Tom O?Brien, who replaced?Chuck Amato in December 2006, was fired on November 25, 2012, after?six seasons, 40 wins and 35 losses.?Nothing he accomplished in Raleigh was quite so remarkable as putting together multiple consecutive bowl seasons at his previous program, Boston College. And isn?t that the problem? When we think of O?Brien at all, it?s usually as The Guy Who Incubated Russell Wilson.
??Who?s in:?Dave Doeren, whom some of you may recognize as the guy who just got Northern Illinois to the Orange Bowl. Now he gets to winter in Raleigh instead of Miami! Ah, the perils of career advancement.
South Florida?[updated 12.03.2012]
??Who?s out: Skip Holtz, fired December 2 after his second consecutive losing season with the Bulls. According to USF AD Doug Woolard, ?While our program remains young, having just completed our 16th season of competition, our history is rich, and the expectations of coaches, players, students, administrators and fans are high. That is why the past few months have been hard for all of us.?
??Who?s in:?TBA, but as Voodoo Five says,??Safe is death.?
Northern Illinois?[updated 12.03.2012]
??Who?s out:?Dave Doeren, who ascended from coordinating Bret Bielema?s defenses at Wisconsin just two seasons ago to take the head job at NIU, resigned from the Huskies to take over for the ousted Tom O?Brien at North Carolina State.
??Who?s in: Doeren?s hiring was announced December 1, and by December 2 the Huskies already had a replacement lined up. Offensive coordinator Rod Carey, who took over for Mike Dunbar after Week 1, has been promoted to the top position, and we?ll get a look at him right away: His first task will be to coach the first-ever MAC team to appear in a BCS game, when the Huskies face Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
Georgia State [updated 12.03.2012]
??Who?s out: They?re not technically on our beat yet, but the Panthers announced a 2013 move to the Sun Belt back in April, and Bill Curry announced he?d retire following the 2012 season, so by the time Georgia State does come under our watch it?ll have a new guy. Also, this is a great excuse to repost this video.
We are going to miss Bill Curry very much.
??Who?s in: Trent Miles, current head coach at Indiana State, will be announced as Curry?s successor on Monday, December 3.
Kentucky [updated 11.27.2012]
??Who?s out:?Joker Phillips,?hired January 2010. Fired?November 4, 2012, a decision that Mitch Barnhart apparently came to?while perfecting his Jordan Catalano lean. (Yes, that?s the firing announcement. You just have to read way,?way?down.)?We will admit to being biased in this regard, but we will always admire how Phillips broke a Tennessee winning streak over the Wildcats that had stretched more than a quarter century?with a wide receiver playing quarterback.
??Who?s in:?Mark Stoops, brother of Bob and Mike. Stoops has spent the past three seasons as Florida State?s defensive coordinator, following a six-year stint at Arizona.
Southern Miss [updated 11.27.2012]
? Who?s out:?Ellis Johnson, hired December 2011. Served briefly in the late 1980s as the Golden Eagles? DC; plucked from South Carolina after predecessor Larry Fedora?s departure for North Carolina.?Fired on?November 27, 2012, after steering a program that went 12-2 in 2011, including a bowl victory, into an 0-12 ditch, good for the worst record in FBS. Downtrodden conference-mates UAB and Memphis won games this year. Several, in fact. Each team transitioning into FBS play this season, from semi-mighty UTSA to wee South Alabama, beat?somebody.?There?s also this depressing stat:
??Who?s in: TBA.
Colorado?[updated 11.25.2012]
? Who?s out:?Jon Embree took on the task of digging Colorado out of a Dan Hawkins-shaped well in December 2011. His firing was announced?November 25, 2012, which makes him the latest two-season casualty, for those of you scoring at home, and concludes a 1-11 Buffs football season, for those of you who don?t like to count very high. Frosty joint statement from Colorado?s AD, President and Chancellor reads, in part: ?We firmly believe a change in the leadership in our football program is in the best interests of the University of Colorado, particularly given our goal to compete at the highest levels of the Pac-12 Conference.?
??Who?s in: TBA.
UTEP [updated 11.19.2012]
? Who?s out:?Mike Price, head coach of the Miners since?December 2003,?announced his retirement at his weekly media luncheon on November 19, 2012: ?We will have all week to hang out together and celebrate, because that?s truly what I want this to be, a celebration this week with our players. This is going to be fun. [...]?There is someone else I?d like to thank. That?s my wife of 46 years, Joyce. She wants to talk, but she goes on and on and on [laughs]. She has been with me as a player. She has raised two football players and watched them play little league, Pop Warner, junior high and high school, and then they went into the god awful profession of coaching. For 46 years she has been with me, and now I?m going to spend some time with her and she?s going to come first in my life.? We cannot express in words how much we?re going to miss having Mike Price quotes to pore over every week.?Apart from being the Alabama coach that wasn?t, we?ll also remember him for drawing our eyeballs to UTEP. The bizarro upsets and near-upsets! The unabashed glee with which he hoisted that pickaxe! Profiles in Profiteroles? weekly ?Thing UTEP Did This Week? item won?t be the same without him.
??Who?s in: TBA.
Western Michigan [updated 11.17.2012]
??Who?s out:?Bill Cubit, ?who first operated at WMU as offensive coordinator from 1997-1999 and was brought back as head coach in 2005. His tenure ended?November 17, 2012, shortly after dropping a 29-23 game to Eastern Michigan and falling to 4-8 for the season (2-6 in MAC play). Cubit departs as?the fifth-winningest coach in program history and has the second-most MAC wins. He also took the Broncos from 1-10 in 2004 to 7-4 in 2005, which WMU sports info tells us is the biggest one-year turnaround in conference history.
??Who?s in:?TBA.
Source: http://college-football.si.com/2012/12/07/coach-firing-tracker-2012/
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