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College Football Coach Hire Grades: New Mexico
New Mexico Lobos: Bronco Mendenhall Why the job was open: Success for New Mexico football has been fleeting. It’s difficult to break through to even have one good season here, but even once that’s accomplished, it’s even more difficult to sustain it. New Mexico alum Danny Gonzales was a rising star in the coaching ranks…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: San Diego State
San Diego State Aztecs: Sean Lewis Why the job was open: San Diego State for a long time was a program high on potential but never quite reaching it. That changed a little over a decade ago and now it’s one of the best jobs in the Mountain West. Brady Hoke, the man that unlocked…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Syracuse
Syracuse Orange: Fran Brown Why the job was open: Syracuse is such a tough job, some coaches have found success for a period of time but sustaining it has proven to be more difficult. This program isn’t located in a great recruiting pipeline and it’s difficult to keep getting talent each year. Dino Babers ran…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: UCLA
UCLA Bruins: DeShaun Foster Why the job was open: UCLA has been lost in the wilderness for some time. Occasionally they have a good year here or there but it’s been a long time since they’ve been a true contender. Jim Mora Jr found occasional success, spent some time in the rankings and made a…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Georgia State
Georgia State Panthers: Dell McGee Why the job was open: Shawn Elliott had a decently successful run with Georgia State, there were some nice bowl wins and massive upset wins along the way. Despite another bowl win this past year, the program started to lose momentum and he left for the exact same job he…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Tulane
Tulane Green Wave: Jon Sumrall Why the job was open: Tulane was once a long struggling program, even making bowl games was tough for the Green Wave. They hired Willie Fritz, a proven winner, to help fix that. It worked out tremendously. Tulane started making bowls and at the same time they made huge strides…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Texas A&M
Texas A&M Aggies: Mike Elko Why the job was open: Texas A&M is a program with an insane amount of resources in this NIL era, money is pretty much fake to the donors they have. As a result, they’ve run out of patience with not winning. Jimbo Fisher brought some bright spots, their 2020 season…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Arizona
Arizona Wildcats: Brent Brennan Why the job was open: Arizona is a program that has long struggled to find football success for a consistent period of time and it didn’t make sense. There’s a lot of talent in the state, lots of talent nearby in California/Texas and they’re in a desirable location (beautiful Tucson, Arizona).…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Houston
Houston Cougars: Willie Fritz Why the job was open: As Houston’s president once put it, “we’ll fire coaches for going 8-4.” Houston swung for the fences with their hire of Dana Holgersen and it did not work out. Outside of a strong 2021 season he did not surpass that 8-4 mark and Houston opted to…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Alabama
Alabama Crimson Tide: Kalen DeBoer Why the job was open: In case you were living under a rock, the college football world was rocked when Nick Saban retired. His run of dominance has come to an end after bringing 6 national titles and 9 SEC championships to the Crimson Tide. Coach Profile: Kalen DeBoer’s career…
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