Tag: Conference USA
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State of the Program: Liberty Flames
Head Coach: Jamey Chadwell is in his 2nd season as the head coach of the Flames with a 13-1 record. They went through the season undefeated with a conference championship win and Fiesta Bowl birth. A pretty good start to say the least. Program Outlook: Liberty is a program with a lot of resources they…
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State of the Program: Kennesaw State Owls
Head Coach: Kennesaw State is lead by Brian Bohannon who is the program’s only head coach ever and is entering his 10th year leading this program. He has a 71-30 record which is pretty incredible considering he built the program from the ground up plus last season was a weird transition year where they redshirted…
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State of the Program: Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders
Head Coach: Derek Mason is entering his first year as the head coach of the Blue Raiders. He was a head coach one other time at Vanderbilt, it wasn’t successful but almost no one succeeds there. Here’s a deeper look at his coach profile and hire grade: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/02/27/college-football-coach-hire-grades-middle-tennessee-state/ Program Outlook: Mid Tenn State has generally…
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State of the Program: UTEP Miners
Head Coach: Scotty Walden is entering his first year as the head coach of the Miners. He came over after having success at Austin Peay and has already brought a new energy to the program. You can read more about Walden and my hire grade for him here: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/02/14/college-football-coach-hire-grades-utep/ Program Outlook: UTEP has struggled a…
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State of the Program: Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
Head Coach: Sonny Cumbie is entering his 3rd year as the head coach of the Bulldogs with a 6-18 record. It felt like he was going to hit his breakthrough last season when they opened with a 3-3 record (2-0 in conference), but they absolutely collapsed down the stretch with an 0-6 finish. Louisiana Tech…
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State of the Program: Sam Houston Bearkats
Head Coach: KC Keeler is in his 11th season as the head coach of the Bearkats, he has an 88-36 record (all but one season in FCS.) Keeler won a FCS championship with Sam Houston in 2020 becoming the first head coach to win one at multiple schools, Keeler also won a FCS national championship…
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State of the Program: New Mexico State Aggies
Head Coach: Tony Sanchez is a former New Mexico State alum who is in his first season as the head coach of the program, he took over after Jerry Kill stepped away from full time head coaching. You can see his full profile and coach hire grade here: https://updogsportstalk.com/2024/06/04/college-football-coach-hire-grades-new-mexico-state/ Program Outlook: This is a very…
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State of the Program: Jacksonville State Gamecocks
Head Coach: Rich Rodriguez, affectionately known as “Rich Rod” is entering his 3rd season with the program with an 18-6 record. Jacksonville State was in FCS in his first season in 2022 but ineligible for anything as a result of their transition to FBS, despite that they still went 9-2 and went undefeated in the…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: New Mexico State
New Mexico State Aggies: Tony Sanchez Why the job was open: New Mexico State is a challenging job, and for a long time was known as perhaps the most challenging job in the country, especially given it’s status as a forced independent. Jerry Kill came in and changed everything almost overnight. A 17-11 record, 2…
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The Top 10 Teams to Rebuild in Dynasty Mode
This is a production of the ThreeTechPod (linktree: https://linktr.ee/threetechpod?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b3f40ca7-28e6-47bc-90fa-901c565d006d. Check out the corresponding video on YouTube (https://youtu.be/2VCYgJp8nL0?si=cz-ZeqovC8GFwxLc) Background: The top 10 teams are our favorite choices to rebuild on EACFB25 when the game is released in July. These aren’t necessarily the 10 worst teams, but rather teams we picked for their recent records, location, jerseys,…
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