Tag: football
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Middle Tennessee State
Mid Tenn State Blue Raiders: Derek Mason Why the job was open: Rick Stockstill had been one of the longest tenured coaches in all of College Football, he coached the Blue Raiders for 18 seasons! You just don’t see that at a CUSA program this day and age. Stockstill made it this long by leading…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Wyoming
Wyoming Cowboys: Jay Sawvel Why the job was open: A decade ago Craig Bohl was hired to take over Wyoming after building a FCS Powerhouse at North Dakota State. He won 3 titles in a row for the Bison and took on the new challenge of getting Wyoming football back to being competitive. A decade…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Oregon State
Oregon State Beavers: Trent Bray Why the job was open: As you know, this one is complicated. Jonathan Smith did an excellent job with this program, it was in a bad spot in 2018 when he took over but they finished with 10 wins in 2022, finishing ranked in the top 25 the last 2…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: Boise State
Boise State Broncos: Spencer Danielson Why the job was open: Boise State considers itself to be the premier job in the Mountain West and as a result they expect to content for conference championships regularly. The Andy Avalos era wasn’t a smooth one to say the least. They played for a Mountain West championship in…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: UTEP
UTEP Miners: Scotty Walden Why the job was open: UTEP is a tough job, it’s in Texas but unless you have the right coach and staff in place, you don’t really get the benefits of being in Texas. Dana Dimel took the program over at a real low point in 2018 and after a few…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: James Madison
James Madison Dukes: Bob Chesney Why the job was open: Curt Cignetti had a ton of success with the JMU program, they transitioned from FCS to FBS during his tenure and immediately established themselves atop the Sun Belt. You could even argue they were the best G5 team in the nation. The Dukes spent a…
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College Football Coach Hire Grades: South Alabama
South Alabama Jaguars: Major Applewhite Why the job was open: Kane Wommack found a lot of success with the Jaguars program. He led South Alabama to their best season ever and their first ever bowl win. This is still a young program but it clearly has momentum, still Wommack got the opportunity to reunite with…
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Patriot League:
Headline: It might not be good for the strength of this league, but the Lafayette Leopards are one of the most interesting stories in basketball. They entered conference play 0-12 against D1 opponents, yes not a single D1 win!! They promptly flipped a switch when conference play began to be 6-0 in conference, that start…
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College Basketball Roundup: Mountain West Conference
Headline: The Mountain West is awesome this year, but can the conference get 6 bids?? This seems possible with how many great teams are in the conference. San Diego State is as good as usual, Colorado State, Utah State and Nevada all looked great out of conference and picked up nice wins. New Mexico and…
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College Basketball Roundup: Big 12 Conference
Headline: The Big 12 is still the best conference in the sport. From top to bottom this conference is loaded, there are multiple national title contenders and the conference almost certainly will put the most teams in the tournament. Contenders: Kansas Jayhawks – Kansas is still the favorite to win the Big 12 regular season…
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