Your Experience with Coaching Carousel?

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by bucknut7

Correct me if I am wrong, but Boise State is a 6 star program in the game (and even if not, its not hard to get them there). Are you going to tell me that Boise State is a more desirable and prestigious school then Alabama?

No, but the only reason is because they are in the MWC. I think it's absurd to say any 6 star school in a major, autobid conference is "clearly more desirable" than another.

[buickbeast]

Back to the point of this thread.
I'm guessing that everyone in your OD will be a head coach. I've only done two seasons as HC but won the NC and brought Miami up to 6 stars. It was only a two contract and I got a ton of 2,3 star offers for HC and OC positions. I took the HC job at Tenn, which was a two star. Fine with me though because I have a soft spot for the Vols.
I started out as an OC at Hawaii though and after my initial three yr contract was over with 1 losing season and a bowl win, it seemed I had much better offers, such as multiple 3 and 4 star OC and HC jobs, than when I won the NC as a head coach. After two stops as OC at Cal and UGA I eventually took my first HC job at Miami.

[bucknut7]

Quote: Originally Posted by buickbeast

Back to the point of this thread. I'm guessing that everyone in your OD will be a head coach. I've only done two seasons as HC but won the NC and brought Miami up to 6 stars. It was only a two contract and I got a ton of 2,3 star offers for HC and OC positions. I took the HC job at Tenn, which was a two star. Fine with me though because I have a soft spot for the Vols. I started out as an OC at Hawaii though and after my initial three yr contract was over with 1 losing season and a bowl win, it seemed I had much better offers, such as multiple 3 and 4 star OC and HC jobs, than when I won the NC as a head coach. After two stops as OC at Cal and UGA I eventually took my first HC job at Miami.

I just dont understand how after your experience with Miami, that your best offer was a 3*. Doesnt seem right

[buickbeast]

Quote: Originally Posted by bucknut7

I just dont understand how after your experience with Miami, that your best offer was a 3*. Doesnt seem right

Ya it was weird, but it defiantly changes from year to year. Makes a huge difference when the bigger schools resign and when there is a spot available, I've noticed many times that either the OC or DC takes the HC spot.

[football5680]

I have played great for a couple of seasons with a terrible team and didnt recieve any great offers.
I recieved some Coordinator opportunities with maybe 3 star team, and some head coach jobs with 1-2 star teams but thats it.
I thought at the very least I would get some coordinator jobs with great schools or head coach jobs at mid level schools

[CuseGirl]

Quote: Originally Posted by bucknut7

That make absolutely no sense then. You look at Jim Harbaugh (built Stanford up to a 5/6* program).

that's when I stopped reading....Stanford has had 7 winning seasons in the last 20 years, only 3 in the last 10. They got lucky, no pun intended, because an elite QB prospect wanted to get a 4 year architecture degree. Other than that, Stanford will be a 4 star program at best for the rest of eternity.

[Hoosiers1111]

It definitely seems to favor hiring coordinators over HC's. In my case I started as an OC for Ball State, won 10 games, got hired as OC at Baylor, stayed two years where I won 6 games and then 10 games, then got hired as HC at Ole Miss. I have an A+ rating now so I'm hoping after a couple of years of improving Ole Miss (they were 6-6 before I took them over and the cupboard is pretty bare) I can get a job at Texas, Florida or Miami who appear to be on the verge of firing their respective coaches.

So basically my advice would be to start at someplace lower than a middle of the road power conference team or at least start as a coordinator. There's not much room to move up starting as a HC in a power conference.

[UMIK89]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hoosiers1111

It definitely seems to favor hiring coordinators over HC's. In my case I started as an OC for Ball State, won 10 games, got hired as OC at Baylor, stayed two years where I won 6 games and then 10 games, then got hired as HC at Ole Miss. I have an A+ rating now so I'm hoping after a couple of years of improving Ole Miss (they were 6-6 before I took them over and the cupboard is pretty bare) I can get a job at Texas, Florida or Miami who appear to be on the verge of firing their respective coaches. So basically my advice would be to start at someplace lower than a middle of the road power conference team or at least start as a coordinator. There's not much room to move up starting as a HC in a power conference.

Very well said.


After winning the NC in my 5th overall year, in the off season I got these offers:
VT HC
Arizona HC
Wisconsin OC
Akron HC
EMU HC
Georgia OC
Indiana OC
Kansas State HC
New Mexico State HC
Ohio State OC
Oregon State OC
Purdue HC
Syracuse HC
UCLA OC
UNLV HC
Washington OC
Fresno State OC
Bowling Green OC
Arizona OC
Buffalo HC
UConn OC
ECU HC
Illinois OC
Maryland OC
Mizzou OC
Oklahoma St OC
Ole Miss OC
Oregon OC
Rice HC
SDSU OC
SMU OC
Temple OC
UCF OC
Southern Cal OC
Utah St HC
Kansas State OC
Vandy OC
MTSU OC
UTEP OC
New Mexico OC
North Carolina OC
Texas Tech OC
Idaho OC
Buffalo OC
Clemson OC <- Clemson is now a 1* lol
Iowa State OC
New Mexico State OC
Western Michigan OC


I wouldn't take most of these lol.

I'm either going with Ohio St OC or VT HC