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A lot of chatter that Chip Kelly will get the ax in San Fran after Baalke gets (rightfully) fired. If Kelly does get fired, is there anyone who cuts loose their current coach to hire Kelly (realistically-I mean I'd love for BC to can the Dazzler and get him, but that isn't happening). Sumlin? Mora at UCLA?
 

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Kiffin has a shot at success at FAU, mainly because C-USA has a power vacuum. Western Kentucky has been top-25 caliber for two seasons, but the rest of the league is awful. Sagarin has them rated as the worst conference this year. Yes, worse than the Sun Belt or MAC. If someone can get improve a team to top-50ish, they can compete for a title.

Also, here are the guys coaching FBS football in Florida, in order of tenure:
Jimbo Fisher, Jim McElwain, Mark Richt, Scott Frost, Butch Davis, Charlie Strong, Lane Kiffin.
 
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Good for Charlie. He should do well there, they have a stacked cupboard ahd the program is akin to Louisville so it won't hopefully be too big for him like Texas.

Maybe he has finally learned how to hire good assistants.
USF is loaded personnel-wise for next season, with a great QB and wide receivers and running backs for days, even if RB Marlon Mack goes pro. If he can coach the defense up we have a shot at the mid-major NY6 spot. It sounds like he wants to bring Gilbert and some other coaches. There was a hold up in negotiations over assistants, likely about how much money was available for them, but it also may have been about getting him some new blood or keeping any current staff.
 

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A lot of chatter that Chip Kelly will get the ax in San Fran after Baalke gets (rightfully) fired. If Kelly does get fired, is there anyone who cuts loose their current coach to hire Kelly (realistically-I mean I'd love for BC to can the Dazzler and get him, but that isn't happening). Sumlin? Mora at UCLA?
Oregon.
 

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Willie Taggart's first major hire at Oregon is a good one as he lured Colorado DC Jim Leavitt away to Eugene. Leavitt led a defense that finished #8 in yards allowed per play 2 years after being #120. He also got PAID. He got a 4-year deal that makes him the highest paid coordinator in Pac-12 history.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/story/oregon-ducks-jim-leavitt-defensive-coordinator-hire-willie-taggart-colorado-buffaloes-121416

Coaching is a small world. Taggart's best man in his wedding was Jim Harbaugh. Leavitt worked for Harbaugh in SF.
 

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Leavitt was also the first coach at USF, building the program and coaching them for 14 seasons till 2010. He was let go for tampering with an investigation after he may or may not have struck a player during a halftime speech. Leavitt used to headbutt players wearing helmets, and get cuts on his forehead. Most USF fans like both coaches. It's a like USF west now.
 

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Kiffin has a shot at success at FAU, mainly because C-USA has a power vacuum. Western Kentucky has been top-25 caliber for two seasons, but the rest of the league is awful. Sagarin has them rated as the worst conference this year. Yes, worse than the Sun Belt or MAC. If someone can get improve a team to top-50ish, they can compete for a title.

Also, here are the guys coaching FBS football in Florida, in order of tenure:
Jimbo Fisher, Jim McElwain, Mark Richt, Scott Frost, Butch Davis, Charlie Strong, Lane Kiffin.
Man Lane Kiffin must be the most miserable MF in all of football. Not only did he start dumpster fires at his previous 3 jobs, burning bridges each time and really showing he was the most mserable prick around. Saban gave him a job and a chance to rebuild his reputation, probably as a favor to the father. And Kiffin napalms the bridges on his way out of Tuscaloosa whining about Saban
 
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Minnesota fired Tracy Claeys. It's surprising to me, since they went 9-4 with some close losses, but he was always vulnerable because he was signed last year by an interim AD and had a tiny buy out of $250k per season, so it only cost $2.9m to fire him and his staff.

Whatever coach comes in will have a tough time. The AD was at Boise when Harsin was hired but Harsin should be able to get better gig. PJ Fleck makes lot of sense since he didn't mind blowing things up when he got to WMU; he withdrew every scholarship offer when he got there. They went 1-11 but it worked out pretty good.
 

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Minnesota fired Tracy Claeys. It's surprising to me, since they went 9-4 with some close losses, but he was always vulnerable because he was signed last year by an interim AD and had a tiny buy out of $250k per season, so it only cost $2.9m to fire him and his staff.

Whatever coach comes in will have a tough time. The AD was at Boise when Harsin was hired but Harsin should be able to get better gig. PJ Fleck makes lot of sense since he didn't mind blowing things up when he got to WMU; he withdrew every scholarship offer when he got there. They went 1-11 but it worked out pretty good.
He got fired for supporting 10 of his players suspended for sexual assault.
 

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He got fired for supporting 10 of his players suspended for sexual assault.
Of course, tweeting his support of the team's misguided protest was stupid and makes it an easy move. However, were he hired by the current AD and in possession of a non-laughably small buyout, he might still be the coach. All three things combined make it an easier firing

A buyout that low is crazy. how does an agent let that get signed (if he even had an agent.) It's like what they say about cigarettes in Russia, they're so cheap your losing money not smoking. Minnesota's losing money not firing him.

He was kept through the bowl which is another reason I found it surprising to fire him now. In retrospect that may have been a slick move by the AD, even with missing out on some coaching candidates (Craig Bohl would have been perfect but he just signed an extension at Wyoming last month.)
 
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Of course, tweeting his support of the team's misguided protest was stupid and makes it an easy move. However, were he hired by the current AD and in possession of a non-laughably small buyout, he might still be the coach. All three things combined make it an easier firing

A buyout that low is crazy. how does an agent let that get signed (if he even had an agent.) It's like what they say about cigarettes in Russia, they're so cheap your losing money not smoking. Minnesota's losing money not firing him.

He was kept through the bowl which is another reason I found it surprising to fire him now. In retrospect that may have been a slick move by the AD, even with missing out on some coaching candidates (Craig Bohl would have been perfect but he just signed an extension at Wyoming last month.)
I don't think it was as simple as you are stating though.

He had done pretty well with the team on the field and he was the handpicked successor to Jerry Kill, who is highly regarded up in Minnesota (odd Jerry Kill fact.......he never won a bowl game in his career. I never would have guessed that). I think this really was a case of the University wanting to distance itself as far as it could from this incident. To be honest, it stands in stark contrast to Baylor, Oklahoma and obviously PSU, and I respect them for taking this step.
 

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I'm seeing 5/18.5 for the contract. That's a good get for Minnesota and I wouldn't be surprised if they had contacted Fleck before Claeys was fired. Scout, Rivals and 247 all have WMU with a better recruiting class than Minnesota, Scout has the biggest margin 42 vs 66. WMU has more 3* recruits (19) than Minnesota has total recruits. If he released all of Minnesota's sub-3* scholarship offers (he released every offer when he got to WMU), he could flip WMU recruits and Minnesota already has a brighter future.
 
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Unless Dykes murdered a prostitute or raped a player, the only thing that makes sense is they've already hired someone better.
 

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Dykes interviewed for the Baylor job so that might have ticked off some at Cal. Maybe his agent has continued to put his name out there since.

Or Chip Kelly didn't want to sell his house in SF.