2018 Official Ragin Pagin Football Coaching Carousel Thread

[Cajunfanatico]

Footballscoop:

Jeff Schultz is reporting the Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson is retiring.

A staunch believer in the option game, Johnson has been the head coach at GT since 2008, compiling a 82-59 record.

Prior to taking over in Atlanta, Johnson was the head coach at Navy, where he went 45-29 from 2002-2007. PJ got his first head coaching opportunity at Georgia Southern from 1997-2001, where he led the program to two I-AA (now FCS) national titles in 1999 and 2000, going 62-10 overall before leaving for Annapolis.

Georgia Tech becomes the 14th head coaching job to come open this off season. Bowling Green (Scot Loeffler), Kansas (Les Miles), North Carolina (Mack Brown), and Western Kentucky (Tyson Helton) have all been filled.

http://footballscoop.com/news/report...-georgia-tech/

[ManAboutTown]

Feldman reporting WVU OC Jake Spavital is the new Texas St Head coach.

[Rainman66]

Report: Jake Spavital to be next Texas State head coach https://t.co/glHjtcRYV6

— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) November 28, 2018

[cajun_lannister]

Report: Jake Spavital to be next Texas State head coach https://t.co/glHjtcRYV6

— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) November 28, 2018

Extremely good hire by Texas state

[ManAboutTown]

Extremely good hire by Texas state

Agreed. If they get rid of Teis, they will be a force to be reckoned with very soon.

[ManAboutTown]

Feldman also reporting JMU's Mike Houston to Charlotte.. Another home run hire.

[Rainman66]

JMU head coach Mike Houston expected to be new head coach at Charlotte reports Bruce Feldman https://t.co/3RQlOTVKHJ

— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) November 28, 2018

[CajunNation]

Extremely good hire by Texas state

I'll wait and see on that. My Mom could be the OC at WVU and they would score the same with Holgerson.

Prior to that, he had a short stint at Cal, and prior to that he was let go at TAMU.

[ManAboutTown]

I'll wait and see on that. My Mom could be the OC at WVU and they would score the same with Holgerson.

Prior to that, he had a short stint at Cal, and prior to that he was let go at TAMU.

Following his playing career at Missouri State, Spavital became a member of the coaching staff at Tulsa in 2008 where he worked as an offensive quality control assistant under Gus Malzahn. Following the 2008 season Spavital became a graduate assistant at Houston. While at Houston, Spavital worked under head coach Kevin Sumlin and offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen. Spavital became familiar with Holgorsen's offense while working at Houston, and when Holgorsen became the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State in 2010 he took Spavital with him and gave him the same position of graduate assistant. Spavital was an essential piece of Holgorsen's coaching staff at Oklahoma State because he was the only person on the staff familiar with the offense that Holgorsen ran. Spavital helped teach the new offense to QB Brandon Weeden, who was nearly two years older than Spavital. That season, Oklahoma State went 11-2 and Weeden was third in the nation in yards per game and total yards as well as sixth in the nation in touchdowns.[1][2]

When Holgorsen became the head coach at West Virginia, before the 2011 season he took Spavital with him and made him the quarterbacks coach. While at West Virginia Spavital coached Geno Smith. Under Spavital's coaching Smith would break numerous West Virginia, NCAA, and bowl records.

When Texas A&M offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury left Texas A&M to become the head coach at Texas Tech, A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin offered Spavital the position.[3] At Texas A&M, Spavital started as the co-offensive coordinator with Clarence McKinney and was the quarterbacks coach. In the 2013 season, he coached the reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel.

On January 3, 2016 Spavital and Texas A&M mutually parted ways.[4]

On February 11, 2016 Spavital was announced as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the California Golden Bears football team. On January 8, 2017, following the firing of head coach Sonny Dykes, it was announced that Spavital would serve as interim head coach at Cal. [5]

On January 13, 2017 it was announced that Spavital would be returning to West Virginia as Offensive Coordinator rejoining Holgorsen and Offensive Line Coach Joe Wickline who he coached with while with Holgorsen at Oklahoma State.

[Million$Mullet]

Spavital was a mystery man in our coaching search. He was my top choice before Napier. This is definitely a home run hire.

[cajun_lannister]

Agreed. If they get rid of Teis, they will be a force to be reckoned with very soon.

Fire Teis Hire Farmer

[ManAboutTown]

Fire Teis Hire Farmer

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