Louisiana Football Coaching Search

[CajunT]

Well that may very well change now. Originally looked like Texas tech. I know a young lady on the cheer team, his wife was a cheer coach here. She resigned early November and told the squad they were moving.

If not Texas Tech, probably a secondary coach for Billy Napier.

[Bandwagon King]

A totally crazy College Football Head Coaching opening year. We are now up to 25 Head Coaching Job openings this year. Currently 8 of them are still open, 3 P5 jobs, including UVA (ACC), Oklahoma (Big 12) and Duke (ACC) and 5 G5 openings including Colorado State (MWC), Temple (AAC), UL (SunBelt), Fresno (MWC) and FIU (CUSA). Overall we have seen 13 G5 openings, including 3 SBC teams and 12 P5 teams. I still say that we aren't done yet. Their have been some interesting hires this year as well, some going "SPLASH" and some not. Look at some of these:

AKRON--Hired former Moo State HC Joe Moorhead
UCONN--Hired former UCLA and Falcon HC Jim Mora Jr.
Georgia Southern--Hired former USC HC Clay Helton
LSU--Hired ND HC Brian Kelly
NMSU--Hired current TCU Interim HC Jerry Kill
TCU--Hired SMU HC Sonny Dykes
USC--Hired OU HC Lincoln Riley
Washington--Hired Frenso HC Kalen DeBoer

This is crazy and I did not even mention future FBS member Jacksonville State hiring current ULM OC and former HC at multiple stops Rich Rodriguez that technically makes 26.

To put this in perspective over the past 11 seasons 4 times have they had more hires than this:

2011 - 28
2012 - 31
2015 - 29
2018 - 28

I think this could easily reach 28 this year. I would expect that UVA "could" pull from the G5 ranks as well as possibly Duke and Oklahoma as well.

It stands to reason with the carrousel still spinning it would go that, or more.

[Bandwagon King]

Jay was a really good coach here. Very intelligent guy. I would imagine when Mel Tucker got a raise he probably a pretty good raise as well though. Wondering about Tim Rebow & the job he's done at Nicholls State.

[Bandwagon King]

Jay Johnson HC
Dezmo OC
Patrick Toney DC

Dezmo on deck for 3-5 years from now when JJ gets a P5 HC job.

How old is Toney?

[ragincajun97]

How old is Toney?

32 I think

[Bandwagon King]

32 I think

No doubt he's done an outstanding job. The defense has just gotten better & better.

[CharlieK]

No doubt he's done an outstanding job. The defense has just gotten better & better.

Agreed, that defense is the biggest reason we are 11-1.

[CajunVic]

Agreed, that defense is the biggest reason we are 11-1.

Yes that, and many more times than not, we scored more than the opponent . . .

[CharlieK]

Yes that, and many more times than not, we scored more than the opponent . . .

So very clever.

[Turbine]

Yes that, and many more times than not, we scored more than the opponent . . .

Thanks to the defense doing so was an easy task.

[Bankruptcyman]

If not Texas Tech, probably a secondary coach for Billy Napier.

Is a secondary coach at Florida a better job than UL DC?

[RedTails]

ESPN confirmed Napier won’t be coaching bowl game. I believe we all figured this was the case, which means we’ll probably have our new HC announced next Tuesday/Wednesday.