2025-26 College Football Coach Fired/Hired Thread

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Getting blown out by New Mexico and Old Dominion was gasoline on the smoldering hot seat. Billy Napier still hanging in there....
 





I feel like both of these jobs historically have been linked to flecks name

I think Virginia tech is an okay job.
UCLA is a bottom 3 job in the big ten (with Purdue and northwestern)
It’s neck and neck with Rutgers probably but Rutgers has more realistic expectations
 

Honest question:

is Cal a better job than UCLA?


How can a school like Cal get a 5 star QB?? Maybe they won't hang onto him ... but they got him. Someone else point out too: lot of former NFL or P4 head coaches on that staff.

I didn't Cal football was every anything historically?
 














Some guy said:
I feel like both of these jobs historically have been linked to flecks name

I think Virginia tech is an okay job.
UCLA is a bottom 3 job in the big ten (with Purdue and northwestern)
It’s neck and neck with Rutgers probably but Rutgers has more realistic expectations
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Virginia Tech is like Kansas State. A tough job that one coach elevated for 20 + years and everyone else will struggle with.
 


howeda7 said:
Virginia Tech is like Kansas State. A tough job that one coach elevated for 20 + years and everyone else will struggle with.
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I think it’s in a better spot to recruit than K state

I also think K state is maybe basketball school whereas Va tech is definitely a football school

Both those jobs are better than UCLA
 


Klieman at K-State has taken a step down each year since the great 2022 season. Small steps the last two, but might be a big step down this year.

Big 12 is harder now .. in the sense of total wins. Probably easier to win the whole thing if you're a top team, since no Texas or OU, but there are a lot of mid-high level teams that can all beat each other every week.
 

GopherGrit said:
Klieman at K-State has taken a step down each year since the great 2022 season. Small steps the last two, but might be a big step down this year.

Big 12 is harder now .. in the sense of total wins. Probably easier to win the whole thing if you're a top team, since no Texas or OU, but there are a lot of mid-high level teams that can all beat each other every week.
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Definitely not true.
 

Some guy said:
I think it’s in a better spot to recruit than K state

I also think K state is maybe basketball school whereas Va tech is definitely a football school

Both those jobs are better than UCLA
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Why is UCLA such a bad job? Seems like it’d be easier to recruit to than any of the non blue blood Midwest schools.
 

howeda7 said:
Virginia Tech is like Kansas State. A tough job that one coach elevated for 20 + years and everyone else will struggle with.
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VT is tougher in my opinion due to being in a conference with FSU, Miami, and Clemson. You don’t face as many recruiting discrepancies in the big12, none of the teams in that conference are world beaters at recruiting.
 

btowngopher said:
Why is UCLA such a bad job? Seems like it’d be easier to recruit to than any of the non blue blood Midwest schools.
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Because they have less money than northwestern and almost fired chip kelly for going 9-4

That’s it. That’s why

The resources to expectations ratio is one of the worst in the nation
 
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btowngopher said:
Why is UCLA such a bad job? Seems like it’d be easier to recruit to than any of the non blue blood Midwest schools.
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There's also much more competition. In Minnesota PJ has been able to lock down the borders and keep almost all of the best talent in every season. That's a great foundation to recruit off of that smaller fish in more talent-filled states like California, Florida and Texas don't get.
 




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