The Athletic: Who will be coaching your school in 2030? Predicting every Power 4 football program’s head man

[caliGopher]

File under, it's the offseason, and we need clicks......

Per Russo:

“Minnesota
Current: P.J. Fleck (Year 10)
2030: Bryant Haines, Indiana defensive coordinator
Haines was hard to place because on one hand the Broyles Award winner seems on track to land a head coaching job as soon as this year. On the other, the P4 market might be a bit slow this cycle.”


UCLA
Current: Bob Chesney (Year 1)
2030: P.J. Fleck, Minnesota head coach
Fleck is a fascinating case study. He has done an undeniably good job in his decade at Minnesota. You have to go back to the first half of the 1900s to find a Gophers football coach with a better winning percentage than Fleck’s .600. But he has cracked double-digit wins with the Gophers only once, in 2019. He has given Minnesota no reason to fire him while also never really positioning himself as a hot candidate for a potential upgrade.”


The article reports that Chesney is successful at UCLA and replaces Wittingham at Michigan.

 

[Lifeleadership]

Fleck will retire as the Gopher Football Coach, if allowed to. I truly believe that. Just my opinion. Most people will probably disagree which is OK. He is a perfect fit for Minnesota and will continue to build something special here. Am I dreaming? Probably. It would not be easy to start from scratch once again. He has built a great foundation at Minnesota. And he gets paid well. You can't tell me he doesn't have a great job here in Minnesota. Yep, he needs more financial backing for his Assistant Coaches, I'm hoping that happens. I think most Gopher fans appreciate what he has done in his 9 years. The best is still ahead of us. Fleck has really adjusted well with NIL, the portal and the new world of College Football. Looking forward to a great 2026 season.
Go Gophers!

 

[Some guy]

UCLA is a place more difficult to win with higher expectations.

UCLA is one of the few big ten jobs that’s clearly worse than Mn

imo

 

[ergopher]

File under, it's the offseason, and we need clicks......

Per Russo:

“Minnesota
Current: P.J. Fleck (Year 10)
2030: Bryant Haines, Indiana defensive coordinator
Haines was hard to place because on one hand the Broyles Award winner seems on track to land a head coaching job as soon as this year. On the other, the P4 market might be a bit slow this cycle.”


UCLA
Current: Bob Chesney (Year 1)
2030: P.J. Fleck, Minnesota head coach
Fleck is a fascinating case study. He has done an undeniably good job in his decade at Minnesota. You have to go back to the first half of the 1900s to find a Gophers football coach with a better winning percentage than Fleck’s .600. But he has cracked double-digit wins with the Gophers only once, in 2019. He has given Minnesota no reason to fire him while also never really positioning himself as a hot candidate for a potential upgrade.”


The article reports that Chesney is successful at UCLA and replaces Wittingham at Michigan.

If Fleck wanted to coach at UCLA he would have left after the '23 season like some thought he would. Not to mention, UCLA is a clear downgrade. He will either coach here until he retires or go to Notre Dame/Ohio State at some point if he coaches good enough to be in consideration.

 

[Tech Machine]

File under, it's the offseason, and we need clicks......

Per Russo:

“Minnesota
Current: P.J. Fleck (Year 10)
2030: Bryant Haines, Indiana defensive coordinator
Haines was hard to place because on one hand the Broyles Award winner seems on track to land a head coaching job as soon as this year. On the other, the P4 market might be a bit slow this cycle.”


UCLA
Current: Bob Chesney (Year 1)
2030: P.J. Fleck, Minnesota head coach
Fleck is a fascinating case study. He has done an undeniably good job in his decade at Minnesota. You have to go back to the first half of the 1900s to find a Gophers football coach with a better winning percentage than Fleck’s .600. But he has cracked double-digit wins with the Gophers only once, in 2019. He has given Minnesota no reason to fire him while also never really positioning himself as a hot candidate for a potential upgrade.”


The article reports that Chesney is successful at UCLA and replaces Wittingham at Michigan.

You are so right, I don’t know what is worse, the boredom of no foorball or this inane crap that comes out every week on multiple sites. I actually have started to ignore.

 

[Gopher_Devil]

“the P4 market might be a bit slow this cycle”

Funniest thing I’ve read in a while

 

[Some guy]

“the P4 market might be a bit slow this cycle”

Funniest thing I’ve read in a while

Correct 25% of the nfl will change coaches in a year

Apply that to power 4 and it could be 16 coaches per year or so in the power 4