Filed under: Alabama, Auburn, Boise State, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi State, Ohio State, Tennessee, Texas, USC
There is no other profession in America like college football coaching. None. Nowhere else can the mere mention of your name in association with a job offer lead to such rapid raises either from a new employer or your old employer. That's because every college coaching contract is worthless. Oh, sure there may be a piddling buyout associated with the coaching contract, but in general every year brings a brand new season of perpetual coaching free agency, the annual Christmas bonus for coaches. It's inevitable. The only thing more ridiculous than the lack of value associated with college coaching contracts is the e-mails I always receive from fans who are quick to point out the particularly valueless "new extension" that will ensure their coach never leaves.
Until, predictably, he leaves.
I call this coaching dominoes because of the unpredictable ramifications that can ensue from one opening that seems entirely unrelated to your own school yet can end up impacting it immensely. Let's play coaching dominoes in the SEC, for instance. Miami is a big-time job opening. Let's say that the Hurricanes could entice Georgia's Mark Richt -- he played quarterback four years for the Canes from 1979-1982 -- to take their job, a very real possibility. Then what happens? I'll tell you, coaching dominoes are in play.
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