A final offering of news and notes you need to know as Week 4’s action-packed, star-studded slate gets underway in earnest. Topics we cover in this week’s college football insider notebook:
Expanded CFP likely to delay carousel
Ahead of a wild coaching carousel in late 2021, Luke Fickell looked poised to have his pick.
Fickell was one of the hottest names in the country in a year where premier jobs such as LSU, Miami, Notre Dame, Oregon, Oklahoma and USC all opened up. Notre Dame, specifically, was a serious possibility as a potential next step for him.
Yet, at the end, Fickell was still coaching his Cincinnati Bearcats.
The reason was that Cincinnati made the four-team College Football Playoff that year, the first Group of Five team to do so, and Fickell had no interest in leaving his program in the middle of a playoff run. That desire to wait until after his season didn’t line up with the timelines of those hiring schools, even if some would have loved to hire Fickell.
One Power Four athletic director referenced the Fickell situation to CBS Sports this week as a preview of what could come in this hiring cycle, especially heading into this first season of the expanded 12-team CFP. Due to the college football calendar, the transfer portal and an accelerated recruiting timeline, it’s even harder now for ADs to wait on a top candidate, which has led to questions around the industry about the possible impact of expanded playoff on the coaching cycle. The early signing period is two weeks earlier this year, starting on Dec. 4. Then the transfer portal window opens the following week on Dec. 9.
“I don’t think you go to plan B or C just because somebody’s in the playoff.”
Power Four AD
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Source link : https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/insider-notebook-new-cfp-may-delay-coaching-carousel-opposing-coach-says-manning-even-better-than-ewers/
Author : Matt Zenitz
Publish date : 2024-09-20 15:50:03
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