Escambia94,
(Under the heading, "I Don't NEED 'Admirers' 'Cause Every Now & Then I Impress MYSELF!"-Dept.
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(You know, I think this "icon" even LOOKS a bit like me...)
Taking this all in the order you covered it, E- (where declining grades also become more and more vague in meaning AND reliability, it strikes me)...
--Auburn gets Malzahn: Good hire, but they BOTH may come to wish they'd chosen to wait on this one, come up with a serviceable, even "promising" transitional hire...As I imply elsewhere about the Auburn job, this is a "six year project with a three year time-limit" in terms of where "rabid fans' expectations" intersect with likely time and difficulty in actually achieving what needs to be accomplished. The reason I projected STRONG not taking it was he could see this, and would let someone ELSE get fired after getting most of the "dirty work" done for the NEXT guy--better to be the "next guy" (and that wasn't the way it timed out for Charley--or for poor Gus, either, I'm guessing, looking ahead)...Oh well, maybe the Auburn AD, boosters and fans will come to recognize how big a job this is, how long it MUST take, and how lucky they are to now have "the right person for the job", and will let him have The Time He Needs To Get It DONE--Because they've always been so reasonable and understanding in this way up 'til now, right?...As for the questions regarding Chizik, dubious player backgrounds and the NCAA's history re going after such violations by them in the past, well, THAT at least hasn't been an issue, has it? They've been real diligent about pursuing this sort of thing in the recent past, now haven't they? (Uh, this is sarcasm and irony on my part, um, hinting at the whole Newton-"thing" and the way "those diligent investigators and enforcement arm at the NCAA" have really "held their feet-to-the-fire", would be the point I am highlighting here, y'all understand...)
--Arkansas' getting Bielema on what some would try to present as a "lateral move" from HC @ Wisconsin over to the same with the Razorbacks, but the very fact it was VOLUNTARY makes a lie of THAT: Lower-tier team in The Best Conference in College Football BY FAR, from the current Rose Bowl-rep from The Big & Slow Ten is itself a move UP, even WITHOUT taking into account that NEITHER above cases tells the whole story (as in, Arkansas has some talent on their squad, but fell hard this season in shock and confusion, leaderless after Petrino's self-inflicted wounds and beatings, while the Badgers are going BCS-bowling by-default, since the "SU's" "O" and "P", each ranked higher, were suspended from participating in 2012).
--Here's where it comes out how I'm just too big a man to say "I told you so" (Oh well, so much for that little piece of self-promotion)...Just a matter of "thinking it through", ya know? I don't claim to know how committed Charley is to staying at Louisville, but he's gone about as "high" as he can go there--from now on it'd be about security and settling in at that plateau, and even if that program would or COULD match an SEC-style pay-grade-plus-package-of-benefits (which is a damn big "IF", after all) there is some question if that would be enough for him...in other words, would "enough" BE enough? Tennessee, though messed up BIG TME by Kiffy and his shenanigans (How does he keep getting this colossal PASS from the media-f*cks, no matter how little he accomplishes versus how big a mess is left wherever he goes?), a mess (again discussed elsewhere) that Dooley seemed at a loss to get organized in his time there, but DID get a pretty good start on restocking with talent--if haphazard in the way he was going about it: It didn't appear there was much but "how many stars?" being asked in consideration of recruiting, but there IS some talent there now, albeit uneven in frequency and depth--and VERY young and inexperienced. You get the feeling that a coach like Strong will put things right and have them headed in the right direction in sharply up-tempo fashion, though: I am torn between wanting them back as our "worthy rival" 3rd week of September each season, and not having so much to WORRY about them in the first place in our schedule, making "undefeated" that much more DOABLE...Still: "Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime!!!" is our Coach's proud battle cry, and if it is going to BE that way we need to all accept it ALL-THE-WAY.
--Ky. got Stoops-the-younger in the first domino to fall here--and this one was harder to figure , at least for Stoops...How much of this is Mark determined-to-walk-his-OWN-road, make his OWN name for himself? I don't know--I'm just asking: I have no information or insight either way. Seems a rough and tough journey for whatever coach accepts its challenge though, either way...
--Which brings us down to your "side note" (?), or the more logical "basement" of this "house-of-cards"? We ARE talking about "The Notorious Dazzler" after all, "The Dive Master", "He Who Must Not Be Named at GE", and so on...and on, ad infinitum...(Never mind The Brat In The Colliseum--let's see how quickly he continues to get hired now that you're not getting his venerable Daddy WITH him on-the-CHEAP, Btw) What I don't quite get is how THIS guy still keeps getting to bail on his bad showings with blind offers from NEW jobs: I thought Temple, already sharing bad luck with its LAST coach (Golden) when he parlayed great progress there into what-turned-OUT-to-be crushing disaster upon arriving at UM, foolishly brought in Meyer's Fall-Guy as THEIR next HC on the strength of him CLEARLY being over-matched as his 1-yr.-stint suddenly-elevated-to-OC at UF showed him to be; Now BC similarly brings him over for the same job after Temple's precipitous drop-off under him? WEIRD.
Well, there it all is, The up-to-the-HOUR, if not minute "Coaching Carousel Report".
THAT was fun--and I think I even covered it all--thanx to your "outline/overview", E-.
