Top 10 jobs that Might/Will Open, and their next head coach

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Top 10 jobs that Might/Will Open, and their next head coach

With lots of college coaching job changes on the horizon, we thought we would rank the Top 10 Jobs that Might/Will be opening up at the end of the season. Who knows if all of these jobs will open, but if they do here is how we would rank them starting with the most attractive and the place where a coach would have the opportunity to win championships very quickly. We also include who the schools should hire and the 2nd choice if they cannot get our ideal candidate. We list some coaches with more than 1 school, because some of these coaches will be in great demand.



LSU – If Les Miles heads to Michigan then no doubt this will be the best job opening in the off-season. The monster that Nick Saban built in Baton Rouge is only increasing in strength and even a good football coach should be able to put up SEC and National Championships in the years to come.

Who LSU should hire: Bo Pelini

2nd Choice: Jimbo Fisher



Florida State – If Coach Bowden decides to retire this year, and who in the world would want to be working at 78 years of age, Florida State would be one of the best jobs opening up in the off-season. No doubt what Coach Bowden has done at FSU in the past 32 years will be something that we will tell our grandchildren about. Those FSU/Miami games stick out in our minds as some of the best theater in the history of the game, and Coach Bowden can be assured that he will remembered as long as a football is teed up in this country.

Who Florida State should hire: Rich Rodriguez

2nd Choice: Jimbo Fisher



Michigan – If Lloyd Carr decides to retire then he could depart knowing that he would leave the Wolverine football program in the hands of a former Michigan player and someone who has put up an incredible won/loss record at LSU in Les Miles. It would not be as easy to win in Ann Arbor as Baton Rouge, and Miles just might want that challenge so he can prove that he is more than Nick Saban’s valet.

Who Michigan should hire: Les Miles

2nd Choice: Brian Kelly



Texas A&M – The tradition at A&M is second to none and even a good football coach should be able to win big in College Station. The problem is the people hiring coaches at A&M in the past didn’t have a clue to hire a football coach that both knew what he was doing and that fit within the very unique culture that makes an Aggie an Aggie. If Bill Byrne is smart he will focus like a laser beam on a coach that will embrace all that A&M is, and someone that could at least whip one of Snow White’s 7 dwarfs if need be. That has not been the case at A&M lately.

Who Texas A&M should hire: Rich Rodriguez

2nd Choice: Paul Johnson



Arkansas – The word out of Fayetteville is that Nutt might not want to come back even if the Hog fans wanted him to hang around. Something has gone very wrong between Houston Nutt and the Razorback fans, and it can be traced directly to Houston Nutt’s arrogance, because that led to the player’s leaving in the first place, the fans desire to dig into his personal life, and the angst that so many average Hog fans have towards Nutt and his staff. In the end Houston Nutt forgot that he is a football coach, not Caesar running a far flung empire, and like Caesar it will be Nutt's own people that will do him in.

Who Arkansas should hire: Mike Leach

2nd Choice: Art Briles



Penn State – Much like Bobby Bowden, it is hard for us to understand someone that wants to go to work everyday at 81 years of age, because there is so much more to life than college football, but to each his own. If Coach Paterno does decide to retire, his legacy will be as strong as Coach Bowden’s and images of both men’s teams will be running through our heads for years to come.

Who Penn State should hire: Brian Kelly

2nd Choice: Greg Schiano



Nebraska – Some people say that Nebraska is Nebraska no more, but we here at Coaches Hot Seat have seen the Husker football program and people up close, and if they get a coach in there that actually has a clue to what he is doing, Nebraska football will win big again. That being said, Nebraska much like Texas A&M needs a unique person that will embrace the past but also fight like hell in the present and future. Nebraska football will roll again, and it will be up to Coach Osborne to find someone who will bring some toughness back to Lincoln, Nebraska.

Who Nebraska should hire: Paul Johnson

2nd Choice: Jim Grobe



UCLA – We have said it in the past, but UCLA should be a powerhouse football program. They have a great campus, they play in the most famous stadium in the game, and they are sitting right in the middle of one of the hottest recruiting spots in the country. There is no excuse for any coach not to win big at UCLA, certainly not a coach that is in his fifth season in Westwood.

Who UCLA should hire: Chris Peterson

2nd Choice: Bronco Mendenhall



Georgia Tech – There is just no excuse why a Georgia Tech football coach should have won only 58% of his football games in his sixth season. If a 58% winning percentage is good enough for Yellow Jacket fans, then they might as well sell all of the football equipment to the local Army-Navy store and put all the footballs away, because Georgia Tech football is dead. Tech is a very tough school academically, but there are enough smart kids these days in a recruiting hotbed that Georgia Tech sits right in the middle of to find 22 guys who want to play the game of football.

Who Georgia Tech should hire: Charlie Strong

2nd Choice: Paul Johnson



SMU – There is no reason that SMU should not be winning on a regular basis in Conference USA, and sitting in a town the size and quality of Dallas there is no reason that SMU should not be able to attract a first rate coach to it’s school. SMU has great facilities, an AD that played football and knows the game, and there are thousands of high school players that can play on the division I-A level within 250 miles of the school. That being said, SMU needs a guy that knows how to run an innovative and entertaining offense, so that the city of Dallas can get energized around the school and it’s football team.

Who SMU should hire: Dave Christensen

2nd Choice: Terry Bowden

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Florida State – If Coach Bowden decides to retire this year, and who in the world would want to be working at 78 years of age, Florida State would be one of the best jobs opening up in the off-season. No doubt what Coach Bowden has done at FSU in the past 32 years will be something that we will tell our grandchildren about. Those FSU/Miami games stick out in our minds as some of the best theater in the history of the game, and Coach Bowden can be assured that he will remembered as long as a football is teed up in this country.

Who Florida State should hire: Rich Rodriguez
2nd Choice: Jimbo Fisher


WHAT ABOUT TERRY BOWDEN @ FLORIDA STATE?
WOULDN'T HIS DAD HAVE INPUT?

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BOTH BOWDENS

[NewPonyFan]

Neither of the Coach Bowdens currently coaching are going anywhere.

Terry will be going somewhere - the question is only where.

[SMUtrojanFAN]

I think I read somewhere that Terry has said he would never want to follow his father's act at FSU.

[JesuitPony]

I know a few Noles boosters and they've told me that Jimbo Fisher is being groomed to take over for Papa Bowden. Mark Richt's name will also be in the mix, but he will likely stay put at Georgia as he has a long term contract and has a pretty good program on his hands.