Curt Cignetti<\/a> take three years off a new coach\u2019s runway?<\/p>\nBig 12 head coach: <\/strong>Kind of. People don\u2019t realize he killed it and did a phenomenal job, but he also had more support from the university than they\u2019ve ever had. I think it does potentially shorten the runway, but only to admins\u2019 advantages because they don\u2019t hype up their NIL even though they do have good NIL. But I also think the runway for coaches is going to become longer because you need more money to pay your players.<\/p>\nBig Ten assistant 2: <\/strong>Not necessarily, but I think that shows you now that you can do it anywhere. Going from the worst team in college football to doing that \u2014 if you have the right blueprint. I don\u2019t think it gives people more pressure. I think it shows you the reality of what can happen (if you hire the right guy).<\/p>\nSEC assistant:<\/strong> It didn\u2019t help in terms of elongating people\u2019s careers, I know that.<\/p>\nBig 12 personnel staffer: <\/strong>He certainly screwed up the barometer. They are the true outlier in the history of outliers. I say this as someone who works in personnel; it\u2019d always been, \u201cWell, they have the best players,\u201d but you can\u2019t say that about Indiana. They didn\u2019t have better players than the teams they beat on their pathway to the title \u2014 Oregon, Alabama, Ohio State, Miami.<\/p>\nBig Ten assistant 5:<\/strong> Yeah. Forget the five-year plan. He did it in two years and he inherited a worse situation than you. You\u2019ve got two years now to prove it.<\/p>\nWhat\u2019s your prediction for how the coaching carousel will change in the next five years?<\/p>\n
American head coach 2:<\/strong> I think it\u2019ll be very active each year, but I think there\u2019ll be contracts with some subtle changes in how they\u2019re structured. Per-year income will increase, and buyout will be decreased to protect athletic directors and the school from a PR perspective.<\/p>\nCUSA head coach:<\/strong> I almost feel like we might start seeing shorter contracts like in the NFL. Three years and triggers if you win so many games. \u2026 There\u2019s gotta be some smaller contracts.<\/p>\nBig 12 head coach:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think (schools are) gonna fire as fast because they know they\u2019re going to lose their entire team. And I think you\u2019re going to see more coaches jump from Power 4 to Power 4 because you can take your whole team with you. I think you\u2019re going to see more lateral-esque moves than you ever have.<\/p>\nBig Ten assistant 1:<\/strong> I think more coaches will want to go to the NFL.<\/p>\nBig Ten assistant 3:<\/strong> I think it could potentially be a lot like the NFL. Just kind of wait until the coaches are done, let them get done coaching their team, so you won\u2019t have a situation like Ole Miss\/LSU.<\/p>\nACC analyst:<\/strong> The carousel will get much younger. \u2026 (Until) about two years ago, the glut of money in college sports went into facilities and staffs. Except for the top 20-25 revenue programs, it is now all (rightly) in players. So the jobs will be more entry-level oriented with one or two older analysts. Staffs will get younger, schools will hire younger, and it will look more like the NFL. \u2026 They\u2019ll actually be hiring people who have been a head coach or a coordinator<\/p>\nSEC head coach<\/strong>: The appetite for paying buyouts (will be) cyclical, like we saw a couple of years ago when the only P4 jobs open were West Virginia, North Carolina and UCF, so I think we\u2019re going to see some years where we have lower turnover. \u2026 Because what really needs to matter is, can you pay your roster $40 million? The new number in our sport right now is $40 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a typical year, Florida might have been the most attractive college football job opening. In 2025, there…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":646536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[8803,8804,1428,1382,1318,3919,9443,8798,7800,1317,1315,1316,13874,4733,1381,62,222,1366,9662,35598,8800,67,132,68,35605],"class_list":{"0":"post-646535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-arkansas-razorbacks","9":"tag-auburn-tigers","10":"tag-college-football","11":"tag-florida-gators","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-georgia-bulldogs","14":"tag-indiana-hoosiers","15":"tag-iowa-state-cyclones","16":"tag-michigan-wolverines","17":"tag-ncaa","18":"tag-ncaa-football","19":"tag-ncaafootball","20":"tag-notre-dame-fighting-irish","21":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","22":"tag-penn-state-nittany-lions","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-sports-business","25":"tag-stanford-cardinal","26":"tag-texas-longhorns","27":"tag-tulane-green-wave","28":"tag-ucla-bruins","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-virginia-tech-hokies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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