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A couple of new assistant coaching hires to fill you in on this morning. First at Stanford, David Shaw promoted Morgan Turner to tight ends coach. He replaces Ron Crook, who reportedly took the offensive line coaching job at West Virginia. Turn...

Mack Brown has spent time and most of his breath explaining how Texas is poised to become an SEC-like team. If only Texas and Mack Brown could stop the SEC from getting their recruits.

Story | Conversation | February 04, 2013

Hope y'all had a fun weekend. Athlon Sports looks at the nation's top coaching hires -- four of whom, as you know, enter the Big East. The Hartford Courant's Desmond Conner looks at why UConn hired Kermit Buggs as its running backs coach. How...

While a lot of Pac-12 schools have hit home runs with recent coaching hires, history suggests that there's no failsafe formula to ensure success.

Story | Conversation | January 20, 2013

Athlon Sports has graded the first-year coaching hires for the 2012 season, and Ohio State's Urban Meyer checks in at the top of the list. There were 28 coaches who took over programs in 2012, including three from the SEC. Texas A&M's Kevin...

ESPN's Travis Haney has ranked the coaching hires in college football this season, and at the top of his list is Arkansas prying away Bret Bielema from Wisconsin. Haney writes of the Bielema hire: "His coaching style will be a departure from Bobby...

ESPN Insider Travis Haney has ranked the top 15 coaching hires in the country this offseason, and NC State's hire of Dave Doeren from Northern Illinois checked in at No. 10. Here's a snippet of what Haney wrote on Doeren: A Kansas native, what's...

Could it be? Is it true? Did the Big East do the best job of all the conferences with its new hires? I say yes. Give USF, Temple and Cincinnati A's. Check that. A-pluses. Cincinnati stunned just about everybody in America with its hire...

Travis Haney ranks the top 15 coaching hires of the offseason, with Arkansas' hire of Bret Bielema earning the No. 1 spot. Plus, more notes from the coaching carousel.

Blog | Conversation | December 19, 2012

Rod Gilmore evaluates the coaching hires by Auburn and Arkansas of Gus Malzahn and Bret Bielema, analyzing which program is likely to win sooner.

Story | Conversation | December 05, 2012

In what has to be some type of unofficial record for assistant coaching hires in an offseason, Tennessee's Derek Dooley is poised to make his seventh hire since the end of the 2011 season. The Vols lost defensive backs coach Terry Joseph to Nebras...

More of a formality at this point, but USC head coach Lane Kiffin officially announced Marvin Sanders and Scottie Hazelton as coaches. Kiffin initially told recruits at USC's Junior Day over the weekend that Sanders and Hazelton had been hired. Sa...

Rutgers coach Kyle Flood announced a partial list of his coaching hires Monday. Dave Brock, offensive coordinator/wide receivers Dave Cohen, linebackers Darnell Dinkins, tight ends Ben Sirmans, running backs Rob Spence, quarterbacks Dam...

Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel rated the coaching hires across the country this week, and he's clearly split on how the Pac-12 did. He likes Mike Leach to Washington State - a lot - and Rich Rodriguez to Arizona. He's not so impressed with To...

North Carolina has made one of the five best coaching hires this offseason, according to ESPN's Brock Huard. UNC's hire of Larry Fedora checked in at No. 4 on Huard's list. Here's an excerpt of his analysis: Fedora will win at North Carolina, but ho...

ESPN.com's Brock Huard takes a look at the coaching hires in college football this week, and the three in the Pac-12 run the gamut of his ratings. His four categories: "Game-changers," "Ideal fits," "Pendulum swingers" and "Head scratchers." Hu...