College football’s silly season is underway. The coaching carousel is spinning crazily and players are preparing to explore their options in the transfer portal.
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Jeff Gordon
College football’s silly season is underway. The coaching carousel is spinning crazily and players are preparing to explore their options in the transfer portal.
Nebraska (Matt Rhule), Wisconsin (Luke Fickell) and Arizona State (Kenny Dillingham) led the hiring charge by filling their high-profile vacancies.
Ole Miss kept Lane Kiffin, for now, by giving him more than $9 million per year. That’s crazy money -- and he can collect it without having to deal with insane Auburn boosters.
After getting rejected by Kiffin, Auburn had to explore Plan B, Liberty coach Hugh Freeze, and mull the possibility of a Plan C if Freeze’s checkered past creates too much risk.
Freeze has openly campaigned for the Auburn job while at Liberty, where he furthered this reputation as an offensive innovator while trying to shed the considerable baggage from his colorful stint at Ole Miss.
Rhule won big at Baylor, then flopped miserably in the NFL. The Cornhuskers got in early on him after moving on from hapless Scott Frost.
Fickell had been a hot commodity for a while, thanks to his steady success at Cincinnati. Prior to that he was a defensive coordinator an interim head coach at Ohio State.