Tuberville to Arkansas? Les Miles to Michigan? Saban to LSU? Nutt to Ole Miss! Where is your coach going to be next year? Let us get right into it.
Orgeron was fired. That left Ole Miss open.
Nutt resigned and that left Arkansas open.
Nutt was hired at Ole Miss one day later.
Les Miles has a clause in his contract that says he can go to Michigan, if the job opens up.
Carr retired from the Michigan job. That left the Michigan job open.
Michigan still had to ask permission to talk to Les Miles. They did that this week and LSU will let them talk to Miles Monday.
Les Miles has the stipulation in his contract for a reason. He is a Michigan man and he will most likely take the job.
Tuberville was supposed to sign a contract extension at Auburn Thursday. He did not show up. That night there were reports out of Arkansas that Tuberville would be the next head coach at Arkansas.
Tuberville was hunting while the allegations were made of his Arkansas hire. He said he was mad about the rumors. Jacobs, the Auburn AD, said that Tuberville could not have been contacted because it states in his contract that Jacobs has to be contacted in order for any school to talk to Tuberville or Sexton, Tuberville’s agent. That leads one to believe that Tuberville is angry that the rumors were started, or that Tuberville is angry that the deal was leaked because he would be in breach of contract.
Sexton was at the Cowboys game Thursday night. Some people said he was talking to Jones, the Cowboys owner, about getting Arkansas enough money to hire Tuberville. Tuberville has about a $5 million buy out and Jones graduated from Arkansas. He is a huge booster.
Tuberville has not made any real statements since Thursday night, so he is either playing Arkansas to get more money from Auburn, or he is going to Arkansas. By the way, Tuberville wants more money for him and his assistants, and he wants newer facilities at Auburn.
Butch Davis is another big name for the Arkansas job.
Nick Saban is rumored to go to LSU. This is unfounded. There are no news links besides blogs and message boards.
Spurrier would be a good fit for LSU. There are no links for that, but there is chatter.
I will keep yall posted as the news comes in. Please leave a comment if you know of a fact I left out. This is not the news. This is a blog. I can make a mistake, but I am pretty sure of the statements above. I know we all take our SEC coaches seriously. I got the news from several news sites and other blogs. Too many to list.
December 1st, 2007 at 9:27 am
That did not take long. I just went to http://www.trackemtigers.com/storyonly/2007/11/30/21530/376 . Tuberville has an extension on the table and he has a month to think about it. He got a fat raise, and we will hear more in the coming days about the assistant coaches raise. This will be very interesting how he plays the field and how long Arkansas will want to play. If Les Miles takes the Michigan job, that will open a can of worms.
this is great.
December 1st, 2007 at 10:14 am
I heard a little news about a Butch Davis signing @ Arkansas tonight. This is not confirmed.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3135858
Nebraska to name LSU defensive coordinator Pelini as coach Early next week.
December 1st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
If you want to talk about the coaching changes with other fans, join the forums. They are free and easy. Here is the link to the SEC general discussion forum. You can talk about all the changes and how they will effect yuor team. http://secfootballblogger.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=14
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:46 am
Michigan will hire Les Miles next week. ESPN.com reports http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3136391
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:49 am
Miles just announced that he is going to stay at a press conference, and he told his team that. He was pretty convincing. Who knows now?
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 am
Detroit news reports that Miles will not be coming. “I am the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU,” Miles said Saturday. “I have no interest in talking to anybody else.” . I guess if your money can talk your coach won’t walk. Auburn better learn from this.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071201/UPDATE/712010413/1131/SPORTS0201
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:06 am
Glad to know that our coach will still be at home next year…Thank goodness we have Mark Richt! GO DAWGS!
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:50 am
video of the press conference where Les Miles says he will stay at LSU.
http://assets.espn.go.com/ivp/player/player158.swf?mediaId=3136586&n8pe6c=3
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:04 am
Yes,I would say he was more than a bit upset earlier but he should be happy now that they won the SEC.
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:57 am
Billy Donovan, and Nick Saban. Those are two names that will all bring us down to Earth. I will believe all statements when the ink is dry. I think you can throw Rich Rodriguez in there as well. These are stories that have all gone down in the past year.
December 2nd, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Confirmed, Pelini is Nebraskas new Head Coach. http://mvn.com/ncaa-nebraska/2007/12/02/its-official-pelini-named-husker-head-coach/
December 5th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
This is the final word on Tuberville. He said is staying.
This is the final word on Les Miles. He said he is staying, but the contract has been put off.
Tommy Bowden, who was on Arkansas radar, is staying at Clemson.
The only open coaching seat is Arkansas and it looks like no one is jumping out of their seet to coach there.
Lets all wait till we see the ink on the dotted line. This story is not done yet.
December 6th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Grobe changed his mind. He will stay @ Wake Forest. This is the ESPN link to read about it. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3143977
Does anyone want to coach the Hogs?
December 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Petrino is the next head coach at Arkansas. He resigned at the Falcons. He coached 13 games in the pros and decided the grass was indeed greener in the college stadiums.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7553354