SUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Godfrey joins Richard and Alex for a discussion of the major coaching moves that went down on Conference Championship Weekend, led by Penn State’s hire of Matt Campbell and all of the associated fallout:
Penn State’s coaching search got VERY messy. It ended with a solid hire. Was this bad process, and if so, how much does that matter going forward?
A digression about Kalani Sitake sticking with BYU
Iowa State backfills with Jimmy Rogers, leaving Wazzu high and dry
The interesting experiment that will be Tosh Lupoi at Cal
Why Mark Stoops gave Kentucky a hand with his buyout timing
The winding journey of Oregon State hire JaMarcus Shephard
Jason Candle’s departure for UConn is another blow for the MAC
The backfilling of a bunch of great G5 jobs, including some head-scratchers
Man, nobody wanted the UAB job
Brent Pry, Zach Arnett, and the objectively weird situation of fired head coaches joining up as coordinators at the schools that canned them
Produced by Anthony Vito.
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