In this subscriber episode, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex revisit 28 head coach transitions before the 2012 college football season. This was one of the most consequential coach carousels of the 21st century, with lots of very good, lots of very bad, plenty in the middle, and also the John L. Smith situation:
THE GOOD
9:29: Urban Meyer to Ohio State
16:05: Mike Leach to Washington State
22:39: Bill O’Brien to Penn State
31:34: Justin Fuente to Memphis
34:28: Matt Campbell to Toledo
35:31: Jim McElwain to Colorado State
36:55: Gus Malzahn to Arkansas State
39:28: Terry Bowden to Akron
THE WHATEVER
41:36: Jim Mora Jr. to UCLA
46:54: Todd Graham to Arizona State
50:28: Paul Chryst to Pitt
51:10: Larry Fedora to North Carolina
53:42: Kyle Flood to Rutgers
55:45: Bob Davie to New Mexico
56:46: Tim DeRuyter to Fresno State
THE UGLY
58:05: Tim Beckman to Illinois
59:00: Tony Levine to Houston
1:00:59: Curtis Johnson to Tulane
1:01:59: Norm Chow to Hawaii
1:05:54: Charley Molnar to UMass
1:06:21: Garrick McGee to UAB
1:13:08: Carl Pelini to FAU
1:17:05: Ellis Johnson to Southern Miss
1:19:25: Charlie Weis to Kansas
1:28:00: John L. Smith to Arkansas
THE DEBATABLE
1:20:48: Kevin Sumlin to Texas A&M
1:21:36: Hugh Freeze to Ole Miss
1:25:02: Rich Rodriguez to Arizona
Produced by Anthony Vito.
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