Coaching Carousel '21-22

[Lobot]

Pete Sampson is reporting ND is meeting with Tommy Rees to try and keep him on staff. He has an offer at LSU as does Freeman.

Swarbrick is telling The recruiting staff to stay on the road.

[Lobot]

Dennis Dodd does some pretty good reporting on things. This coaching carousel has not been his brightest hour. He’s gone from USC offered Luke the position to turn down to Fickell is staying at UC to NDs waiting on him in a week.

This whole thing is crazy and Dodd might still be right. I’m betting against him today.

[bearcatbret]

I am sorry but the overall community of South Bend is an armpit. I am hoping that with the new salary offer from UC to CLF, it will be good enough to keep him. UC is moving to the Big 12 which will help in many ways. CLF has a ton of children that I am sure that he does not want to move them.

[JohnFrancis]

Kelly to LSU is LSU's 'all in' attempt to nab Arch Manning in a couple of years in my opinion. Kelly worked wonders at UC with multiple injuries to QBs and no matter who came in he got production out of the replacement. Kelly's history with QBs has to be a selling point to Manning. Look what he did with little Ian Book at ND.

[GoBearcats31]

Jac Collinsworth says there is a lot of interest in Freeman among the "ND community" https://twitter.com/JacCollinsworth/...82703178067975

[GoBearcats31]

Fickell is likely gone, this hurts! https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/st...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Not sure the reliability here. Not saying he's wrong, but that I wouldn't take it to mean Fickell is gone. Last week, I shared a tweet from Dodd saying Fickell was staying at Cincinnati, but no one batted an eye. Largely because it seemed people assumed Dodd was basing it off Mario Eugenio telling someone that Fickell told them he was staying.

[leo from jersey]

Fickell is likely gone, this hurts! https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/st...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

We wait and see but I was hoping for more than UC being the stepping stone school.

[gobearcats1]

Fickell is likely gone, this hurts! https://twitter.com/dennisdoddcbs/st...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[Lobot]

Just a heads up, there’s a fake Twitter account out there that mimics NDFootball saying they’ve hired Matt Campbell. It’s a really good fake graphic to be honest. It’s already fooled a few people.

[GoBearcats31]

Tim Prister of Irish Illustrated on with Rocky Boiman and Jason Williams on 700WLW. Said as things stand now, Fickell and Freeman are probably the top candidates, with LF being the top among current head coaches and MF the top among non-current head coaches. Suggested Notre Dame would be more open to someone without head coaching experience and personally suggested Freeman would be a great hire. Rocky said that Freeman has helped take ND recruiting to the next level, which (in his opinion) gives him a leg up. Rocky did not sound personally as high on Matt Campbell but thinks Freeman could make a lot of sense. Prister added that he thinks Tommy Rees (OC) will go to LSU with Brian Kelly.

[Bearcat Chris]

CLF needs to make a Gen. Sherman like statement; “If nominated I will not accept, and if elected I will not serve”. That will end all speculation once and for all, instead of playing this cat and mouse game. One thing is for certain though, I don’t think he will desert the team before the season is completely over.

B.C.

[GoBearcats31]

Kentucky announces contract extension for @UKCoachStoops through 2027 season. Includes guaranteed extensions for any season with seven wins (one-year extension) or 10 wins (two-year extension).

[Chewbacca2099]

Well it's frustrating that they specifically mentioned on the ESPN article that they are willing to wait until playoffs are over to make a hire... That seems to be targeted, I hope they hire freeman and call it a day. If not, I hope we can get him before BK takes him to LSU

[GoCats1994]

From Swarbrick via SI just now:

Notre Dame hasn't made a decision on an interim coach, Jack Swarbrick says. He suggests that the Irish actually might take a different approach and not have an interim coach.

Swarbrick went on to say that they won’t use a search firm.


There are a couple ways you can read that.

1. They’ve got their guy already in Freeman
2. They’re going to have someone in place before the Playoffs.

3. They've got their guy already in CLF. Simply waiting on an exit date.

I actually don't agree that #3 is the correct answer...just pointing out that there are more than 2 scenarios

[made_hand]

http://<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">CFBreaking: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cincinnati?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cinc innati</a> and HC Luke Fickell are close to a big contract extension<br>Per <a href="https://twitter.com/CJGolson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CJGolson</a></p>&mdash; Film Talk Football (@FilmTalkFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FilmTalkFB/status/1465726199360110592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

"CFBreaking: #Cincinnati and HC Luke Fickell are close to a big contract extension Per
@CJGolson
"

Let's hope it is true. Don't know the source.