From The Rumble Seat · Oct 20, 2021
Back Seat Coachin’: Proof of concept
Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports The podcast Split Zone Duo provides a different type of insight from the normal college football podcast. That insight comes from a niche area, which is the coaching carousel. The coaching carousel means how the coaching staffs in college football circle around and around the country in a butterfly effect of firings.
Typically, the carousel starts in the middle of the season with an early firing (see: the USC Trojans) and will often conclude during the summer with some shocking ‘way too late’ change of a retiring coach (see: Bob Stoops at Oklahoma) or off-season scandal (see: Jim Tressel at Ohio State).