By the end of the regular season, it looked like the Big Ten coaching carousel might not spin all that much.
Sure, Purdue had fired Darrell Hazell in midseason. But there weren't any other obvious head-coaching changes on the horizon, or so we thought. Just goes to show, you never say never in the coaching biz. Indiana surprised everybody by dumping Kevin Wilson a few days after the season and promoting defensive coordinator Tom Allen to head coach, while an off-field scandal and brief bowl boycott led Minnesota to fire Tracy Claeys despite a 9-4 campaign.
Three head coaching changes is pretty much par for the course these days.