The era of the young sideline gunslinger – big points, pinball stats and bold play-calls – appears to finally be meeting some resistance.
For the second consecutive year, there’s a distinct lack of promising young play-callers being considered for head coaching jobs on the horizon. Mostly, it’s because that market has been thoroughly picked through.
Of the 17 jobs that opened last season, nine of the coaches hired had prior FBS head coaching experience – Steve Sarkisian, Butch Jones and Terry Bowden among them. Of the remaining eight jobs, four went to defensive assistants, three to offensive assistants and one to a coach who primarily made his name as a special teams coordinator (Shane Beamer).