(02-04-2021 02:18 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  OK, that concludes our football entertainment for the season. Gotta find someone new to run up the middle for a loss for next season.

Grad transfer?

Saw something today:
Former Auburn coach Gus Malzahn is UCF's first choice to replace Josh Heupel as the team's head football coach, sources told CBS Sports on Sunday night. Though sources close to the situation say Malzahn has not yet been formally offered the job, 247Sports' Jason Beede and the Orlando Sentinel report that an offer has been made.

(02-15-2021 09:44 AM)texowl2 Wrote:  Saw something today:
Former Auburn coach Gus Malzahn is UCF's first choice to replace Josh Heupel as the team's head football coach, sources told CBS Sports on Sunday night. Though sources close to the situation say Malzahn has not yet been formally offered the job, 247Sports' Jason Beede and the Orlando Sentinel report that an offer has been made.

yup:

Gus Malzahn Named UCF Head Football Coach

Quote:Gus Malzahn, who led Auburn to the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game following the 2013 season in the first of eight straight years his Tigers qualified for bowl games, has been named the ninth head football coach at UCF. UCF vice president and director of athletics Terry Mohajir made the announcement today.

In eight years as head football coach at Auburn, Malzahn also led the Tigers to a Southeastern Conference Championship, two SEC West Division titles and six New Year’s Day bowl selections among those eight postseason appearances. Malzahn, 77-38 in nine seasons overall as a head coach, has helped teams to seven conference championship game appearances in his 15 seasons as a collegiate coach, including winning a pair of SEC Championships at Auburn (2010, 2013) and a Sun Belt Championship at Arkansas State in 2012.

In the final Associated Press rankings his Auburn teams finished second (2013), 10th (2017), 22nd (2014) and 24th (2016).

“When I started the search process, it became very evident very quickly that, based on the conversations I had with the players last week and what they told me were looking for, Gus Malzahn was the guy for the job,” says Mohajir. “He has won at every level, and he has coached a Heisman Trophy winner and NFL draft picks. There has never been a better time for Coach Malzahn to lead this program than right now.”

“I’m thrilled to be the head coach at UCF, and I’m truly looking forward to being part of Knight Nation,” says Malzahn. “It’s exciting to be head of a program where the future is extremely bright. I will be hitting the ground running in terms of getting to know our team and everyone else connected with UCF. Our goal is to be ready to win championships.”

(01-07-2020 03:49 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(01-07-2020 10:17 AM)illiniowl Wrote:  Watching the start of the Sugar Bowl with other Rice alums, I joked that Matt Rhule might be pulling a Todd Graham at that moment.
Baylor's Matt Rhule headed to the NFL's Carolina Panthers

I thought Rhule was one of the brightest and best young coaches I have seen come through this area, and I was highly impressed with the work he did at Baylor. Probably the most impressive part was how he held things together during that awful first year.

I thought perhaps the best thing he did was to solidify his relationship with the THSCA right off the bat by hiring two long-time highly regarded Texas HS coaches in David Wetzel (president of THSCA) and Joey McGuire (very successful HC at Cedar Hill). In a recent poll of HS coaches by Texas Football, they rated Gary Patterson as the most trusted D-1 coach in the state and Rhule #2, which is pretty amazing considering Rhule's short term and lack of prior Texas connections. Obviously he understood the secret of success and knew exactly how to build it.

Now he moves to the NFL, where apparently he has always wanted to be. The draft replaces recruiting, and we shall see how well he adapts to a different paradigm for acquiring talent.

Well, NFL didn't work out, but perhaps Rhule can do better at Nebraska than Scott Frost ended up doing. I'm sure Frost will find another gig eventually. Nebraska really hasn't been the same since they moved to the B1G Ten years ago. Maybe Oklahoma will find the same happens to them when they move along with Texas to the SEC.