Who then?

[walksalone]

Paul Rhoads.

 

I think a guy like that could clean up with more talent on a team.

 

[RedRedJarvisRedwine]

I'll ask this again cause I didn't get a response last time. Does Tom Rathman have HCing aspirations?

[GSG]

I'll ask this again cause I didn't get a response last time. Does Tom Rathman have HCing aspirations?

 

My guess would be no since he's been a running backs coach everywhere he has gone. Wouldn't he have gotten a shot at a coordinator job by now?

 

He's been an NFL running backs coach since 1997

 

His only other coaching jobs have been one year as a high school running backs coach and one year as the O-coordinator for a school I've never heard of, Menlo College in Atherton, CA

[Count 'Bility]

I forgot this week's edition of "Flavor of the week".

 

This week I'm gonna have to go back with Pat Narduzzi. I know Michigan has been overrated, but what that Michigan St D did to them is nothing short of remarkable.

[ADS]

I'll just leave this here for you guys, he's a MSU beat writer:

 

Hondo Carpenter ‏@HondoCarpenter

I will not be shocked AT ALL if @JimTressel5 is the head coach at Nebraska next year

[StPaulHusker]

I'll just leave this here for you guys, he's a MSU beat writer:

 

Hondo Carpenter ‏@HondoCarpenter

I will not be shocked AT ALL if @JimTressel5 is the head coach at Nebraska next year

I will believe anything written by someone named Hondo.

[QMany]

I'll just leave this here for you guys, he's a MSU beat writer:

 

Hondo Carpenter ‏@HondoCarpenter

I will not be shocked AT ALL if @JimTressel5 is the head coach at Nebraska next year

Doesn't he have a show-cause until 2016?

 

Oh look, a beat writer got people talking about himself. Mission Accomplished.

[StPaulHusker]

From Stewart Mandels mailbag on SI.com:

 

Stewart, there are three BCS championship-winning coaches currently on the market. What are the odds any team would take a chance on Jim Tressel, Phillip Fulmer or Gene Chizik? Is Fulmer's age more of a factor than Tressel's involvement in a scandal? Was Chizik ever a good coach in the first place?

-- George, Montgomery, Ala.

 

Of the three, Fulmer seems the least likely to return. He's now 63, five years removed from coaching and hasn't garnered serious attention from a school since Louisville's search three years ago. (It's believed that Arkansas discussed its emergency opening with him following Bobby Petrino's ouster, but there was no guarantee of a long-term position.) Chizik, 51, is more plausible because he has a lot of years ahead of him and remains so close to the sport, but I have to imagine Auburn's marked turnaround as soon as he left has not helped his stock. Maybe he could get a Sun Belt-type job or return to being a high-level defensive coordinator. It would help if an AD listens to Sirius XM, because Chizik comes off as very knowledgeable on the air. (And full of personality -- who knew?)

 

Still, much like my 90 percent hedge earlier in this column on an undefeated team losing, I'll put similar odds on Tressel eventually returning to coaching. I just don't know if it will be next year. At this point, time has provided some distance since TattooGate, and Tressel has made some inroads restoring his reputation through his work at Akron. And he was one of the best coaches in the sport at the time he left.

 

The problem, however, is his NCAA show-cause order remains in effect through 2016, and that penalty requires him to sit out the first five games and any postseason games of his first year back. That's a difficult way to kick off a new tenure. A school may be willing to endure that in exchange for the long-term glory Tressel could bring to a program, but I doubt that school would be, say, Nebraska. But what about Miami (Ohio), which just so happens to have an opening? Think that might be worth it (especially since the RedHawks, currently 0-9, aren't likely to go bowling next year)?

 

 

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20131106/poll-voting-behavior-college-football-mailbag/#ixzz2ju494rot

 

 

[GSG]

Is the Vest's penalty that he sits out the postseason or the team sits out the postseason?

[StPaulHusker]

Is the Vest's penalty that he sits out the postseason or the team sits out the postseason?

 

Just him, I believe

[TonyStalloni]

I'm pretty sure only Tressel has to vacate the game. No penalty for the team.

[suigeneris]

Tressel has to sit out the first five weeks of the season (including practices), plus the first bowl game (and the CCG if his squad made it). The school that hires him would have to send in some paperwork twice a year to the NCAA. That's about it. The first five regular season games and the bowl count like any other and Tressel could be out recruiting while he's supposed to be sitting in his time-out chair. SI

[Count 'Bility]

It's only fair at this point that Scott Frost be removed from the flavor-of-the-week club. That was a pitiful offensive performance against a perceived slow and sluggish Stanford defense last night and falls in line with the keejerk reactions that we should not want a man like that running our program. We deserve better, hence I'm inducting the entire Stanford staff from OC, DC, all the way down to the scoreboard operator as head coach candidates.

[B.B. Hemingway]

Art Briles, or David Shaw....

[RedRedJarvisRedwine]

I move to have this thread renamed to "Flavor of the week"