2023-24 Coaching Change Thread

[Mvemjsunpx]

Northwestern State's tragic and controversial early end to their 2023 season gave them a head start on making a new hire. Blaine McCorkle spent 6 seasons as the head coach at DIII Belhaven after holding several assistant jobs (mostly OL coach) at various FCS schools. His record was only 31-25 overall with the Blazers, but it was 27-9 over the last 4 years.

https://nsudemons.com/news/2023/11/28/d ... coach.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

Dan Hawkins decided to call it quits as a head coach so he spend more time with his family. Hawkins, an Aggie alum, will apparently fill some sort of assistant job in the UCD athletic department. Hawkins finishes his Davis tenure 44-31 overall with 1 Big Sky title (2016), 2 playoff appearances (2016, 2021), and 1 playoff win (2016). He (probably) concludes his overall head-coaching career with a record of 156-92-1.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/11/ ... coach.aspx

[uofmman1122]

Hard-Luck Hue Jackson has been fired from yet another head-coaching job as he's now out in Grambling. He went 8-14 in 2 seasons with the Tigers with an 0-2 record in the Bayou Classic. In all seasons as a head coach at all levels, Jackson has a record of 19-58-1. His only non-losing season was when he went 8-8 with the Oakland Raiders in his only year there in 2011.

https://gsutigers.com/news/2023/11/28/g ... ogram.aspx

I remember other Niners fans back in 2016 saying we really messed up hiring Chip Kelly instead of him.

[kalm]

Beau Baldwin is out at ASU. Might have FCS implications. Either his replacement and/or where he lands.

[UNI88]

Not a coaching change but could be huge for UNI ...

UNI names former Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby as Interim Athletic Director

“Very few opportunities could have lured me out of retirement, even on a short-term basis,” Bowlsby indicated. “Plenty of people have contacted me, but when President Nook called I certainly listened intently. The invitation to help set up the next Director of Athletics at UNI for success was an opportunity that I simply couldn’t refuse. UNI gave me such a remarkable opportunity as a young professional in collegiate athletics for which I’m eternally grateful. So much of what I learned at UNI helped guide my decisions throughout my career journey. I owe a great deal to UNI, and it is my distinct pleasure to serve in this interim role until the position can be filled on a full-time basis.”

Hope has returned to Panther Nation.

[kalm]

Not a coaching change but could be huge for UNI ...

UNI names former Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby as Interim Athletic Director

“Very few opportunities could have lured me out of retirement, even on a short-term basis,” Bowlsby indicated. “Plenty of people have contacted me, but when President Nook called I certainly listened intently. The invitation to help set up the next Director of Athletics at UNI for success was an opportunity that I simply couldn’t refuse. UNI gave me such a remarkable opportunity as a young professional in collegiate athletics for which I’m eternally grateful. So much of what I learned at UNI helped guide my decisions throughout my career journey. I owe a great deal to UNI, and it is my distinct pleasure to serve in this interim role until the position can be filled on a full-time basis.”

Hope has returned to Panther Nation.

Reading Clenz on Twitter and you on here continues make me think EWU and UNI are long lost twins.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Parady, the longest tenured head coach in DI, retired after 32 years (31 seasons) with the Red Foxes. Despite coaching the same school for 32 years, he technically hasn't reached retirement age yet (he's 62). His final record with the non-conference school was 155-171-1 with 4 conference titles (3 MAAC, 1 Pioneer).

https://goredfoxes.com/news/2023/11/29/ ... ement.aspx

[dal4018]

Changes

Columbia - Al Bagnoli --------> Mark Fabish -------->
Cornell - David Archer -------->
East Tennessee St. - George Quarles --------> Tre Lamb
Dartmouth - Buddy Teevens --------> Sammy McCorkle --------> Sammy McCorkle
Gardner-Webb - Tre Lamb -------->
Grambling - Hue Jackson -------->
Marist - Jim Parady -------->
Morehead St. - Rob Tenyer -------->
Northern Arizona - Chris Ball -------->
Northwestern St. - Brad Laird --------> Blaine McCorkle
SC State - Buddy Pough -------->
Southern - Eric Dooley --------> Terence Graves/Sean Wallace -------->
Stony Brook - Chuck Priore -------->
Tennessee Tech - Dewayne Alexander -------->
Texas Southern - Clarence McKinney -------->
UC Davis - Dan Hawkins -------->
Utah Tech - Paul Peterson -------->
Western Illinois - Myers Hendrickson -------->






Italic - denotes interim coach (offseason-only interims won't be included)

Ex-Houston Texans WR Andre Johnson has stated that he would be interested in the HC JOB for Texas Southern.

[dal4018]

Hard-Luck Hue Jackson has been fired from yet another head-coaching job as he's now out in Grambling. He went 8-14 in 2 seasons with the Tigers with an 0-2 record in the Bayou Classic. In all seasons as a head coach at all levels, Jackson has a record of 19-58-1. His only non-losing season was when he went 8-8 with the Oakland Raiders in his only year there in 2011.

https://gsutigers.com/news/2023/11/28/g ... ogram.aspx

I remember other Niners fans back in 2016 saying we really messed up hiring Chip Kelly instead of him.

Someone from North Carolina A&T has stated that the Aggies should call him up immediately for the job of OC after they terminated the former OC.

[dal4018]

SC State's Oliver "Buddy" Pough will retire at the end of the season. Thus far, he is 146-87 in 21 seasons with the Bulldogs. Pough's run consists of 7 MEAC titles, 4 playoff appearances, and 1 Celebration Bowl berth & victory.

https://www.scsuathletics.com/news/2023 ... eason.aspx

There is a guy who is being looked at by SCSU as the successor Chenis Berry who once coached in the MEAC at MEAC RIVAL Howard University and he has a more offensive mind as opposed to Pough my personal choice would have been Quinn Gray from Albany St (D2) he was a product of the pass happy Rattlers of Florida A&M in the late '90s-'00s.Berry is currently coaching at D2 power Benedict College who is a participant in the D2 playoffs.Gray was a product of the Gulf Coast Offense created by ex-Rattler HC Billie Joe Benedict College is going to meet up with Lenore-Rhyne in the second round of the D2 playoffs.

[Mvemjsunpx]

The Aggies went with former Davis offensive coordinator Tim Plough, who was an assistant at Cal this past season. Plough was the OC for the first few Dan Hawkins seasons in Davis.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/12/ ... coach.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

Brian Wright, the head coach at DII Pittsburg State, became Northern Arizona's head coach this week. Wright has a career record of 37-8: 33-8 with the Gorillas, and 4-0 as the interim coach of FAU in 2013. His only connection to the Big Sky was his serving as Montana State's OC for 2 years in the middle of the Rob Ash era.

https://nauathletics.com/news/2023/12/3 ... coach.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

Columbia chose not to retain interim coach Mark Fabish and instead will go with DIII Union (NY) head coach Jon Poppe. Poppe went 10-2 with the Chargers this season, his only-ever season as a head coach. He was also the DBs coach at Columbia from 2015-17.

https://gocolumbialions.com/news/2023/1 ... coach.aspx

[dbackjon]

NAU hires Pittsburg St HC Brian Wright

https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau ... e9705.html

[uofmman1122]

The Aggies went with former Davis offensive coordinator Tim Plough, who was an assistant at Cal this past season. Plough was the OC for the first few Dan Hawkins seasons in Davis.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2023/12/ ... coach.aspx

That's a great hire.

[Mvemjsunpx]

The Golden Eagles have gone with former Old Dominion head coach Bobby Wilder. Wilder, who was ODU's first head coach after they revived football in the late 2000s, went 77-56 in 11 seasons with the Monarchs. More impressively, his record was 46-14 in 5 seasons at the FCS level (2 playoff appearances) before his team moved up to FBS. Wilder's team also won 10 games including the Bahamas Bowl in 2016. He hasn't coached since being fired from ODU after the 2019 season, however.

https://www.ttusports.com/sports/fball/ ... 1203wrnc6p

[Mvemjsunpx]

Walden, who went 26-14 in 4 seasons in Clarksville, was hired away by UTEP. The Governors won the first-ever UAC title this past season and made the playoffs for the second time ever.

https://letsgopeay.com/news/2023/12/4/a ... coach.aspx

[BDKJMU]

Holy Cross’s Chesney hired by JMU.
https://www.wavy.com/sports/local-sport ... ead-coach/

[Mvemjsunpx]

As dal mentioned in another thread, South Carolina State chose DII Benedict head coach Chennis Berry to be their next football leader following Buddy Pough's retirement. Berry went 27-7 in 3 seasons with the Tigers, and went 22-2 over the last 2 years (they got a #1 seed both years, but got upset in the second round both times).

https://www.scsuathletics.com/news/2023 ... etics.aspx

[Gil Dobie]

Entz to USC, linebackers coach.

[Mvemjsunpx]

The Big Red elected to poach a conference foe by choosing Penn offensive coordinator Dan Swanstrom as their next head coach. Swanstrom was the OC for the Quakers for 2 years. Prior to that, he went 32-11 in four seasons (not counting '20-21) at DIII Ithaca, so he should be quite familiar with Cornell's home turf.

https://cornellbigred.com/news/2023/12/ ... m-era.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

The Blazers have hired longtime college assistant Lance Anderson as their next head man. Anderson was an assistant under Jim Harbaugh at San Diego, went with Harbaugh to Stanford, and stayed at Stanford until he was canned along with David Shaw's whole staff last year. He spent last season as a senior analyst at Boise State.

https://utahtechtrailblazers.com/news/2 ... coach.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

The Governors will replace Scotty Walden with Jeff Faris. Faris spent 10 seasons as an assistant at Duke before joining UCLA's staff a couple years ago.

https://letsgopeay.com/news/2023/12/9/f ... coach.aspx

[Mvemjsunpx]

Entz to USC, linebackers coach.

Yep. Nobody seems to be happier than Bison fans about this.

[dal4018]

Hard-Luck Hue Jackson has been fired from yet another head-coaching job as he's now out in Grambling. He went 8-14 in 2 seasons with the Tigers with an 0-2 record in the Bayou Classic. In all seasons as a head coach at all levels, Jackson has a record of 19-58-1. His only non-losing season was when he went 8-8 with the Oakland Raiders in his only year there in 2011.

https://gsutigers.com/news/2023/11/28/g ... ogram.aspx

I remember other Niners fans back in 2016 saying we really messed up hiring Chip Kelly instead of him.

Kelly ruined the Eagles he had Michael Vick and he got rid of him he had the perfect QB for his scheme to run.