Written by Matt Zemek at Bloguin
“It’s not a spaceship. It’s a time machine.”
Don Draper’s description of “The Carousel” (not the wheel) in the Mad Men season one finale is not just the heart of one of the great moments and speeches in the history of television. It is an accurate depiction of how the college football coaching carousel will enable us to view a lot of different football lifers in five years.
The Carousel, Draper reminds us, goes backwards and forwards. It takes coaches to where they ache to go… knowing that only some of them will succeed.
Tracy Claeys has found safe harbor at Minnesota — that’s one vacancy filled in a permanent capacity. Yet, with Gary Pinkel stepping down at Missouri and Todd Berry out at Louisiana-Monroe, the Carousel began to spin faster over the past 100 hours. With more vacancies sure to come (Rutgers and Virginia most likely, with Syracuse as a possibility), the number of open jobs will approach 15. If a few surprise firings or resignations occur, the number could exceed 15.
What’s more is that of all the jobs that are open in this cycle, so many of them are genuinely intriguing to people who follow the sport. We’ve written about the comparative merits of the UCF and Miami jobs in the state of Florida. It’s a real debate as to which job is the better one at the present moment.
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