In what will go down as a historic coaching carousel in college football, there has been a dominant theme the past few weeks.
Namely, that athletic directors are all in on finding those with prior head coaching experience. Setting aside the unique circumstances that led to Pete Golding taking over at Mississippi, nine of the 11 hires made so far were current or recent head coaches. In one of the two exceptions, the general manager at Stanford (Andrew Luck) opted to hand the program over to a former assistant coach and alum who also happened to be his former teammate (Tavita Pritchard).
