It was a relatively calm off-season for the Big Ten on the coaching carousel portion until the Northwestern situation exploded in the summer resulting in the termination of long-time head coach and former player, Pat Fitzgerald.
Only three schools made changes to their head coach. The Wisconsin Badgers fired Paul Chryst (which in my opinion was a bit too soon), the Nebraska Cornhuskers, who canned Scott Frost (which took too long), and the Purdue Boilermakers who lost Jeff Brohm to the Louisville Cardinals.
