Hearing strong Pete Carroll rumors. Kalen who?

you do realize washington lost to michigan, correct?

I thought I did, but apparently I invented a different outcome...lol

He's already vacated the national title in his mind.

I don't think DeBoer will work out, on further review. Signs already. Carroll would have been an awesome hire, though it couldn't be long term. Would have been last hurrah and a damn good one.

Washington is hiring Jedd Fisch from Arizona.

Arizona is now on the clock!

Apparently DeBoer was making a little over 4 million per at UW, and they offered to double it to keep him. His happiness quotient there by all accounts on a scale of 1-100 was about 120. What in the world is Bama paying him to tempt him to become yet another football mercenary? Guessing about 9 million?? I think he'll look back on the decision like, "What was I thinking?" I guess maybe if his game plan is about Nattys like he did at the other level, he made a good move. Bama isn't a lovey dovey place. Get ready for it.

Chargers met with Harbaugh already.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...rbaugh-vacancy

It’s obvious but if he wants an NFL gig he can have one.

let the harbaugh to dallas rumors start

any speculation regarding debore to bama should acknowledge the red tide didn't find out same time we did
that contract was being negotiated at least a week prior, if not more

Saban retired. Bama steals Washingtons coach. Washington steals Arizonas coach. Wonder where this finally ends and just how many programs lose a coach due to Saban retiring?

Fisch is a great hire for ewwdub only if he can bring Fifita with him

Washington's final offer was up to 9 million per season. I think it's likely that Bama's deal puts him in the 10 milly club. Norvell's extension brings him to 10 million also.

Here's a list of the highest paid coaches in American sports: Highest Paid Coaches

Some of those amounts are pretty crazy. Rhule at 9.3M and Heupel at 9M come to mind.

And so it kind of begs the question "If UW was 9 mill and Bama offered 9 mill and a dollar, it's time to pack the bags?" I guess that isn't fair really as if his goal is Natties and not just being a multi-millionaire and totally happy where he is. The changing conferences thing could factor in. I just relish the stories of guys who stay under the crazy premise: "My job right now is making me a multi-millionaire and I'm incredibly happy. That matters more than the rat race musical chairs chase." I think these are extreme versions of "the grass is always greener" trap. A few guys actually did it recently. "I'm happy right here. That kind of matters. I'm staying."

Wow Harbaugh must be the strangest duck. Teams drooling for him have a meet up, and their interest dries up. We've heard reports of this before. I claim ignorance about what makes Harbaugh tick, other than winning. He seems such an enigma for real. I, for one, do not doubt his extraordinary effect on a team since the 24-23 thing Stanford/USC. Impossible. He spearheaded that singlehandedly and absolutely believed he could do it. Then did it. Then acted weird in the aftermath. Then went for 2 a few years later trying to reach 50 against Carroll. He had a hard on for the guy, the biggest, biggest, biggest guy of all. And he took him down as a 40 point underdog and then routed him. Who does that? Then on to the 49ers where he tries to hard on Sherman on the fateful last play. Then on to Michigan where he flips the script against the Buckeyes and goes 15-0, doing a bunch of weird stuff in the process. He has some Steve Spurrier in him, just red neck hard ons and competitiveness, but without the spouting of it, instead camouflaging it under non-speak. Tinges of Belichick too in that respect. But I've seen no coach like him personality-wise. Larry Brown the basketball coach had a bit of this "you just cannot locate the guy and he is showing zero fire but firing his team to the stratosphere." Weird. I don't know if Harbaugh lays into his players, like say Bo, but what comes out to the media is a strange placidity. Underground hyper-competitiveness win at any cost, me against the world and the bigger my enemies the better. Something keeps trying to break through to me about him. Maybe politics is the place to go for guys of this twist. LBJ? Well, there are no unique personality types I don't think, but he's in a small sub-type.

Interesting

Good for them putting an honest effort in. Bless their hearts.

That's a hole big enough for a running back to go through.

give this a google search

Ken N is back. No more option though.

Harbaugh is leaving for the chargers.

I’m assuming UM announces Moore is the new coach tomorrow

I would be stunned if they didn't. The AD had to have seen the writing on the wall after 2022, that if Harbaugh achieved his goals at Michigan he was headed back to the NFL. Moore got a heckuva audition this past season.

I suppose maybe they have a list of other home run hires but honestly with Alabama snapping up DeBoer, I don't know who's on it that would be realistic. So they do the logical thing and promote Moore and keep as much continuity as they can.

Losing Minter is going to sting. Have to assume he goes with Harbaugh.

Isn't that kind of like hiring Ricky Gervais to host an awards show without jokes?

I was off by a day but Michigan is hiring Moore. To the surprise of no one. He had already done enough to earn the job.

why not officially hire the assistant coach who won half your games last season
leadership at a discount
while we're at it, only seems right for jim to return the salary he earned wearing a pageant sash titled 'little miss appropriation'