2021 NCAA Football Coaching Carousel

We are still in the midst of Week 1, but the hits have started, as UCONN has announced the immediate parting of ways with Randy Edsall, instead of him finishing at the end of the year.

As more coaches get fired, I'll try to update this, but in the meantime, feel free to comment and update when you hear of a change.

1. UCONN - Randy Edsall // Jim Mora
2. Kansas - Les Miles
3. USC - Clay Helton // Lincoln Riley
4. LSU - Ed Orgeron
5. Georgia Southern - Chad Lunsford // Clay Helton
6. Washington State - Nick Rolovich
7. Texas Tech - Matt Wells // Joey McGuire
8. TCU - Gary Patterson // Sonny Dykes
9. Washington - Jimmy Lake
10. FIU - Butch Davis
11. VT - Justin Fuente
12. Florida - Dan Mullen // Billy Napier
13. UMASS - Walt Bell // Don Brown
14. New Mexico State - Doug Martin // Jerry Kill
15. SMU - Sonny Dykes // Rhett Lashlee
16. Akron - Tom Arth
17. Troy - Chip Lindsay
18. Louisiana - Billy Napier
19. Duke - David Cutcliffe
20. Oklahoma - Lincoln Riley

DISCLAIMER: Forum topics may not have been written or edited by The Key Play staff.

Comments

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

21st century QBs Undefeated vs UVA:
MV7, MV5, LT3, Grant Wells, Braxton Burmeister, Ryan Willis, Josh Jackson, Jerod Evans, Michael Brewer, Tyrod Taylor, Sean Glennon, and Grant Noel. That's right, UVA. You couldn't beat Grant Noel.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

21st century QBs Undefeated vs UVA:
MV7, MV5, LT3, Grant Wells, Braxton Burmeister, Ryan Willis, Josh Jackson, Jerod Evans, Michael Brewer, Tyrod Taylor, Sean Glennon, and Grant Noel. That's right, UVA. You couldn't beat Grant Noel.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
@VTnerf on insta, @BuryHokie on twitter, #ThanksFrank

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Give me a fuยขking beer", Anonymous Genius

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Amateur superstar and idiot extraordinaire.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Amateur superstar and idiot extraordinaire.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Amateur superstar and idiot extraordinaire.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Five star get after it 100 percent Juice Key-Playing. MAN

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Marshall University graduate.
Virginia Tech fanatic.
Formerly known as JWillHokieAlum.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Another white bronco? The first one didn't go too far.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

A decade on TKP and it's been time well spent.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Give me a fuยขking beer", Anonymous Genius

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Maroon helmet with orange gobbler logo is the best helmet.....change my mind.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

A decade on TKP and it's been time well spent.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

We Are The Virginia Tech Hokies...And We Play Football!

*Adibi's Army
**Chicken Hill Social Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

I am the heartbeat of Blacksburg. A fortress built out of stone but made with champions.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

โญโญโญโญโญโญ #YNWA

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

21st century QBs Undefeated vs UVA:
MV7, MV5, LT3, Grant Wells, Braxton Burmeister, Ryan Willis, Josh Jackson, Jerod Evans, Michael Brewer, Tyrod Taylor, Sean Glennon, and Grant Noel. That's right, UVA. You couldn't beat Grant Noel.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Here we go, the final play of the game. ITโ€™S INTERCEPTED! ITโ€™S INTERCEPTED BY BANKS! HEโ€™S RUNNING IT ALL THE WAY DOWN THE SIDELINE! THE GAMECLOCK WINDS OUT! ANTONIO BANKS TAKES IT IN!
https://youtu.be/LgEAr3XFrcI

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

I found TKP after two rails from TOTS then walking back to my apartment and re-watching the 2012 Sugar Bowl. I woke up the next day with this username.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

VTCC '86 Delta Company, Hokie in Peru, Former Naval Aviator, Former FBISA, Forever married to my VT87 girl. Go VT!

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

21st century QBs Undefeated vs UVA:
MV7, MV5, LT3, Grant Wells, Braxton Burmeister, Ryan Willis, Josh Jackson, Jerod Evans, Michael Brewer, Tyrod Taylor, Sean Glennon, and Grant Noel. That's right, UVA. You couldn't beat Grant Noel.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Give me a fuยขking beer", Anonymous Genius

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Another white bronco? The first one didn't go too far.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

21st century QBs Undefeated vs UVA:
MV7, MV5, LT3, Grant Wells, Braxton Burmeister, Ryan Willis, Josh Jackson, Jerod Evans, Michael Brewer, Tyrod Taylor, Sean Glennon, and Grant Noel. That's right, UVA. You couldn't beat Grant Noel.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

TKPhi Damn Proud
BSME 2009

This sub-thread was locked by a moderator.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Give me a fuยขking beer", Anonymous Genius

This sub-thread was locked by a moderator.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

This sub-thread was locked by a moderator.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

This sub-thread was locked by a moderator.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

This sub-thread was locked by a moderator.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Give me a fuยขking beer", Anonymous Genius

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

We put the K in Kwality

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Maroon helmet with orange gobbler logo is the best helmet.....change my mind.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

I'm here for the memes, I just stay for the football.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

My wife takes the kids and leaves the house while I watch my Hokie games.........nuff said

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

VTCC '86 Delta Company, Hokie in Peru, Former Naval Aviator, Former FBISA, Forever married to my VT87 girl. Go VT!

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

This is my school
This is home

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

We put the K in Kwality

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.โ€ -Einstein

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.โ€ -Einstein

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Pain is Temporary, Chicks Dig Scars
Glory is Forever, Let's Go Hokies!!

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

'89 Hokie alum, former staff, former faculty. Living in Jawja - a rescue Dawg married to a Fauxkie. Navigating the curious spaces between the ACC and the SEC since 2009.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

'89 Hokie alum, former staff, former faculty. Living in Jawja - a rescue Dawg married to a Fauxkie. Navigating the curious spaces between the ACC and the SEC since 2009.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

'89 Hokie alum, former staff, former faculty. Living in Jawja - a rescue Dawg married to a Fauxkie. Navigating the curious spaces between the ACC and the SEC since 2009.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

'89 Hokie alum, former staff, former faculty. Living in Jawja - a rescue Dawg married to a Fauxkie. Navigating the curious spaces between the ACC and the SEC since 2009.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

VT '10--US Citizen; (804) Virginian By Birth; (210) Texan By the Grace of God.

Rick Monday... You Made a Great Play...

I also root for: The Keydets, Army, TexAggies, NY Giants, NY Rangers, ATL Braves, and SA Brahmas

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Give me a fuยขking beer", Anonymous Genius

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Now finish up them taters; I'm gonna go fondle my sweaters.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

VT '10--US Citizen; (804) Virginian By Birth; (210) Texan By the Grace of God.

Rick Monday... You Made a Great Play...

I also root for: The Keydets, Army, TexAggies, NY Giants, NY Rangers, ATL Braves, and SA Brahmas

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Vick, dashing back . . . here he comes again . . . Electrifying . . . and have you ever seen anything like this?"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Nope, launch him into the sun and fart on him on the way up"
-gobble gobble chumps

"11-0, bro"
-Hunter Carpenter (probably)

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Vick, dashing back . . . here he comes again . . . Electrifying . . . and have you ever seen anything like this?"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Hokie Club member since 2017, TriumphNIL subscriber since 2023

Football school, Womenโ€™s basketball school

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Vick, dashing back . . . here he comes again . . . Electrifying . . . and have you ever seen anything like this?"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Vick, dashing back . . . here he comes again . . . Electrifying . . . and have you ever seen anything like this?"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

I am the heartbeat of Blacksburg. A fortress built out of stone but made with champions.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

VTCC '86 Delta Company, Hokie in Peru, Former Naval Aviator, Former FBISA, Forever married to my VT87 girl. Go VT!

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Hokie fan | W&M grad

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

You will see this game, this upset and this sign next on ESPN Sportscenter. Virginia Tech 31 Miami 7

His decision was made after a phone call with longtime Virginia Tech assistant coach Bud Foster. All Foster told him was, "We win. They don't."

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

We put the K in Kwality

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Vick, dashing back . . . here he comes again . . . Electrifying . . . and have you ever seen anything like this?"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"The Big Ten is always using excuses to cancel games with us. First Wisconsin. Then Wisconsin. After that, Wisconsin. The subsequent cancellation with Wisconsin comes to mind too. Now Penn State. What's next? Wisconsin?" -HorseOnATreadmill

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

VT '10--US Citizen; (804) Virginian By Birth; (210) Texan By the Grace of God.

Rick Monday... You Made a Great Play...

I also root for: The Keydets, Army, TexAggies, NY Giants, NY Rangers, ATL Braves, and SA Brahmas

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Vick, dashing back . . . here he comes again . . . Electrifying . . . and have you ever seen anything like this?"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Vick, dashing back . . . here he comes again . . . Electrifying . . . and have you ever seen anything like this?"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"That move was slicker than a peeled onion in a bowl of snot." -Mike Burnop

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

If you can't handle my shit posts, you don't deserve my memes

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Give me a fuยขking beer", Anonymous Genius

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Outside it's night time, but inside it's LeDay

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Another white bronco? The first one didn't go too far.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Another white bronco? The first one didn't go too far.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken" - Colonel Sanders via Ricky Bobby

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Directions from Blacksburg to whoville, go north till you smell it then go east until you step in it

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

You will see this game, this upset and this sign next on ESPN Sportscenter. Virginia Tech 31 Miami 7

His decision was made after a phone call with longtime Virginia Tech assistant coach Bud Foster. All Foster told him was, "We win. They don't."

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

If you feel the leather in your hand let it rip.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Recovering scientist working in business consulting

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Yes,that's the Hokie Bird riding a camel. Why'd you ask?

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Yes,that's the Hokie Bird riding a camel. Why'd you ask?

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Runs up the hill! Into the Tech student section! Here in Charlottesville!"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

This is my school
This is home

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"That move was slicker than a peeled onion in a bowl of snot." -Mike Burnop

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Amateur superstar and idiot extraordinaire.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Amateur superstar and idiot extraordinaire.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

This is my school
This is home

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

This is my school
This is home

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Reach for Excellence!

VT Football: It'll get after ya!

Proud Hokie since 2004.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

This is my school
This is home

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

This is my school
This is home

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
โ€œI served in the United States Navy"

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

If you feel the leather in your hand let it rip.

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Never Forget #1 Overall Seed UVA 54, #64 UMBC 74

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

Wet stuff on the red stuff.

Join us in the Key Players Club

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.

"Why gobble gobble chumps asks such good questions, I will never know." - TheFifthFuller

Please join The Key Players Club to read or post comments.