A Look Back at the 2015 Coaching Carousel

Out of some idle curiosity this morning, I took a look through the 2015 coaching carousel. There were 12 new P5 head coaches in that cycle. Of the other 11, Fuente outlasted 7:

  • Muschamp at USCe
  • Odom at Mizzou
  • Cubit at Illinois
  • Durkin at Maryland
  • Claeys at Minnesota
  • Helton at USCw
  • Richt at Miami

Hilariously, Fuente even outlasted one of the replacements of the above coaches, and is likely to be joined shortly by a second:

  • Lovie Smith at Illinois
  • Diaz at Miami

Of the four remaining coaches hired that season, one is somewhat on the hot seat:

  • Babers at Syracuse

Finally, of the 12 coaches hired during the 2015 carousel, only three have lived up to their relative expectations:

  • Smart at Georgia
  • Mendenhall at UVA 🤮
  • Campbell at Iowa State

... I don't know what to do with this information, other than to say that coaching searches are hard. I just thought it was interesting that so many names on the list had already come and gone, while we've been yelling about Fuente for over 3 years now.

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