Coach Roth: Football: Drills and Coaching

I think that this season showed clearly how sick this whole voting system is:

• the #1 ranked teams are an astounding low 9-5 over the season (with LSU being responsible for 2 of the losses)
• the #2 ranked teams are even 3-7 over the last 10 weeks (including the BCS Championship Bowl).

And as I said before:

None of the teams (LSU and OSU) deserved it more than a lot of other teams to play the “Championship” Bowl!

Why?

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Now Arthur Blank goes again back into the college ranks to find a head coach for his Atlanta Falcons by trying to lure Pete Carroll away from USC. At first glance it looks as if he’s falling again for hiring a college coach for a NFL job, but if you look closer you see that Pete Carroll has quite some NFL experience under his belt, just his head coaching stints weren’t very lucky, fired by the Jets after just 1 year (starting 6-2 but finishing 6-10), then 3 seasons as the Patriots HC with poorer outcome from year to year resulting in getting fired after the third… but sources around Carroll tell that Blank’s efforts will be in vain anyway…

Art Valero, RB coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is rumored to join the St. Louis Rams as their new OL coach, reports the St. Petersburg Post in it’s Bucs Beat Blog, it is further reported that the Buccaneers current OL coach Bill Muir might go to Miami, since he’s another old times companion of Bill Parcells, and are interested to hire the recently fired Nebraska head coach Bill Callahan… (enough “Bills” for me )

Gary Fitzgerald has a closer look at the potential candidates for the Washington Redskins new head coach on redskins.com

With Bill Cowher, the former Steelers head coach and currently a TV analyst, another rumored head coach candidate takes himself out of consideration: ‘ “I don’t have any plans to coach in 2008,” Cowher said.’ reports Jamison Hensley, a Baltimore Sun reporter.

Another untimely speculation arose about Tony Dungy might be leaving football after this season despite having 2 more years on his coaching contract with the Indianapolis Colts…

… and last not least:

Another look at the coaching carousel takes the IQFB-Blog, by looking on who in the past took a full spin on it, that is coaching again at a former team, just like Joe Gibbs, who recently resigned for a second time into retirement from the Washington Redsinks.

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Another exiting day on the Coaching Carousel:

After the retirement of head Strength and Conditioning coach Johnny Parker, the 49ers promoted his assistant Duane Carlisle to take over the job.

But let’s start when I left with my last post:

Shortly after I published my last blog, the 49ers announced Mike Martz as their new OC. Read here 49ers HC Mike Nolan’s statement about hiring Mike Martz as the new OC without interviewing all the other candidates on his list in person, even though Martz admits that in the long run he wants to be a NFL head coach again.

The Baltimore Ravens interviewed Tuesday another candidate: John Harbaugh, secondary coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, but remain otherwise silent about their HC search… but Stephen from Ravens Touchdown has a nice article about who has been already interviewed for the Ravens new head coaching job and who is scheduled or rumored to be scheduled to be interviewed - this is actually the first time that a coach currently coaching in the college ranks is at least to be rumored about… The Steve Spurrier (Washington, 2 seasons: 7-9, 5-11), Nick Saban (Miami, 2 seasons: 9-7, 6-10) and this season’s Bobby Petrino (Atlanta, left after 13 games into his first season with a record of 3-10) failed experiments seem to be worse enough to have the teams shy away from thinking about hiring a current college coach as a NFL head coach.

The Dolphins confirmed inviewing former Ravens DC Rex Ryan.

Another OL coaching job got open as Jim McNally of the Buffalo Bills retires after a 43 year long career (15 years at the college level and an astounding 28 years in the NFL)… he also suggests to let his assistant Sean Kugler to succeed him as the head OL coach.

The Chicago Bears loose linebacker coach Hardy Nickerson, who surprisingly resigned after only one year with the Bears, which seems to be totally privately motivated, since the Bears Linebackers were prospering under his reign.

While the Cleveland Browns work on keeping the current successful coaching staff together: After signing Rob Chudzinski to a two year extension, they also try to work out an extension with Romeo Crennel, who still has 2 years on his current contract.

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