Another day on the Coaching Carousel

Jan 10

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.