Host emeritus Steven Godfrey is back to join Richard for a whip-around of the most interesting coordinator moves (and non-moves) from the 2026 coaching carousel. There’s a lot to cover here, including but not limited to:

* 1:04: Miami’s key retentions

* 3:13: Palace intrigue at Auburn

* 4:45: Clemson pushes the Chad Morris button

* 8:50: Texas says hi again to Will Muschamp

* 11:31: Kansas does the same with Andy Kotelnicki

* 12:45: Tennessee’s possibly great but definitely kind of awkward Jim Knowles hire, after he flopped at Penn State

* 16:45: Chip Kelly’s post-Eagles career remains bizarre

* 19:49: Bobby Petrino and Bill Belichick

* 23:05: Ole Miss’ new world

* 27:48: Gary Patterson and USC

* 29:02: Deion’s shrinking runway in Boulder

* 30:22: TCU’s identity shift

* 31:22: Mike Norvell, play-caller

* 31:45: Michigan’s Utah era

* 32:31: Ohio State’s NFL OC hire

* 33:00: Oregon replacing not one but two coordinators

* 34:50: Buster Faulkner (with the GT offense?) heads to Gainesville

Producer: Anthony Vito

Matt Brown joins Richard and Alex for the latest SZD/Extra Points Sports Business Hour. In this episode, the group talks about how the job of an athletic director has changed in the past handful of years:

* The worst athletic director Matt has ever seen

* What used to be the key markers of a good AD?

* How have those traits changed in the 2020s?

* News story reactions: Oliver Luck gets yet another college sports job, and Mississippi is poised to give tax breaks to athletes on NIL deals

Thanks to Matt! You can read him all the time at Extra Points.

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Producer: Anthony Vito

In this subscriber episode, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex revisit 28 head coach transitions before the 2012 college football season. This was one of the most consequential coach carousels of the 21st century, with lots of very good, lots of very bad, plenty in the middle, and also the John L. Smith situation:

THE GOOD

* 9:29: Urban Meyer to Ohio State

* 16:05: Mike Leach to Washington State

* 22:39: Bill O’Brien to Penn State

* 31:34: Justin Fuente to Memphis

* 34:28: Matt Campbell to Toledo

* 35:31: Jim McElwain to Colorado State

* 36:55: Gus Malzahn to Arkansas State

* 39:28: Terry Bowden to Akron

THE WHATEVER

* 41:36: Jim Mora Jr. to UCLA

* 46:54: Todd Graham to Arizona State

* 50:28: Paul Chryst to Pitt

* 51:10: Larry Fedora to North Carolina

* 53:42: Kyle Flood to Rutgers

* 55:45: Bob Davie to New Mexico

* 56:46: Tim DeRuyter to Fresno State

THE UGLY

* 58:05: Tim Beckman to Illinois

* 59:00: Tony Levine to Houston

* 1:00:59: Curtis Johnson to Tulane

* 1:01:59: Norm Chow to Hawaii

* 1:05:54: Charley Molnar to UMass

* 1:06:21: Garrick McGee to UAB

* 1:13:08: Carl Pelini to FAU

* 1:17:05: Ellis Johnson to Southern Miss

* 1:19:25: Charlie Weis to Kansas

* 1:28:00: John L. Smith to Arkansas

THE DEBATABLE

* 1:20:48: Kevin Sumlin to Texas A&M

* 1:21:36: Hugh Freeze to Ole Miss

* 1:25:02: Rich Rodriguez to Arizona

Produced by Anthony Vito.

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