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The Five CUSA Teams Most Likely To Have A New Head Coach in 2016

By Jeremy Adcock

@cfoutpost on Nov 4, 2015, 3:00p +
Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

With ten head coaching jobs open on the FBS level already, it would not be a huge surprise if one or two were filled by CUSA coaches. There will also be situations with a CUSA program going in a different route and bringing in a new coach for 2016.

This season has brought forth the biggest divide of the haves and have nots in Conference USA since the addition of several Sun Belt teams. There is a huge gap between the top teams like Western Kentucky, Marshall, and Louisiana Tech versus the bottom of the conference.

There are 13 football programs in Conference USA. At least one of those programs, possibly many, will have new head coaches for the 2016 season. Some will have changes due to massive failure, while others will have to make a change due to massive success.

Let's take a look at the five teams that are mostly likely to make a change, whether from success or failure.

North Texas: This is the only guaranteed change as they have already fired their head coach. Interim head coach Mike Canales should, but probably wont, get a fair shot at getting his interim label removed. If they do not go with Canales, it will be interesting to see what direction those in charge of the Mean Green go. I would expect a young coordinator or a FCS coach looking to make a splash at the FBS level.

Western Kentucky: While I am not saying he will take a new job, Jeff Brohm's stock will be very high if the Hilltoppers finish the season strong. His name has already been mentioned with several different openings, and some team will try to poach him from WKU. Brohm seems very happy with WKU, but it is hard to turn down a possible dream job. Expect to hear his name with nearly every job opening.

Marshall: Doc Holliday is a little older than what power five programs normally like to hire, but he is an excellent head coach that has Marshall in the running for a conference title on a yearly basis. He is on pace for his third straight 10+ win season with the Thundering Herd. Holliday is extremely happy at Marshall and would not leave unless the perfect job came open. I think there will be many suitors, but Holliday will be at Marshall in 2016.

Florida International: Always the wild card, no one really knows what the Panthers will do. Logically, they would give Turner a fourth season to get the team to a bowl game, but who really knows. Considering the fact that they led Mario Cristobal go after a 3-9 season that followed back to back bowl berths, it would not surprise me to see Ron Turner fired.

Instability has been the name of the game at FIU since the football program was started. Anything could happen at FIU and I would not be surprised.

Southern Miss: Every year, there is a coach that takes his team from a cellar dweller to one of the better in the conference and gets poached by a larger program. The coach that fits that category is Todd Monken. The fact that he has won more games in 2015 than in his two previous seasons combined has caught the eye of other programs.

The main reason to believe that Monken will be in Hattiesburg for the long term is the fear of a team poaching him and finding out that he is a one year wonder. If he puts in two or three seasons of top level CUSA football, schools will be knocking down his door to talk with him.
Do you agree or disagree? Could we see a surprise defection from the CUSA coaching ranks after this season? Let me know in the comments and we can have a discussion.

i don't see Monken getting any offers yet

(11-04-2015 03:17 PM)techdawg88 Wrote: [ -> ]i don't see Monken getting any offers yet

Hope not!

Not this year for Monken, especially after they read the list of teams we have beaten and look at their records to get to this point...Now, with that said, if somehow we win out, that might be a different matter.

I think Monken would only draw interest from programs like Kansas at this point. In other words, from programs that regularly destroy coaching careers.

So sad. I wish MT was on the list.

(11-04-2015 03:32 PM)nastybunch Wrote: [ -> ]Not this year for Monken, especially after they read the list of teams we have beaten and look at their records to get to this point...Now, with that said, if somehow we win out, that might be a different matter.

have you heard about Derek Dooley and Tennessee? lol
He got hired away after a 4-8 season and overall 17-20 record. Crazy things happen with college football world.

Yep. and Tennessee has suffered ever since.......

(11-04-2015 03:45 PM)NanoDawg Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-04-2015 03:32 PM)nastybunch Wrote: [ -> ]Not this year for Monken, especially after they read the list of teams we have beaten and look at their records to get to this point...Now, with that said, if somehow we win out, that might be a different matter.

have you heard about Derek Dooley and Tennessee? lol
He got hired away after a 4-8 season and overall 17-20 record. Crazy things happen with college football world.

Derek Dooley was fired by Tennessee, though, right?

(11-04-2015 08:05 PM)AndreWhere Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-04-2015 03:45 PM)NanoDawg Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-04-2015 03:32 PM)nastybunch Wrote: [ -> ]Not this year for Monken, especially after they read the list of teams we have beaten and look at their records to get to this point...Now, with that said, if somehow we win out, that might be a different matter.

have you heard about Derek Dooley and Tennessee? lol
He got hired away after a 4-8 season and overall 17-20 record. Crazy things happen with college football world.

Derek Dooley was fired by Tennessee, though, right?

he did something at Tenn that no other coach was able to do there - 2 losing seasons in a row. Fired before the last game of his third season. He has been on the sideline of the Dallas Cowboys as the Tight End coach in the last few years.

Coker is 1-7. New blood isn't necessarily terrible for a program.

Jeff Brohm is long gone, and that is a compliment to the kind of coach he is. Like him a lot. Same will happen in the American with Memphis, Temple and/or Houston.

(11-05-2015 09:26 AM)isidnirb Wrote: [ -> ]Jeff Brohm is long gone, and that is a compliment to the kind of coach he is. Like him a lot. Same will happen in the American with Memphis, Temple and/or Houston.

It would shock me, and most reasonable WKU fans, if he's here next year. Good for him. But, it won't be for the $$.

(11-05-2015 10:23 AM)Theflash Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-05-2015 09:26 AM)isidnirb Wrote: [ -> ]Jeff Brohm is long gone, and that is a compliment to the kind of coach he is. Like him a lot. Same will happen in the American with Memphis, Temple and/or Houston.

It would shock me, and most reasonable WKU fans, if he's here next year. Good for him. But, it won't be for the $$.

It's always about the $s. If you guys could pay him and his staff and recruiting budget like Alabama can do you think he would stay?

Of course it is for the money... And spotlight

My view is these coaches need to take the money and run when it comes. The coaches are better off and generally I think the schools end off better in the long run as well.

What, no Bailiff? I thought for sure after his historic success top programs would be beating his door down too. Maybe others don't view a coach that still has a losing record at a school in the middle of his ninth season as favorably as some homers do.

(11-05-2015 06:12 PM)SpaceRaider Wrote: [ -> ]My view is these coaches need to take the money and run when it comes. The coaches are better off and generally I think the schools end off better in the long run as well.

In this era, when the average coaching tenure is less than 5 years, and fan bases are looking to fire coaches if they go two years without winning a conference title despite the fact that 12 or 14 schools are viewing for a trophy only one can win a year...

I guess the expectation was different when coaches were lifers at their school, but in this win-today-or-you're-gone era, can't blame coaches at all for taking the deals if they are there.

(11-05-2015 09:59 PM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]What, no Bailiff? I thought for sure after his historic success top programs would be beating his door down too. Maybe others don't view a coach that still has a losing record at a school in the middle of his ninth season as favorably as some homers do.

Bitter.

(11-05-2015 04:16 PM)nastybunch Wrote: [ -> ]Of course it is for the money... And spotlight

Don't get me wrong. The money plays a part in it. But just because 2 mil. $$ is thrown out there, that's not why he will leave. He's made lots of $ in his career and comes from a well-to-do family in Louisville.
Im just saying the money isn't the be all, end all for Brohm.