Friday, January 24, 2014

In the FCS Huddle: Ride on the coaching carousel so strange

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania  -- The FCS head coaching carousel has ground to a halt ... at least for the short term.

The spinning ride is harsher than a polar vortex. An alarming 26 FCS schools - just over one-fifth nationally - have changed head coaches since the end of the 2013 regular season in November.

The hiring of K.C. Keeler at Sam Houston State on Thursday completed the list of moves, though the ride is sure to start up again whenever a coach gets a whiff of another opportunity or some college administration says its football program's rebuilding plan is taking too long.

It was just over a year ago that Keeler was ousted from a successful, 11-year run at his alma mater, Delaware, which he had taken to the FCS national championship game as recently as the 2010 season.



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