USA Today: Ole Miss, Tennessee could pursue Charlie Strong

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USA Today: Ole Miss, Tennessee could pursue Charlie Strong

• By Austin Nivison
• Oct 6, 2017 • 1 min read

Only five weeks have been played in this college football season, but that doesn't mean coaching carousel talk hasn't already gotten fired up. One coach that could be on the move after the 2017 season is South Florida's Charlie Strong. According to Dan Wolken of USA Today, Strong just hasn't been as happy coaching a Group of Five team and would really like to get back to a Power Five school for 2018.

Though Strong’s Texas experience was a disaster, he’s 58-37 as a college head coach and will likely win 10 or more games this season at USF. He’s still a marketable name in the business and has a good track record, a good recruiting reputation and a likable personality. It wouldn’t be a stretch to see him involved with Ole Miss or perhaps Tennessee, which offered him the job in 2012 when he was at Louisville.

The Ole Miss job is currently occupied by interim head coach Matt Luke — who will almost certainly be done at the end of the year. Tennessee, on the other hand, would have to fire head coach Butch Jones to create an opening for Strong.

It's a fair question to wonder how Strong would be received in Knoxville even though he was a candidate for that job before Butch Jones was hired. Strong had a tumultuous tenure at Texas, which could raise some concerns. As for Ole Miss, possible NCAA bowl bans would make that job incredibly difficult for the next coach so that could deter Strong from making the move to Oxford.

 

 

 

Regardless, Strong will likely have a few opportunities to take another job in the Power Five if he keeps the Bulls playing the way they have through the first five weeks of the season.

 

[Bull Matrix]

USF could hire Coach Scott from Tenn

[Roaming Bull]

5 minutes ago, Bull Daly said:

USF could hire Coach Scott from Tenn

Hell yeah, but I think CCS might say hard pass to these schools. Seems like decent jobs open up almost yearly now. Furthermore racist boosters

[Flowers4Heisman]

Why don't they look to Oregon where there are TWO possible candidates? And might they need a basketball coach, there's one there, too!

[NCBull]

Get this junk outta here, come on...I think at this point in the season we can safely say #FakeNews

[Rocky Style]

Those are not exactly attractive gigs at the moment.

[charsibb]

CCS will leave

Another coach will come

Ad infinitum

Burn those bridges as we get to them, but...

WE WILL STILL BE HERE!

GO BULLS!

[Bull Matrix]

32 minutes ago, Flowers4Heisman said:

Why don't they look to Oregon where there are TWO possible candidates? And might they need a basketball coach, there's one there, too!

Is Oregon part of the scandal ?

[NewEnglandBull]

2 minutes ago, charsibb said:

CCS will leave

Another coach will come

Ad infinitum

Burn those bridges as we get to them, but...

WE WILL STILL BE HERE!

GO BULLS!

Preach! 

[usfbullrider]

He's probably gonna suck after all these seniors leave because hes actually gonna have to earn a paycheck by coaching and recruiting harder.  Bye give us Larry Scott who will recruit better not just roll over for the Big 3.  F U Strong for opening your mouth.  Not professional.