Coaching Carousel

As rumored on Friday, Georgia assistant Neil Callaway has taken the head coaching job at UAB. The Alabama media decries the hire as the product of Paul Bryant, Jr.'s good ole boy network. Georgia is left without an offensive line coach, but most Dawg fans think Callaway was due to leave soon anyway. Paul has a list of potential replacements, led by Art Kehoe, the former Miami O-line coach who is now in Oxford. Kehoe and Richt played together at Miami.

Elsewhere, Derek Dooley, former LSU assistant and son of Vince Dooley, came out of nowhere and has taken the reins at Louisiana Tech. Dooley was on Nick Saban's 2003 staff that won LSU a national championship and was most recently a Miami Dolphins assistant. Tech is a decent job. You can win there, but the fan base is not much. Most of their home games are not that well attended because their fans are in deer stands at kickoff. An alum recently told me that their mascot didn't show up to the last game because its family was going to the LSU game instead. The cheerleaders had to borrow a bulldog from someone else. Can't see the Seilers ditching the Georgia game because they got Georgia Tech tickets. Tech has had several excellent quarterbacks over the years and have pulled some big upsets. Alabama in 1999 comes to mind.

So where to, Jimbo Fisher? If FSU wants him, they might want to break out some booster checkbooks. Jimbo makes a heap of money in Baton Rouge and FSU's highest paid assistant makes about half of Jimbo's current salary.