2025-26 Coaching Carousel

[Dell Husker]

 

[Tonkasker]

Great hire for Arkansas. Must have their money right. Golesh wouldn't go there if not

This makes the Lane deal even more interesting imo.

Lane -> LSU
Drink -> Florida
Ole Miss -> ? or Summrall
Auburn -> ? or Summrall

 

[Seaofred92]

Incredible. I had no clue. Another connection we've got on the board! Thanks for sharing

Eck would make sense - Kotelnicki too big for UCONN FB? I guess getting that HC experience is always valuable. I figured Kotelnicki could be a guy to jump a bit bigger outta the gate in his HC Journey

Kotelnicki timing would work out really well for both sides. Keep in mind he’s got experience in the northeast as OC at Buffalo prior to Kansas and Penn State so he knows the area well.

UConn would be hoping that he could leverage the current situation at Penn State/widely expected turnover to bring someone like Grunkemeyer at QB with him and other New England/Northeastern/DMV guys to Storrs, while also getting his shot at a HC gig. A few things to note about UConn:

~$12M in NIL + Rev Share expected for football which is very competitive with the top of the G5. Skyler Bell the Biletnikoff Finalist made ~$600k this year so UConn does have $ to pony up for a few bigger names on that front

- Mora made $2.5M annually and had a decent sized staff pool, UConn has a good GM/Front Office operation going as well

- Facilities are very, very, very good. Keep in mind UConn spent 15 years in the Big East so they’ve had a IPF, multiple practice fields, huge weight room, etc for a long time, all of those items including the locker room at the stadium and facility have been renovated in the last 3 years

- Linear TV deal so every game is on CBSSN

- UConn has 19 games against P4 competition the next 7 years, 10 of which are at home. There’s big time opportunities to make your mark and move up if you win those games (like Mora did by beating UNC last year and BC and Duke this year)

- Andy will have options no doubt.. he may decide timing isn’t right or it isn’t the right fit, but there’s reasons it would be intriguing for both sides. UConn has lost 1 home game in 2 years and hasn’t lost a game to a G5 in regulation since 2023 - there are a lot more structural advantages over the scheduled opponents there than one would realize upon first glance and the P4 games are mostly regional, ACC teams which UConn has already proven it can beat

 

[Dr.DrakeRamoray]

Surprisee but that’s an awesome hire

 

[djw004]

Kotelnicki timing would work out really well for both sides. Keep in mind he’s got experience in the northeast as OC at Buffalo prior to Kansas and Penn State so he knows the area well.

UConn would be hoping that he could leverage the current situation at Penn State/widely expected turnover to bring someone like Grunkemeyer at QB with him and other New England/Northeastern/DMV guys to Storrs, while also getting his shot at a HC gig. A few things to note about UConn:

~$12M in NIL + Rev Share expected for football which is very competitive with the top of the G5. Skyler Bell the Biletnikoff Finalist made ~$600k this year so UConn does have $ to pony up for a few bigger names on that front

- Mora made $2.5M annually and had a decent sized staff pool, UConn has a good GM/Front Office operation going as well

- Facilities are very, very, very good. Keep in mind UConn spent 15 years in the Big East so they’ve had a IPF, multiple practice fields, huge weight room, etc for a long time, all of those items including the locker room at the stadium and facility have been renovated in the last 3 years

- Linear TV deal so every game is on CBSSN

- UConn has 19 games against P4 competition the next 7 years, 10 of which are at home. There’s big time opportunities to make your mark and move up if you win those games (like Mora did by beating UNC last year and BC and Duke this year)

- Andy will have options no doubt.. he may decide timing isn’t right or it isn’t the right fit, but there’s reasons it would be intriguing for both sides. UConn has lost 1 home game in 2 years and hasn’t lost a game to a G5 in regulation since 2023 - there are a lot more structural advantages over the scheduled opponents there than one would realize upon first glance and the P4 games are mostly regional, ACC teams which UConn has already proven it can beat

You've sold me. I'll take the job.

 

[ChocaEgg]

Great hire for Arkansas. Must have their money right. Golesh wouldn't go there if not

This makes the Lane deal even more interesting imo.

Lane -> LSU
Drink -> Florida
Ole Miss -> ? or Summrall
Auburn -> ? or Summrall

fisch to fl

 

[ChocaEgg]

and sumrall to Auburn

 

[Quint]

Agree . The craft side of things is ridiculous right now, but young engineers is ridiculous as well. Most of our young engineers think that after 1 year they should be the PM on a 300M dollar project, the bad part is a lot of these companies will then hire them as a Project Engineer after 1-2 years and then they fail and can't figure out why. The nuts part was when I started with Kiewit in 2007, 60% of the company was under 26 years old. There was a massive gap in the middle ground because you either stayed with them and road the wave of being moved every year of 7 months or you bounced because all of the companies loved Kiewit people because of how they were trained. Loyalty is essentially dead anymore and most of the younger folks will make a change for less than 5K salary uptick.

My youngest is an engineer and started the conversation with me about being underpaid 6 months into his first post grad gig. I told him to shut up and learn something practical, develop a resume and have a conversation with your boss about a bump. You don’t get what you’ve figured out you’re worth, start looking. He did that and landed a great job with a nice bump in salary and an actual team to lead instead of doing it all himself, but he was about to be on the hamster wheel.

It’s interesting on the traditional design side of things though. We do a ton of design build projects and my design partners are essentially the same companies and individuals we had ten years ago. I don’t know how they’re avoiding job shopping, but whatever it is they’re doing it right.

You mention age, and I bet my division is 75% guys under 26 with another 10% under 30, 10 under 40 and then a handful of fossils like me.

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

 

[Fargo Husker]

They’ve got to have some solid talent looking for a P4 landing spot.

 

[BeerConsumer67]

If Golesh has NW Arkansas on board… Lets just say I’m happy we are in the big 10.