As the fallout from the retirement of Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban continues to reverberate around the college football world, the fluidity of coaching moves makes words like “expected” take on heightened significance.
On Sunday, the Texas Longhorns were expected to bring back longtime defensive backs coach Duane Akina as an analyst, a decision that seemed final enough at Arizona that the SID deleted Akina’s page in the staff directory.
That was so long ago that Arizona Wildcats head coach Jedd Fisch had just agreed to replace Kalen DeBoer with the Washington Huskies after DeBoer left for Tuscaloosa.