JSU’s Deion Sanders and Holy Cross’s Bob Chesney are among the lower-level coaches who could be candidates to make the jump.
College football programs pull coaches from many different places. There are the conventional routes, like poaching a sitting FBS coach or sticking with an interim or hiring a coordinator. Schools have gotten a bit creative in the last few years, like Texas Tech hiring Baylor assistant coach Joey McGuire or Arkansas hiring Georgia offensive line coach Sam Pittman. There was also North Carolina running it back with Mack Brown, who was 68 when the Tar Heels hired him for the second time.