What Les Miles' firing and the coaching carousel means for Ohio State

   We’re not even to October yet, and for most college football programs, this season is still in the early stages. But a few programs have already started to look to next year. The biggest, of course, was LSU, who made the somewhat surprising decision to move on from the Les Miles era. Florida International also fired Ron Turner Sunday, so there are officially two open FBS head coaching positions (besides Baylor). More will likely open up in the coming weeks. Ohio State isn’t scheduled to face either team in the near future, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t potential ramifications for the Buckeyes. As far as personnel is concerned, LSU’s search doesn’t look like it will directly impact Ohio State. Urban Meyer isn’t going to leave for the Tigers, and while the Buckeyes have plenty of assistants that could potentially be hired as head coaches this offseason (Luke Fickell, Ed Warinner, and of course, Greg Schiano), the odds that any of them would be considered LSU coaching candidates is exceptionally low. one of LSU’s top candidates will almost assuredly be former Ohio State assistant and current Houston head coach Tom Herman. Whether Herman will be interested remains to be seen, but coaching prowess coupled with LSU’s talent and recruiting advantages could be formidable. Ohio State doesn’t really recruit against Tom Herman now, but if he took the LSU job, Meyer and Herman might be butting heads more regularly on the recruiting trail.
   If there is one thing that teams that sustain success over the years fear at the end of every season is which assistant coaches will be leaving and what school will they be joining. Last college football season the lost of Tom Herman without question cost Ohio State vs Michigan State. Alabama lost its assistant this offseason to a division foe Georgia so this scare is definitely something that you take into consideration everytime a top tear school releases a coach and your team has excellent coordinators. Its bitter sweet because your losing a coach but your happy to see him advance in his career and wish him success. That is until his new team squares off against your team.

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References

Brown, Matt. "What Les Miles' firing and the coaching carousel means for Ohio State." SB Nation (2016).