re: 2020 coaches in SEC

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Beliema will probably be in the NFL.

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Or possibly Iowa. It'd be another odd sideways career choice for him but the chance to coach at his old school would be awfully tempting for a Midwestern guy like him.

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Or possibly Iowa. It'd be another odd sideways career choice for him but the chance to coach at his old school would be awfully tempting for a Midwestern guy like him.

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Nah, Bielema will be riding a 5 game win streak against Alabama and fending off bagmen from LSU.

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Head coach still with team:

Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Missouri
vandy
Arkansas
LSU (unless he retires)
Ole Miss
MIss. State

Teams with new coaches:

Auburn - I predict their coach leaves for the NFL
Alabama
A&M
TN
South Carolina

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I'd be kind of surprised if McElwain is still there, Muschamp left such a massive mess I think we needed to go for a big time recruiter, I think McElwain is a decent coach but more the kind of guy who could keep a top flight program moving not rebuild. That and I have concerns of whether he'll do the smart thing and lean more spread (like he did at CSU) or try and go Bama lite like Muschamp did.

Hope I'm wrong and he's airing it out in 2020, just a bit skeptical given his record as a coach.

I think Spurrier, Saban and Miles will be retired by 2020. Maybe Richt and Pinkel too, not sure how old they are. Pinkel might be AD at Mizzou.
Les might be on ESPN or SEC Network. At first thought I'd have said Saban there too, but I don't think so- Miles would own him in that arena, and I don't think Saban could handle that.

Expecting Fla to have another coach by then. Sumlin will be gone from A&M too. Probably at a smaller Texas school, or maybe somewhere as an OC.

Not sure what to make of Mullen at State; he might find a bigger program to take. Florida maybe, after they fire McElwain?

Tennessee will try hard to become stable, so I expect Butch to remain unless they re-implode.

My best guess is that Freeze and Gus will move on somewhere. Freeze- I think he fades away, Gus might go to the NFL or Oregon (Nike money coming into play).

Beleima- if Arkansas is successful, I wouldn't be shocked if he follows Saban at Bama.

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Teams with new coaches:

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Alabama

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I agree with this. Or I just hope it will happen just for the sake of seeing who they grabbed next. Urban Meyer anyone? lol. I don't think Bielema would go there. Scheme aside it doesn't seem like a fit. His big personality would literally make all college football fans sick in a way Saban's doesn't. I could see BB in the nfl, though.

If bielema was coach at Bama and commented about how great an arse a Dlinemen had or called Kneeling against Texas erotic the gay memes would break the internet.

Alabama- Saban retired
Arkansas- Bert still there
Auburn- Gus Fired
Florida- Jim Mc still there
Georgia- Richt retired
Kentucky- Stoops still there
LSU- Miles fired
Miss St- Mullen there
Missouri - Pinkle there
Ole Miss- Freeze there
South Carolina- Spurrier retired
Tennessee- Jones there
Texas A&M- Sumlin in NFL
Vanderbilt- Mason there

I think Mullen is going to try and get out of State if he can. He tried to last Dec./Jan. when head coaching jobs opened up. I just don't know if he can land a good enough job to run from State to a better gig.

Richt will be retired but it'd there Evil Richt unleashes his ultimate plan by becoming president of the SEC since he's such a good guy. Georgia wins the next 5 national titles and Bama is stripped of all of their national titles

Gus will never be the coach at Arkansas. We don't want him. If we did he would be here now.

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Would the Auburn coach head to Arkansas if the Arkansas coach left for Iowa?

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I'm going to go out on a limb here and just pretend this isn't a troll attempt, or at least an attempt to get a rise out of Auburn/Arkansas fans, and answer this seriously.

If we wanted Malzahn he would most likely be here as we speak. There were a couple factors when it came to Arkansas passing him over when the position was open. First, and the biggest factor, is the division of the fanbase and boosters had he been hired. There were about 1/3rd of the major boosters and some important people pushing hard for Gus, including his small following of high school and religious fans. These people threatened all sorts of crazy actions if Gus wasn't hired, while the rest mostly sat back and were slowly turned away from the idea the more these people threatened. The board saw this happening with their small group and foresaw the major divide that would spread throughout the entire fanbase. This was all very reminiscent of a previous "home grown" hire, aka Houston Nutt.

The second factor, which didn't weigh on the situation quite as much as the first, also could be contributed to Nutt and the fact that the scars from his time had just finally healed. When a program hires someone that's considered a home grown talent, and that hire fails to some degree, it's infinitely harder to remove that person from the program because that person will always have some semblance of supporters. We saw this take shape and play out with ole Houston and didn't want to go that route again, at least any time soon.

The last major factor was the fact that he had just taken the Arkansas State job less than a year ago. Jeff Long and a majority of the board thought it wouldn't seem right to hire away the new coach at a fellow in-state school and step on their toes by doing such. 99% of the ASU fans are also fans of the Razorbacks, and the board didn't want to risk losing any amount of fans by pissing them off and forcing them to choose sides, in what most likely would've been a mess. UofA reaching out and stealing the coach away would've created attention towards the other school in the state, the one that the UofA barely acknowledges exists. This would further legitimize the ASU program.

TL;DR version: Arkansas thinks Malzahn is a good coach but didn't want to hire him because it could've made a lot of messes. Malzahn can thank Houston Nutt.