Around the Dog Park: Coaching hires are coming in hot and heavy

General G5

• We’ve release our final bowl projections of the season.
• Thanks to our Florida SB Nation cohorts for joining us for a roundtable discussion about the state of college football in the state of Florida.
• Delaware is set to begin construction on a huge facilities upgrade.
• East Carolina has poached Southern Miss Athletic Director Jon Gilbert.
• Stephen F. Austin is focusing on hiring successful coaches with strong ties to the state of Texas.
• In a strange twist, Les Miles had conversations with UT-Arlington before accepting the job at Kansas.
• Texas Southern is seeking to keep their coaching search local, including targeting Rice’s wide receivers coach.
• Maine Head Coach Joe Harasymiak could be a good fit at UMass.
• Tight end Bryce Roberts has requested a transfer from New Mexico State.

AAC

• Scottie Montgomery still has a job at ECU but his seat continues to get more and more hot as surrounding programs snatch up coaching talent.
• UCF quarterback McKenzie Milton has regained blood flow through his knee and is now walking again. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers after a gruesome injury last week.
• Milton faces a tough road forward if he wants to continue playing football. Don’t count him out.
• While Charlie Strong will likely return to Tampa, the Bulls are not going to settle for the status quo.
• Tulsa has opted to retain Philip Montgomery for another season.

C-USA

• Charlotte has hired James Madison Head Coach Mike Houston to take over their program. Really strong hire.
• We preview the C-USA championship game and discuss the coaching carousel in the C-USA Pawdcast.
• Rick and Brent Stockstill recollect on their memories together at Middle Tennessee as Brent prepares for his last game in Murfreesboro.
• FIU has accepted an invitation to the Bahamas Bowl.
• UTSA Offensive Coordinator Al Borges has been fired after the Roadrunners finished second to last in scoring.
• If UTSA Head Coach Frank Wilson doesn’t get his OC hire right then he’ll likely be the next coach to get fired in San Antonio.
• Love this scheduling agreement. Marshall and Virginia Tech have agreed to a home-and-home series.
• Lane Kiffin begins to prepare to get the FAU Owls back into a bowl game next season.
• Bobby Wilder wasted no time in announcing changes to his coaching staff after the Monarchs’ season came to an end.
• Former WKU players’ positive opinions of Tyson Helton played a major role in WKU’s decision to hire Helton back to Bowling Green.
• Louisiana Tech is flying out to the Hawaii Bowl, their first destination bowl in quite some time.

Sun Belt

• Jake Spavital is the man in San Marcos. Texas State shouldn’t have any problem scoring points next year, as most of their offense returns this season.
• It’s amazing Texas State was able to make a respectable coaching hire after the program’s dirty laundry has been aired out over the past two weeks.
• Texas State donors have begun to pull their money out of the program in response to the #FireTeis campaign.
• Even if ULM doesn’t get selected for a bowl game they can walk away with their heads held high after putting together a solid season.
• Arkansas State is heading to the Arizona Bowl.
• We stack up the league in our final Sun Belt power rankings of the season