Bowling green football job profile: pluses, minus and candidates to replace Scot Loeffler

The bowling green job is open. Scot Loeffler announced on Friday that he accepted coaching coaching job at the Philadelphia Eagles and left the Falcons with a coaching search for an inappropriate time.

Loeffler went 27-41 in six seasons, but brought the falcons to three consecutive Bowl games (all losses). BG's 6-2 record in Mac Play last season was the best under Loefflers watch. Now the school has to find a new trainer after the day and shortly before the start of the spring exercises.

How good is the bowling green job? Which names could get in the mix? How much will timing affect the search? Based on discussions with industry sources, you will find a testimony to the job and the potential candidates you have to watch.

Recent history/tradition: c

The last decade of the BG football was difficult, but here was success. Dave Clawson and Dino Babers led the Falcons from 2013-15 to three consecutive Mac East Division titles, including two Mac championships in 2013 and 2015. However, both went for power 4 jobs, and the Falcons have struggled since then. Bowling Green has achieved three consecutive Bowl games, but that came after six consecutive seasons. Since 2015, the falcons have not won more than seven games in one season.

Outlook on the field: D+

All-America Tight End Harold Fannin Jr., who goes to the NFL. The top recipient Malcolm Johnson Jr. and the quarterback Connor Bazelak have no justification, and Terion Stewart's top return switched to Virginia Tech. This is life in the Mac these days. The Falcons added 15 transfers to five of them from Power 4 programs, but it is difficult to predict what the squad will look like, especially since the upcoming spring sports window could create more uncertainty for squads.

Money matters: D

Loeffler's $ 582,000 was the second lowest in the Mac and the fifth lowest in FBS under public school jobs. According to the Sportico database, BG was sixth in the Mac in the football editions in 2023. Name, image and similarity efforts were not too prominent in the Mac, and it is unclear how much BG has to spend on taking players with players if the house accounting is approved. The Sebo Athletic Center is attached to the Doyt L. Perry Stadium and offers a 42,500 square meter training and meeting center for all sports from Bowling Green. The Perry Field House offers an inner practice.

University stability: B-

A week ago, sports director Derek Van der Merwe received an extension of the contract by 2030, so that there are probably no changes there. The school emphasized that the sports department has set up a donation record for unique donors since its hiring at the end of 2022 and implemented the school's life design program in the entire department. The university continues to grow, with the new student increased by 22 percent in the past two years.

Trainer pool: C-

Mercer head coach Mike Jacobs Is a northwestern Ohio with an impressive 85-20 record as head coach. He went 11: 3 at Mercer in his first year and reached the FCS quarter-finals. Previously, Jacobs went to Lenoir-Rhyne Division II 32-9 and created a top 10 program, and he was 42-8 in the Division II Notre Dame (Ohio) and also created a top 10 program. But would a seated head coach be ready to leave his team in March?

Mount Union head coach Geoff Dartt is 56-4 in the III Ohio Powerhouse. While the program has not won a national title since 2017, Dartt has won the national championship game twice in the past three years, including last season. The former Mount Union player has spent the Lila Raiders up to a year since 2017. Lance Leipold made the change from Division III to the Mac and won in Buffalo. Could another trainer do the same?

Toledo defensive coordinator Vince Kehren was the head coach of Mount Union from 2013-19 and won two national titles of Division III. The 48-year-old knows Ohio through and through and he has regularly produced one of the three best defenses in the Mac since his arrival in 2020.

Michigan Running Backs trainer Tony Alford tried to get a head coach job. The native acron spent 2015-23 in the state of Ohio and joined the Wolverines a year ago. He knows the area and has produced several NFL -Runningbacks, such as Ezekiel Elliott and JK Dobbins. Alford previously trained at Notre Dame and Louisville.

Offensive coordinator Kansas Jim Zebrowski He spent 2017 until 2020 in the Mac in Buffalo and developed quarterbacks such as Tyree Jackson, Jason Bean and Jalon Daniels. Zebrowski has head coaching experience in Division III Lakeland, in four seasons 28-12 and for the first time in the program history reaches the playoffs. He was promoted to the sole offensive coordinator from Kansa's' co-offensive coordinator in this low season.

Minnesota co-defensive coordinator Nick Monroe From 2010-15 in the bowling Green and two Mac championships under Clawson and Babers trained before he followed Babers to Syracus. Monroe spent seven years with the orange and has been with the Gopher since 2023. The defense of the Minnesota defense in Minnesota nationwide nationwide in the permissible points nationwide.

The sports director of the John Carroll University (Ohio) Brian Polian has been in the mix for several Mac jobs over the years. He went 23-27 as head coach of Nevada from 2013-16 and reached two Bowl games. The former coordinator for Notre Dame and Stanford Special Teams recently trained football in 2022 at the LSU.

Eastern Kentucky head coach Walt Wells has reached the FCS playoffs in two of his last three years, including an 8: 5 record of last season. The native of 57-year-old Tennessee, who previously trained in Kentucky and Tennessee and other stations.

Chattanooga head coach Rusty Wright IS 37-27 Six seasons, including five consecutive winnersaisons and an FCS playoff appearance last year. The native South Carolina came to Miami (Ohio) assistant from 2005 to 2008, but spent most of his career in the south.

Could Dino Babers return? The former bowling Green head coach was the Arizona offensive coordinator last season, but will not return in 2025. Babers went from 2014-15 18: 9 as head coach of BG, including 12: 4 in the Mac game.

Total grade: C-

Coach can win here in the past, but coaching in the Mac has never been harder in the transfer portal, which is one reason why Loeffler went. Timing makes this job very difficult to predict, especially for seated head coaches. The falcons have not paid off as competitive and appealing as it should be. Nevertheless, Loeffler showed that annual Bowl games are fair expectation. But the next trainer could try to hold a squad together in the spring portal.

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