Three weeks into the 2025-26 college football season, and two notable Power Four head coaches are out of a job already. The UCLA Bruins were the first to the punch by moving on from one of their own in former star running back DeShaun Foster. UCLA lost a brutal one on Friday night to New Mexico to fall to 0-3 on the year. He was hired fast to replace Chip Kelly. UCLA is the worst team in the Big Ten...
Not much later, the Virginia Tech Hokies decided it was time to move on from their former head coach in Brent Pry. He was hired away from Penn State to help recruit the Tidewater Region. Following one bad performance after another, he was relieved of his duties after getting embarrassed by rival Old Dominion. He too fell to 0-3 on the season. Outside of Stanford, this is the worst team in the ACC...
So with two Power Four jobs opening up during the middle part of September, this could be one of the strangest revolutions on the coaching carousel in quite some time. It took until November for the first Power Four job to open up last year. The only gigs of that level to become available were North Carolina, Purdue, UCF and West Virginia. Expect for more high-profile jobs to open up at some point.
Unfortunately, Georgia defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann cannot be a candidate for either job.
Regret will be undeniable if Glenn Schumann were to take either P4 post
While Schumann has yet to really look the part of a college football head coach, he has to be extremely careful with the type of job he takes. If it is a potentially great job, he may not offer the gravitas to keep the boosters happy if things were to ever go southward for him. Should it be a bad job like either the UCLA or Virginia Tech openings, he may suffer the same fate as his predecessors.
At this time, the one Power Four job that makes some bit of sense for Schumann to take is Kentucky. That is contingent on Mark Stoops not getting it done in Lexington for a second consecutive season. Stoops has had tremendous staying power there, despite it being a basketball school. Schumann may never hold a candle to Stoops, but that is a Power Four job worthy of leaving Georgia for in 2026.
As for the type of candidates UCLA and Virginia Tech should pursue, the Bruins may need a guy who has won at the Group of Five level before and feels ambitious. In a weird way, Brent Brennan makes a lot of sense from his time at San Jose State and this year at Arizona. He is a UCLA alum. As for Virginia Tech, they need a savvy offensive mind, maybe someone like Will Stein or Andy Kotelnicki.
To attempt to tie a bow on this, Schumann does not offer the necessary dynamism to help a struggling program like UCLA or Virginia Tech get over the top in this age of college football. Frankly, he may be better suited to bide his time and go for a high-end Group of Five job, like his colleague Mike Bobo did by leaving Mark Richt's Georgia staff years ago to try his luck over at Colorado State.
UCLA or Virginia Tech potentially hiring Schumann is not how the Bruins or Hokies get back to good.