Lance Leipold's success at Kansas is an illustration of why lower-division college football coaches deserve more opportunity at the highest level. The latest from DanWolken:
Time will tell if Leipold is serious about spending the rest of his coaching days at Kansas or gets the itch to rescue a fading blueblood.
And the reality is that fans and boosters will only be excited about what they have seen or what they think they know. Even Willie Fritz, who has been well known for a decade now because of the success he had at Georgia Southern and Tulane, spent 13 years winning at Division II Central Missouri before getting the call-up to Division I at Sam Houston State.
But as one person in that business acknowledged this week, their familiarity beyond FBS extends to maybe a handful of FCS coaches. Looking into candidates at Division II or III schools just isn’t practical, not merely because of the time it would take but because the athletics directors they work with aren’t going to risk their own careers on someone from that level.
Danny White, who hired Leipold at Buffalo, could absorb that risk in his previous job. If he were in the same situation now as the athletics director at Tennessee, he might face a fan mutiny. Kansas then went to the big name looking for redemption in Charlie Weis, whose nosedive at Notre Dame turned out not to be a coincidence. He went 6-22.
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