There seems to be a game of musical chairs playing itself out in the college football head coaching ranks.
First, Nebraska fired Bo Pelini. Mike Riley, the head coach at Oregon State for the past 14 seasons, decided to take over for Pelini, who is now mulling a move to Youngstown State.
Today Gary Anderson up and decided he longer wanted to be the head coach at Wisconsin, announcing that he was leaving the school after two seasons to take over at Oregon State.
All of which means there's currently an open chair at Wisconsin.
Who will be the next coach to jump into the game? Is another college guy planning to hop up out of his seat and shift over to the slightly bigger, better chair before the music stops?
According to Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, it may not be another college coach. Instead, Florio floats Seattle Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell as a potential candidate for the Wisconsin job.
Folks with a finger on the pulse of such issues have flagged Bevell as a viable candidate. And for good reason; Bevell played quarterback at Wisconsin in the 1990s. His coach at the time was the guy who'll hire the next coach, A.D. Barry Alvarez.
Bevell, who has been the offensive coordinator in Seattle since 2011, where he coaches a former Wisconsin quarterback in Russell Wilson, also worked as an offensive coordinator with the Minnesota Vikings and as an assistant with the Green Bay Packers.
As Florio notes, Bevell has gotten head coaching consideration at the NFL level in the past, but never anything particularly substantial.
Perhaps his best bet to lead a program on his own will be to join the college ranks.
