College football's instructing merry go round is turning into overdrive in the wake of closing the normal season.
Another opening surfaced Monday when UNLV terminated Marcus Arroyo regardless of improving to 5-7 this season.
The Rebels might actually think about an unmistakable substitution.
The Athletic's Bruce Feldman conjectured Gary Patterson as an "interesting name" to screen.
Patterson went 181-79 out of 22 seasons with TCU. He was college football's second-longest-tenured lead trainer behind Iowa's Kirk Ferentz when terminated after in the midst of a 3-5 beginning a year ago.
The Horned Frogs are 12-0 under Sonny Dykes and probable one win away from establishing a College Football Playoff bid.
Hiring Patterson would be a major move for the Mountain West Gathering program.