Coordinator Carousel: ACC and Independents

This is part 2 of the 6 part series looking at coordinator changes in college football this season. This installment consists of teams from the ACC and Independent schools.

ACC
Duke: Offensive Coordinator
Out: Peter Vaas
In: Kurt Roper. Roper was brought in as the running backs coach from UT and had served under Cutcliffe as the QB coach at Ole Miss. He's been very successful and should be a large improvement over Vaas.

Duke: Defensive Coordinator
Out: Ted Roof: Roof was fired as Duke's head coach after several years of continued mediocrity.
In: Mike MacIntyre. MacIntyre, much like Corwin Brown, comes to the college game after being a defensive backs coach at the Jets. Brown's hiring was publicized as a great hire. Nothing has really been said about MacIntyre. My guess is MacIntyre will be as good if not better than Brown.

Georgia Tech: Defensive Coordinator
Out: Jon Tenuta. Tenuta's loss will be huge. Notre Dame took the theory of if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. They hired Tenuta as their assistant coach for defense. Look for him to take over for Corwin Brown as coordinator soon.
In: Dave Wommack. A huge red flag goes up when looking at the progression of Wommack's career, where he hit his peak as the defensive coordinator at Arkansas from 2002-2004. Since that time he's moved to secondary coach and linebacker coach at South Carolina until 2006, before moving to Southern Miss to become outside linebacker coach. Replacing a guy like Tenuta with a guy who was a LB coach at a mid-major is a major step down for the Ramblin' Wreck.

Maryland: Offensive Coordinator
Out: Ralph Friedgen. The Friedge has hopped on the bandwagon of head coaches giving up their play calling duties to focus on other aspects of the team. He hopes it works out as well as it did for Mark Richt at Georgia last season.
In: James Franklin. Franklin served as Kansas State's offensive coordinator the past 2 seasons. In 2006 K State was ranked 85th in total offense and in 2007 they improved to 40th in the nation. This decision should work out nicely for the Terps.

Miami: Defensive Coordinator
Out: Tim Walton. Walton was fired after a season that included Miami (OH) giving up less points than Miami (FL).
In: Bill Young. Bill Young comes off a spectacular defensive season at Kansas. He was up for coordinator of the year honors. Much is still in question as to what exactly made Kansas so unexpectedly good last season, but you can't argue against having the nation's #4 ranked defense. This should be a good hire for Miami, however, Young may not have been the sole or main reason for the success at Kansas.

North Carolina: Defensive Coordinator
Out: Chuck Pagano (hired by the Baltimore Ravens)
In: Everett Withers. In what is hands down the biggest head scratcher was the hiring of Withers by North Carolina. Withers comes off a season with Minnesota where his defense gave up 518.7 YPG, last in the nation! Withers is known as a decent recruiter, and that would fit into the recruiting heavy philosophy that UNC is trying to establish.

Virginia: Defensive Coordinator
Out: Mike London (new Richmond head coach)
In: Bob Pruett. The former longtime head coach at Marshall is coming out of retirement to take over the UVA defense. This seems to be a great hire. He was very successful at Marshall, but was rarely talked about. One glaring question is going to be whether or not there's still enough fuel in the Pruett tank to be an effective coach.

Wake Forest: Defensive Coordinator
Out:Dean Hood (hired as head coach at Eastern Kentucky)
In: Brad Lambert. Lambert got the promotion from linebackers coach to DC after Hood left. He did a nice job coaching a underskilled linebackers to highly achieving athletes.

Independents
Navy: Offensive Coordinator
Out: Paul Johnson (New head coach at Georgia Tech)
In: Ivin Jasper. Johnson was almost certainly the brains behind the offensive success at Navy. Jasper was promoted from fullbacks/QB's coach. He should allow for a smooth transition for the offense and has done nice things with the offensive running game.