College football’s coaching carousel moved last year like my senior-citizen knees. Only five power-conference jobs opened, and none was an A-lister.

Indeed, those on the market last offseason — North Carolina, Wake Forest, West Virginia, Central Florida and Purdue — have produced a scant four top-10 finishes in the last two decades, three by WVU and one by UCF.

But this year, the carousel threatens to have coaches, administrators, agents, fans and media begging for Bonine, a wild ride that inevitably will affect Virginia Tech’s search, ongoing since the Hokies’ Sept. 14 dismissal of Brent Pry.

Tech’s vacancy is among seven in the Power Four leagues, joined by Florida, Penn State, Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Stanford and UCLA, programs with a combined 25 top-10 finishes in the last 20 year

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