There are three coaches in college football that are primed to dominate the college football landscape like it has never been before. Each of them seems to have been born to lead the teams they are leading and each of them has been successful beyond anyone’s reasonable expectations. The three I am talking about are Pete Carroll at USC, Urban Meyer at Florida and Greg Schiano at Rutgers. All thee are young, energetic, creative, personable, able to relate to their kids but still seem wise beyond their years. If you believe in destiny then these three men were destined to end up exactly where they are.

Both Carroll and Schiano have been courted by other schools and the NFL in recent years but both would be foolish to leave where they are. It is only a matter of time before Meyer is also courted; this past year was only his second at UF. All coaches know that job jumping comes with the territory. Some jump before they are pushed, some jump because it is too enticing to stay where they are, but there are no jobs in this world that are better than the jobs these three currently hold.

Carroll has been in the NFL and knows what it is all about; there should be no enticement for him. He is a typical California guy (born, raised and went to college in CA) and has a personality that fits USC like a glove, no OJ pun intended.

Schiano had the carrot of Miami dangled in front of him and passed it up without any problems. There is nothing he can do at ‘The U’ that hasn’t already been done. He has already achieved more net gains at Rutgers than are even possible at Miami. While some expressed shock, they obviously don’t know what motivates Coach Schiano. He dreamt of making Rutgers into a national power ever since he was a kid, and now he is on the verge of doing just that. When he does, he will become to Rutgers what Joe Paterno is to Penn St.

Could Urban be enticed by the NFL? I guess anything is possible, but Urban is a stereo-typical college football coach and why would he leave Gainesville? There is no reason. And if he has been paying attention to the Nick Saban saga, he knows that the NFL is such a vastly different beast than college football.

These three guys are building dynasties. And all the factors are working in their favor. They are geographically diverse, they are not natural rivals of each other, they have many, many years ahead of them and they are in talent-laden states where, if they only recruit their state well, they will always have talented teams.

One other factor in their favors is the conditions of their biggest regional rivals. UCLA’s Karl Dorrell has done a nice job so far, even upset USC this year, but that is not going to last. UCLA is a basketball school and Pete will get any player he wants over UCLA any day of the week. Urban meanwhile is seeing the Gators two biggest in-state rivals going in the opposite direction. FSU and Miami have major troubles and those troubles couldn’t come at a better time for Gator Nation. Schiano meanwhile has Penn St, which will struggle as long questions linger about Paterno until he finally steps down. In his conference he has Louisville which has a new coach this year, and West Virgina where Rich Rodriguez hurt himself when he interviewed for the Alabama job.

USC, Florida and Rutgers; these three programs are here to stay and these three gentlemen should plant their roots and declare that they will never leave, never ever even think about leaving. There is no reason to, for each they have found their destinies and their destinies have found them.