Last week, former Minnesota State-Mankato head coach-turned-Minot State head coach Todd Hoffner announced his intention to turn to Mankato as head coach following a two-year ordeal in which he was wrongfully removed from his job as the Mavericks' head coach.
After a one-day boycott, the Mankato players and coaches got on the same page, and this chapter of the saga appears to be closed, at least for now.
However, there was a gaping hole left in the Minot State program.
Coming off a 2-9 season, the Division II Beavers now had to hire their second head coach in three months. To do that, Minot State plucked away another head coach, pulling Tyler Hughes away from Southern Virginia. Hired at Southern Virginia in March, Hughes spent the 2013 season as a quality control assistant at Ohio State. Prior to that, Hughes went 20-4 in two seasons as the head coach at Snow College in Utah.
At Southern Virginia, now faced with hiring its second head coach in a two-month span, the Division III Knights have promoted defensive coordinator Jason Walker to head coach. Walker spent the past four seasons as a graduate assistant at BYU. Prior to that, he was the defensive coordinator and special teams coordinator at Sky View High School in Smithfield, Utah.
The dominoes of the coaching profession fall in strange ways sometimes, and now both Hughes and Walker have huge opportunities in front of them. Here's hoping each coach makes the most of his.