Coaching Carousel — Coordinators & Playbooks
The carousel is open Weeks 15–18 (Conference Championships → Bowl Week 3).
Firing a coordinator is performance-based. The goal: no unrealistic coordinator turnover just to hunt for better abilities or coaching-tree stacks. If his unit meets the standard for your program's prestige, he stays. If it falls below, you may make a change.
Measured by regular-season points-per-game rank: the OC by points scored per game, the DC by points allowed per game.
- 5 or 4.5 star prestige: top 30.
- 4 star: top 50.
- 3.5 or 3 star: top 70.
- 2.5 star and below: top 100.
Being eligible means you may fire that coordinator — you are never required to. A coordinator who met the standard must be retained.
Your playbook is your coordinator's on both sides of the ball: change your offense by hiring an Offensive Coordinator and your defense by hiring a Defensive Coordinator — offseason only, during the carousel, then declare both on My Hub. No mid-season changes.
Why your old coordinator left decides your book. Check the reason on EA's Staff Moves screen:
- Fired — and the game also shows "Fired" for a coordinator you did not extend. Run the new coordinator's book (his school's) or the generic book of his scheme. Your previous book is no longer allowed.
- Hired by Another Team or Went to the NFL — he was poached. You may keep your current book, which stays tied to you, or take the new coordinator's book or his scheme's generic.
No head coaches as coordinators. Don't hire or poach a head coach — fired or current — as your OC or DC. A user taking over a team displaces its head coach into the hiring pool, and those coaches are far better than a normal coordinator.
Head coach jobs: apply only to ACC, B1G or SEC jobs. A Big 12 or G6 job only if you're fired and no ACC, B1G or SEC school wants you.