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Eighteen speakers. Eight subwoofers. Four
televisions. Two bars. And one hot tub. There’s
really no need to ever go into the stadium if you
have access to the Heartland Cyclone Ultimate
Tailgate RV. The 44-foot trailer, which was
unveiled at the inaugural RV Experience trade
show last March in Salt Lake City, has its own
13-foot garage, which can fit motorcycles, four-
wheelers and the aforementioned tub. The RV also
has a full kitchen with a bar counter, plush leather
seating, and a party space with a keg refrigerator.
It will run you a cool $100,000 for the most-
decked-out version, which features an industry-
first capability to set up the side patio with the
touch of a button, as well as a storage room for all
kinds of extra gear. Not ready to invest in a luxury
When the coaching carousel
spins again, these five will be prime
candidates for the top openings
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COACHES ON THE MOVE
REPORT CARD
SETH LITTRELL: He has a
formidable list of ex-bosses on his
résumé—Mike Leach, Kevin Wilson,
Larry Fedora, Mark Mangino—but his
record at North Texas (23–17)
matters more. Littrell, 41, has made three bowl
games in a row and has won nine games in
each of the past two seasons.
LANCE LEIPOLD: Between 2007
and ’14, Leipold took Wisconsin-
Whitewater to the Division III
championship game seven times,
winning six. He went 7–17 during his
first two seasons at Buffalo but then had six
wins in 2017 and 10 last year.
LUKE FICKELL: He coached at
Ohio State through the Jim Tressel
era and most of Urban Meyer’s tenure,
rising to co–defensive coordinator by
the time Cincinnati hired him in 2017.
There he inherited a team that won one conference
game the year before he arrived—and by his second
season he’d turned the Bearcats into a ranked team;
they finished 11–2 last fall.
BLAKE ANDERSON: After joining
Larry Fedora’s staff at Southern Miss
in 2008, Anderson moved with him
to North Carolina in 2012. As the
Tar Heels’ offensive coordinator in
’12 and ’13, Anderson transformed the unit, which
averaged more than 400 yards per game for the
first time in nearly two decades. That success got
him hired at Arkansas State in ’14, and he’s led the
Red Wolves to five bowls in five years.
JOSH HEUPEL: He followed a
winding path to UCF, but after one
season in Florida, Heupel is well on
his way to correcting any lingering
notion that he might have been
responsible for the Oklahoma offensive downturn
that got him fired from his alma mater after the
2014 season. Heupel hasn’t stayed anywhere
long since, rising from Utah State’s offensive
coordinator to Missouri’s to his first head
coaching job. And if he can keep up what he
did last fall without star quarterback McKenzie
Milton, he’ll get looks.
The right gear matters—on the field and in the
parking lot. Support your team in style
OUTDOOR
GAMES
BEST: Louisville fired Bobby Petrino on Nov. 11 and
reached out to Purdue’s Jeff Brohm—a former Cards
QB—shortly after. The Ville lost several high-profile
recruits and needs a major rebuild, which is exactly
what Brohm has been doing at Purdue. He’s led the
Boilermakers to bowl games in his first two years,
has one of the most exciting receivers in the country
(5' 9" sophomore Rondale Moore) and features a D
that has nearly every major contributor back.
OFFSEASON MOVES
The good, the bad and the downright confusing
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