COLUMBUS, Ohio — The resumption of Big Ten media days in Indianapolis next month will feature a lot of familiar faces scattered around the interview tables. The offseason included only one coaching change in the conference. When Illinois fired Lovie Smith, it hired former Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema — hardly a stranger to the Big Ten. How rare is that lack of turnover? In nine of the last 11 years there have been two or more coaching changes in the Big Ten. Doug Lesmerises, Stephen Means and I debated the relative stability of the Big Ten football coaches on Monday’s episode of Buckeye Talk. I asked them to put all 14 coaches into one of the three categories. • ON THE COUCH: Not going anywhere — at least not for a while. And when he does, it will probably be on his own terms, either retiring after a successful run…
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