ValleyBoy

$300k is base salary from the University system, which is a one year contract. The additional pay and 3 years is from other sources from Georgia Southern. His 3 year contract from other souces rolls back to 3 each year as long as the Eagles meet APR and win 7 games each year.

As a fan of Georgia Southern I know like many other GS fans that other schools will come looking at Fritz as HC for there school. It is what it is. When that times comes I know our AD will make a counter offer such as was made when Army hired our former HC.

Is Willie Fritz the type head coach North Texas needs to hire. YES If Willie Fritz was still the head coach at Sam Houston I feel that North Texas would have a very good chance of hiring him as the next HC at UNT. But with Fritz being at Georgia Southern, I just do not see him having any interest in the UNT job. This has nothing do with facilities, salary, or anything else except timing of when the North Texas job came open in the case of Willie Fritz

Fritz has stated during his time a Georgia Southern that he would like to be able to have around 15-20 pass plays each game. The Eagles problem is that they are just not very good in the passing game. Eagle fans know this and i am sure Fritz is doing his best to try an improve the Eagles passing game.

Just a little information on Jacksonville State HC. http://www.jsugamecocksports.com/coaches.aspx?rc=447&path=football Took over a good football program. This season is only his 3rd year coaching on the college level. JSU grad.

As an outsider looking in I will give you the reasons that have been brought up by Willie Fritz at Georgia Southern for a indoor practive facility. Practice time lost due to lighting. There is a limit on the number of hours per week for practices and team meeting, when practice has to be stopped because of lighting, that is time that cannot be made up. Georgia Southern had a player hit by lighting last year while the team was under a covered palivion right beside the practice field. When practice has to be moved inside to a the rec center (basketball courts) due to lighting, the practice plans change an it is time that cannot be made up.

After he left the business world his stated goal was to be a college football coach. Coastal Carolina took a leap of faith and hire him as their head coach. As to becoming an FBS head football coach he will get that chance with Coastal as they begin their transition to the Sun Belt.

Sounds like Georgia Southern AD for 17 years if you add the following points. Did not understand how APR worked. Did not understand the bid process for the FCS playoffs, ect....... Thank goodness Georgia Southern got a pro athletics President that got him to announce his retirement about a year before Southern accepted the move up to the Sun Belt and replaced him with a real AD.

Georgia Tech is the only P5 running that style at this time. Also at the FBS level you only have Navy, Army, Air Force, and Georgia Southern running a triple option based offense. The offense makes it living off of defenses that do not play assignment football. Now I could see some of the lower P5 taking a chance in making a coaching hire to change to this style offense but one problem is that that there are not that many teams that run that style system so the so the coaching tree is very small. Just as an example, Paul Johnson acts as his own OC. At the FBS level the only OC that stands out and that would be Ivan Jasper the OC from Navy. Now there are several programs at the FCS level but none with very long track records, but this could change in the next few years.

It would not hurt my feeling in any way at all. While I am speaking the truth, I will add another truth. From what I have been reading on what most North Texas want in there next head coach is a offensive minded coach who will pass the ball all around the field like Baylor and TCU. That is not Willie Fritz's offense. His offense is a spread option run offense thats passing game only works when the running game is working. If you do not believe me just check the numbers. Also another fact is that when Georgia Southern hired Willie Fritz the Eagles fanbase would have been calling for the AD head on a platter if the new head coach ran any type offense that was not an run option based offense. The reason for this is that all Georgia Southern football success has been with this type offense. The Paul Johnson Georgia Tech offense was born at Georgia Southern which all Georgia Southern fans still see as a Georgia Southern offense.

Yes, North Texas would be a increase in salary for Fritz, but I feel like he will receive an increase in salary in the very near future from Georgia Southern somewhere in the 600,000 to 700,000 dollar range which would be in the ballpark of what North Texas payed McCarney. As far as the difference in conference and facilities, I see no difference between Georgia Southern and North Texas. Also a difference between Georgia Southern and North Texas for the next several years is Georgia Southern is in a reloading mode.whereas North Texas will be in a total rebuilding mode. Also ONE other difference between North Texas and Georgia Southern is that one demands that there Coach wins whereas the other just hopes there coach wins.

Here is Willie Fritz original contract with Georgia Southern. http://issuu.com/thega/docs/willie_fritz_la14-639 7 wins automatic rollover combined with APR of 940+. It's 3 years in addition to the rollovers. Buyout is 3 years of base pay.

Joe Moglia is 66 years old and is only coaching because he wants too, not for the money but just for the challenge. He will retire from coaching from Coastal Carolina.

As a fan of Georgia Southern who has been following the Mean Green program from afar since my nephew graduated from North Texas, I just wanted to put in my two cents on the Mean Green's next head football coaching hire. I feel like the next Head Coach at North Texas needs to be a coach in the same mold as Willie Fritz. If the Mean Green are able to hire Fritz away from Georgia Southern it would be a slam dunk hire. Now after saying that here are my reasons why Fritz would not leave Georgia Southern for North Texas. 1. It would be a sideways move for Fritz. If you look at the coaching moves that Fritz has made during his coaching career, he has always moved up the food chain not sideways. JUCO (Blinn), D2 (Central Missouri), FCS (Sam Houston), FBS/G5 (Georgia Southern). 2. The only thing that North Texas could offer is more money than Georgia Southern to Fritz. It could even be seen as a step backwards by some. since Fritz already has all the pieces in place at Georgia Southern to keep winning instead of a total program rebuild. 3. Just my gut feeling but I feel like Willie Fritz will only leave Georgia Southern for a Power 5 school or a much higher profile G5 school than North Texas. Best of luck in your coaching search. I hope the Mean Green make the right hire.

The talk is that the Belt will add Georgia Southern and AppSt. NMSU added only as a resort because they are located so far outside the conference footprint.

I might be wrong but my understanding is that any new players that are brought in for the spring semester do not count against the 25 that can be signed in Feb to start next Fall. Example of this would be JUCO and grayshirts that start school in Jan. Also any walk-on players that are awarded a ship would not count against the 25 number.

2009 - Georgia Southern RS year Transfered after coaching change to the same offense that Georgia Tech runs. May 2010 2010 - Northwest Miss Junior College Graduated with A.S. Degree Dec 2010 RS Freshman 2011 - UNT RS Soph. 2012 - UNT RS Junior B.S. Degree Dec 2012 2013 - ? RS Senior in football

I would not schedule the same non conference team each and every year. I feel it would be best try and schedule a 2 game home/away with one of the other state teams then schedule another one of them. Over eight years you would have a two game home/away series with Houston, SMU, TCU, and UTSA.

If you look at a map of the western part of the country you can see why USC. UCLA have not played and FCS school which is also the same reason that Colorado & Washington have also not played and FCS team. There are just not that many FCS football schools in the western part of the country which becomes a factor when scheaduling games for western FBS schools.

You would think that they should have know what the rules were after running into the problem earlier with not enought credit hours.

Winning cures the scheaduling problem.

With Conference USA set to have 12 members next season and 14 by 2015, they will likely play an 8-game conference schedule, C-USA commissioner Britton Banowsky told the Charlotte Observer. http://www.fbschedules.com/2012/06/c-usa-likely-play-8-game-conference-football-schedule/

Just feed back on the fact that Berglund might not be the saving grace that some think. I will have to take a wait and see approach. I hope that he lives up to his billing but only time will tell.

$350k - $500k

I copied this list from the following article from June 2009. It list the top ten QB pro style and dual thread from 2005 thru 2009. I have updated the information on QB that I am aware off. Take the information for what it is worth. http://www.maizenbrew.com/2009/6/10/904837/four-star-quarterbacks-success Rivals.com dual-threat quarterbacks 2009 1Russell Shepard 5* LSU 2Tyrik Rollison 4* Auburn Left Auburn for Sam Houston State 3Eugene Smith 4* West Virginia 4Kevin Newsome 4* <!--[endif]--> Penn State 5Tate Forcier 4* Michigan 6Cody Green 4* Nebraska 7Nathan Scheelhaase 4* Illinois 8Shavodrick Beaver 4* Tulsa 9Casey Pachall 4* TCU 10Jordan Reed 4* Florida 11Raymond Cotton 4* Ole Miss to South Alabama then to JUCO ??? Not included &ndash; 14 Denard Robinson 4* ATH - Michigan Rivals.com pro-style quarterbacks 2009 1Matt Barkley 5* USC 2Garrett Gilbert 5* Texas 3Aaron Murray 4* Georgia 4Tajh Boyd 4* Clemson 5Bryn Renner 4* North Carolina 6Richard Brehaut 4* UCLA 7AJ McCarron 4* Alabama 8Tom Savage 4* Rutgers 9Andrew Maxwell 4* Michigan State 10Allan Bridgford 4* California 11Zach Mettenberger 4* Georgia 12Tyler Russell 4* Mississippi State 13Josh Nunes 4* Stanford 14Ryan Mossakowski 4* Kentucky Rivals.com dual-threat quarterbacks 2008 1Terrelle Pryor 5* OSU &ndash; You may have heard of him 2E.J. Manuel 4* Florida State 3MarQueis Gray 4* Minnesota - eligibility issues 4Robert Griffin 4* Baylor - Starter (Heisman winner) 5Matt Scott 4* Arizona 6Darron Thomas 4* Oregon - Bench 7Curt Phillips 4* Wisconsin 8B.J. Daniels 4* South Florida 9Kody Spano 3* Nebraska 10Jaybo Shaw 3* Georgia Tech - Included for awesome name Tranfered to Georgia Southern 2 yr starter Rivals.com pro-style quarterbacks 2008 1Blaine Gabbert 5* Missouri - sorta starter 2Dayne Crist 5* Notre Dame - Bench 3Mike Glennon 4* N.C. State - starter 4Andrew Luck 4* Stanford 5Star Jackson 4* Alabama tranfered to Georgia State/left team ???/ 6Landry Jones 4* Oklahoma 7Jacory Harris 4* Miami - Starter 8Jordan Jefferson 4* LSU 9Tyler Wilson 4* Arkansas 10Kyle Parker 4* Clemson Rivals.com dual-threat quarterbacks 2007 1Tyrod Taylor 5* VTech &ndash; Starter 2Cameron Newton 5* Florida to JUCO/ Auburn (Heisman winner) 3Aaron Corp 4* Southern Cal - Starter 4Stephen Garcia 4* South Carolina - washout? 5Willy Korn 4* Clemson - Starter 6Keith Nichol 4* Oklahoma - Bench/transfer? 7Chris Forcier 4* UCLA - Washout/transfer 8Kodi Burns 4*Auburn Moved to WR 9Josh Nesbitt 4* Georgia Tech - starter 10Logan Gray 4* Georgia 11Kellen Kiilsgaard 4* Stanford 12Bradley Starks 4* West Virginia Rivals.com pro-style quarterbacks 2007 1Jimmy Clausen 5* Notre Dame - Starter 2Ryan Mallett 5* Michigan &ndash; Transfer/Starter 3John Brantley 4* Florida 4Mike Paulus 4* North Carolina 5Peter Lalich 4*Virginia 6Pat Bostick 4*Pittsburgh - Bench 7Jarrett Lee 4* LSU - sorta starter 8Robert Marve 4* Miami-FL - washout/transfer 9Steven Threet 4* Georgia Tech &ndash; Sadly, washout/Transfer x2. 10BJ Coleman 4* Tennessee - nothing Rivals.com: Dual-threat quarterbacks 2006 1Tim Tebow 5* Florida (Football Jesus) 2Demetrius Jones 4* Notre Dame Washout/Transfer &ndash; Now a linebacker at NIU 3Jevan Snead 4* Texas &ndash; Transfer/Starter at Ole Miss 4Jake Locker 4* Washington &ndash; Punching bag/Starter 5Jeremy Ricker 4* <!--[endif]-->Maryland 6Austen Arnaud 4* Iowa State 7Garrett Green 4* Southern Cal - bench 8Sherrod Harris 4* Texas - bench 9Antonio Henton 4* Ohio State &ndash; Who? Tranfered to Georgia Southern left after one year. 11Rick Stanzi 3* Iowa &ndash; Starter/Manzi 14Adam Weber 3* Minnesota - Starter 15Nate Davis 3* Ball State - NFL 16Todd Reesing 3* Kansas &ndash; Marky M says Balla. Rivals.com Pro-style quarterbacks 2006 1Matthew Stafford 5* Georgia 1DC 2Mitch Mustain 5* Arkansas Washout 3Isiah Williams 4* Illinois Starter 4Josh Freeman 4* Kansas State Starter/washout/NFL? 5Pat Devlin 4* Penn State washout/transfer 6Kevin Riley 4* California sorta starter 7Neil Caudle 4* Auburn bench 8Chris Smelley 4* South Carolina sorta starter/washout 9Zach Frazer 4* Notre Dame washout 10Tyler Lyon 3* Arizona Bench 11Greg McElroy 3* Alabama &ndash; Starter (sorta) 12Sam Bradford 3* Oklahoma (Heisman winner) Rivals.com Pro-style quarterbacks 2005 1Mark Sanchez 5* Southern Cal - NFL 2Jonathan Crompton 4* Tennessee - sorta starter 3Harrison Beck 4* Nebraska 4Derek Shaw 4* Arizona State 5Willie Tuitama 4* Arizona - One Time Stater/washout 6Rob Schoenhoft 4* Ohio State - bench 7Joe Cox 4* Georgia - bench? 8Arkelon Hall 3* Washington St. 9Domenic Natale 3* Michigan State 10Sean Canfield 3* Oregon State 11Bill Stull 3* Pittsburgh - starter 12Evan Sharpley 3* Notre Dame - Graduated 14Dustin Sherer 3* Wisconsin - sorta starter 15Colt McCoy 3* Texas - Starter Heisman Candidate Rivals.com: Dual-threat quarterbacks 2005 1Ryan Perrilloux 5* LSU - Washout of spectacular fashion 2Jake Christensen 4* Iowa - Washout 3Ike Whitaker 4* Virginia Tech - Washout 4Josh Portis 4* Florida - ? 5Kyle Reed 4* California - ? 6Chase Daniel 4* Missouri - NFL? 7Jimmy Johns 3* Alabama - Proveyor of Fine Powdered Products 10Zac Robinson 3* Oklahoma State - Starter