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Proven HC? Who is that? Fisher...no HC experience Dodge...3 HS state championships Harbaugh...3 years HC non-scholarship football

Don't do it. Fans can take losing a winning coach personal. Like a parent that has a kid coming up that wants him to stay as coach. Look at it this way, say Dodge comes to UNT and does well and Baylor hires him away. At our Bowl game you see Baylor fans with a sign "Todd Dodge - Head Coach of Baylor". Would you be happy to see them there?

That's a point in Dodge's favor. He has already coached at North Texas, he knows exactly what it involves and what we are about. Add the future new stadium and it's a very attractive job.

humm... a little "I'll hire you now, you remember us later" thing going on there??

I'm surprised he didn't bring up the travel expense issue being in the WAC vs. another nearby conference to save funds.

Someone by poster named "Pressbox" also posted on the M&G board that Dodge will be the coach...so it must be true, right?

Would you hire DD after he pulls that stunt?

12-14 is about the time the before holiday recruiting period is over. Could a person be named lone finalist and begin recruiting?

Bicknell is fired at Louisiana Tech RUSTON, La. - Louisiana Tech fired football coach Jack Bicknell on Monday following a 3-10 season. Bicknell leaves after eight seasons and an overall record of 42-53. "This was a very difficult decision," Tech Athletic Director Jim Oakes said in a news release. "Jack Bicknell has led this football program with class and integrity. He is an outstanding coach who has achieved success here. Unfortunately, a change has to be made with the direction of our football program." During his tenure at Tech, Bicknell led the Bulldogs to the program's first Associated Press Top 25 ranking in 1999 when the program went 8-3 and recorded a 29-28 win over No. 18 Alabama, the eventual SEC Champion. Two years later, Bicknell led Tech to the 2001 Western Athletic Conference championship and an appearance in the Humanitarian Bowl.

$325,000 for the New Orleans Bowl? That won't help the league image any.

He had some positive things to say, but "the best job in the SBC" sounds almost like a back-handed compliment to me, is it? It's like "you're the best of the worst conference in the country". And 5-35 at Army? No thanks. Next.....

Yes, it was their 2005 game I was thinking of vs. Mizzou.

Sunday, December 3, 2006 Kelly new UC coach BY BILL KOCH | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER The University of Cincinnati will name Central Michigan coach Brian Kelly as its new head football coach at a 4 p.m. news conference Monday. UC athletic director Mike Thomas was in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., on Sunday to interview Kelly. Kelly was confirmed as the new head coach at about 7:15 p.m. by UC associate athletic director Mike Waddell. Kelly’s Central Michigan team was 9-4 this year and will play in the Motor City Bowl on Dec. 26. He was 19-16 in three seasons at Central Michigan. The Chippewas were 6-5 in 2005, their first winning season since 1998. He was hired by UC less than one week after Mark Dantonio left after three years to become the head coach at Michigan State. In fact, he met with his Central Michigan players at a 5 p.m. to inform them of his decision, about the same time Dantonio was attending the UC football banquet. “He’s a proven commodity as a winner,” Waddell said of Kelly. “It was a pretty expedient search. Mike got what he was looking for out of the search – a proven winner. And he wants to be a Bearcat.” Kelly won two NCAA Division II national titles at Grand Valley State and was 118-35-2 in 13 seasons there. He was one of the finalists for the Michigan State job that Dantonio landed last Monday.

Ask her if she will help by publically supporting the campaign for a new football stadium.

ULM with their "home" game against Arkansas in Little Rock and ASU with their "home" game with Mizzou in Kansas City are both bogus averages. What about our "home" game in Austin this year with Texas?

Actually Troy is co-champs of the Belt with the MUTS. The MUTS are getting rings again too but no trip to New Orleans (again). As a consolation they do get a dome game in Detroit. Troy vs. Rice and MUTS vs. Central Michigan...yummm...

UTEP = 5-7 this season. Get back to us when 9-3.

Who said Fisher was out now? RV just said he didn't have an interview this weekend, maybe Monday? And I'm not sold on Eric Price at all. What has he done besides getting jobs on his Dad's staffs? QB coach a couple years at Cal-Poly and Northern Arizona, QB coach with Dad at Wash. St., one year as QB coach at the Jets (why not longer?), off a couple years, and now at UTEP since 2004 with Daddy again. This is quality?

Does Vito ever do any research on his own? Why didn't he call Fisher to see what his interest in NT may be? Or any of the other candidates? If I was RV I would also deny everything to Vito and tell him to get his own sources. Clueless!

Maybe he's not the best qualified for an interview? I've only seen Fisher as confirmed for an interview, and Chambers was rumored to have had one. I'm interested but they haven't contacted me either.

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I like the apparent upward direction of things. I was concerned for several months when it seemed like the stadium campaign was on hold with no info but then the survey came out and the large donation given as seed money for it. Then the football program appeared to be floundering when RV pulled the trigger and now looks like we may be interviewing a major candidate. Surely an upgrade in expectations from fans and donor$, attendance, facilities, and conference will be on the future agenda if this continues. I'm ready...bring it!

This doesn't even include the expected opening at West Virginia. _____ The Cincinnati Post is reporting today that University of Cincinnati Director of Athletics Mike Thomas and Deputy Director of Athletics Bob Arkeilpane flew Thursday to Baton Rouge as their search for a new head football coach intensified. LSU defensive coordinator Bo Pelini, an Ohio native, and LSU offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher, a former Cincinnati assistant coach, are reportedly on the Bearcats’ shopping list. Both have said they would like to be head coaches in the right situation. Neither could not be reached for comment late Thursday. Thomas refused to comment on any specific candidates. Thomas and Arkeilpane also flew Thursday to a North Carolina airport near East Carolina University, whose defensive coordinator Greg Hudson, is a Cincinnati native and potential candidate, the newspaper is reporting. The paper said Cincinnati defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi interviewed Wednesday. Pelini, in his second season at LSU, has been mentioned as a possible candidate for jobs at Arizona State, Cincinnati and Tulane. Reports prominently mentioned Pelini as a candidate at Michigan State before that school hired Mark Dantonio from Cincinnati. Fisher, in his seventh season at LSU, has been mentioned in connection with openings at North Carolina State, North Texas and as a possible offensive coordinator at Florida State. Fisher was a Cincinnati assistant coach in 1999 before coming to LSU in 2000. ESPN analyst and former college coach Lou Holtz said Thursday night Pelini would be a good fit at Arizona State. ESPN.com columnist Ivan Maisel wrote the same day about how Fisher’s ties to Florida State coach Bobby Bowden give him a foot in the door there. Tom Dienhart of The Sporting News wrote a similar note in a column for his Web site. LSU coach Les Miles was also unavailable for comment. Earlier this week, Miles dismissed a hypothetical question about whether Fisher or Pelini would be welcome to coach for LSU in a bowl game if they’d already been hired by another school for 2007. “You know what?” Miles said, “I don’t want to speculate on what would be the circumstances there in any way. I can tell you that both guys certainly have opportunities to be head coaches, and eventually at some point and time in their career will make that true, make that happen for themselves. “The great news about it: This is a great school and a great opportunity. You want to come and pursue championships and to achieve. There would be a lot of really fine coaches looking for an opportunity here, so we’ll have to turn our attentions elsewhere, but we like those guys. We want them to stay.” Thomas conceded Cincinnati must be aware of the many openings around the country for head coaches and can't drag its feet. "We need to be cognizant of that, but we also need to be more concerned with the pace we want to move at for our own needs for recruiting and making sure we get a face on the program as soon as possible," Thomas

...thus the need for the BOR Meeting coaching inclusion maybe?

It was not intended to make it personal..sorry. But what you think and what I think and what others think on the board is what makes the speculation interesting...and if we only both knew DD would tank after 2004.... The point is most 1-A head coaches last only 3-5 years in their current jobs, so who's next?