New Dline Coach

Harry · February 2, 2009

http://startelegramsports.typepad.com/colleges/

bstnsportsfan3 · February 2, 2009

wow...seems like a good pick with a TON of experience...Go Mean Green! welcome coach Mike Nelson!

SUMG · February 2, 2009

Welcome aboard Coach Nelson:

http://goaztecs.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/m...son_mike00.html

Mean Green 93-98 · February 2, 2009

Looks like a pretty good hire, as far as I can tell. Plenty of experience.

Birthdate: October 8, 1947

Hometown: Chicago, Ill. (St. Laurence HS)

Alma Mater: Dayton, 1969 (B.S. in physical education); Southern Illinois, 1970 (M.S. in physical education).

Playing Experience: Dayton, defensive back, four-year letterwinner (1965-69)

Coaching Experience:

2007 Assistant coach, Hamilton Tiger-Cats - CFL (defensive line)

1997-2006 Assistant coach, Iowa State (defensive line)

1996 Assistant coach, Oregon State (defensive line)

1993-95 Assistant coach, Rutgers (defensive line)

1992 Assistant coach, Edmonton Eskimos - CFL (defensive front)

1990-92 Assistant coach, Stanford (defensive line)

1989 Assistant coach, Kansas State (defensive line)

1987-88 Assistant coach, San Diego State (defensive line, inside linebackers)

1985-86 Assistant coach, Missouri (defensive line)

1983-84 Assistant coach, Edmonton Eskimos - CFL (defensive front)

1978-82 Assistant coach, Wisconsin (outside linebackers)

1977-78 Assistant coach, Ball State (linebackers)

1975-76 Assistant coach, Virginia (secondary)

1973-74 Assistant coach, Dayton (defensive line, linebackers)

1972 Assistant coach, Norfolk State (defensive coordinator, linebackers)

1971 Assistant coach, Toledo Central Catholic High School (def./off. Backfield, wide receivers)

1969-70 Freshman team assistant coach, Southern Illinois (defensive coordinator)

Here's the release when San Diego State hired him.

KRAM1 · February 2, 2009

Looks like another good hire by Dodge and his staff. May be "older" than most at 60 or 61, but looks like a ton of experience at the college level. Welcome Coach Nelson and don't pay attention to all the negative "stuff" you read on GMG.com. UNT is a program heading in a positive direction. I am sure you can help lead us to many victories in season's to come...starting in 2009! GO MEAN GREEN!

Green P1 · February 2, 2009

Looks like another good hire by Dodge and his staff. May be "older" than most at 60 or 61, but looks like a ton of experience at the college level. Welcome Coach Nelson and don't pay attention to all the negative "stuff" you read on GMG.com. UNT is a program heading in a positive direction. I am sure you can help lead us to many victories in season's to come...starting in 2009! GO MEAN GREEN!

And the first even remotely negative post in this thread comes from...............wait for it................YOU.

Edited February 2, 2009 by Green P1

UNT90 · February 2, 2009

Welcome Coach Nelson and don't pay attention to all the negative "stuff" you read on GMG.com. UNT is a program heading in a positive direction.

I doubt that he knows of or is concerned with the existence of this board.

UNT90 · February 2, 2009

Trader!

Green Mean · February 2, 2009

Looks like another good hire by Dodge and his staff. May be "older" than most at 60 or 61, but looks like a ton of experience at the college level. Welcome Coach Nelson and don't pay attention to all the negative "stuff" you read on GMG.com. UNT is a program heading in a positive direction. I am sure you can help lead us to many victories in season's to come...starting in 2009! GO MEAN GREEN!

In the end we are still a team that is 3-21 in the last two seasons. Yes we still do suck until proven otherwise on the field.

Smitty · February 2, 2009

I don't get that joke.

Sincerely,

Tom Servo

SilverEagle · February 2, 2009

Welcome aboard Coach Nelson!

kj86 · February 2, 2009

Should we be concerned that he only manages to stay on for a year or two at each stop?

adman · February 2, 2009

Should we be concerned that he only manages to stay on for a year or two at each stop?

Minus the 10 spent at Iowa State.

kj86 · February 2, 2009

Minus the 10 spent at Iowa State.

OK, I feel better now. I didn't notice that. As you were.

GrandGreen · February 2, 2009

Assistant coaches have to be nomadic to survive. Negative alert, do not read further if offended by semi rational conclusions!

There are hundreds of assistant coaching candidates available with college experience, there are thousands of coaches that would like to coach at the highest level of college football. So there are always good choices for even programs as down as NT is right down. However, just like recruiting, NT is not going to be able to pick from the top shelf. If being in the Belt and not being able to offer anything approaching salaries that are now prevalent in the FB division is not a big enough hurdle, any position on the current NT football coaching staff has got to be viewed as very risky at this point. Up and comming coaches with college experience are just not going to go to this program. So your choices are going to be limited primarily to coaches wanted to move up to the next level with little or no experience or unemployed coaches on the down slope of their career.

Under those circumstances, it looks like Nelson is a good choice. He certainly has the experience not only to coach but to work well with Deloach and Dodge.

eulessismore · February 3, 2009

I'm glad we hired someone with the credentials of Mike Nelson; it sounds like TD got good advice and followed it on this one. He seems like someone who will stay at one place for a while given the opportunity, and when he did (at Iowa State), showed results.

ADLER · February 3, 2009

Is this that Mike Nelson guy that all the girls think is so incredibly hot?

http://cdn.harpercollins.com/harperimages/author/19613.jpg

SilverEagle · February 3, 2009

Assistant coaches have to be nomadic to survive. Negative alert, do not read further if offended by semi rational conclusions!
There are hundreds of assistant coaching candidates available with college experience, there are thousands of coaches that would like to coach at the highest level of college football. So there are always good choices for even programs as down as NT is right down. However, just like recruiting, NT is not going to be able to pick from the top shelf. If being in the Belt and not being able to offer anything approaching salaries that are now prevalent in the FB division is not a big enough hurdle, any position on the current NT football coaching staff has got to be viewed as very risky at this point. Up and comming coaches with college experience are just not going to go to this program. So your choices are going to be limited primarily to coaches wanted to move up to the next level with little or no experience or unemployed coaches on the down slope of their career.
Under those circumstances, it looks like Nelson is a good choice. He certainly has the experience not only to coach but to work well with Deloach and Dodge.

It all depends on what level they are "up and coming" from. I would guess that any "up and coming" D-II or 1-AA head coach would love the opportunity to be the head coach here. Baliff is going to get hired away from Rice one of these days. I just wish it had been us that he was getting hired away from.

For future reference, our administration should profile Coach Baliff, and his early career, so that we know what sort of "up and comer" to hire next.