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Ken Niumatalolo, 2nd Year As Head Coach At Naval

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http://www.navysports.com/sports/m-footbl/...lolo_ken00.html

Navy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo had one of the most successful first seasons as a head coach in school history. He is the first coach to lead Navy to a bowl game in his inaugural season and, thanks to a 33-27 victory over Air Force and a 34-0 win over Army, he became just the second Service Academy coach to win the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy in his first year.

In routing Mizzouri today Navy finished only their 3rd ever 10 win season with a 2nd year head coach.

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Impressivie, even for a Coach who follows someone who left for greener pastures in Paul Johnson. He by no means left that program in shambles.

No, as neither did most of the outgoing coaches around the country. In fact, I can only think of one coach who took over a program in "shambles" and that was Forest Gregg at SMU.

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No, as neither did most of the outgoing coaches around the country. In fact, I can only think of one coach who took over a program in "shambles" and that was Forest Gregg at SMU.

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When Stoops took over OU they were in "shambles", at lest be their standards. John Blake had 3 straight losing seasons (3-8,4-8, and 5-6). It was OU's first time in like 80 years OU had 3 straight losing seasons. In stoops first season, OU went 7-5, with a trip to the Independence Bowl. They lost to Ol' Miss 25-27. In 2000, we all know they went 13-0 and won the National Title.

Stoops won with Blake's players in his first year, and won the National Title in year 2.

To be honest, I think our 97 team could have beat OU's 97 team. They were only 4-8.

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You guys really want to talk about shambles ? I mean ...real shambles ? How about Jack Lengyel who took over Marshall U who didn't even have a team after the tragic plane crash killed almost everyone involved in the football program in 1970

His 1st 3 years without his players , without any returning starters , without any upperclassman , without nothing he managed to go 8 - 23 in his 1st 3 seasons.

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You guys really want to talk about shambles ? I mean ...real shambles ? How about Jack Lengyel who took over Marshall U who didn't even have a team after the tragic plane crash killed almost everyone involved in the football program in 1970

His 1st 3 years without his players , without any returning starters , without any upperclassman , without nothing he managed to go 8 - 23 in his 1st 3 seasons.

Meh. His assistant coach was just happy to be off the island.

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