The University of Michigan announced today on its official sports site and Twitter feed that it had hired former San Diego State football coach Brady Hoke as its new football coach.
Hoke, who most recently spent six years turning around the Ball State football program and two years as head football coach at San Diego State, [...]
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You can officially forget any talk of Jim McElwain leaving ‘Bama to go to Colorado. After McElwain interviewed for the job, Colorado has apparently gone into the NFL and hired Washington Redskins assistant Jon Embree:
[Eric] Bieniemy will serve as the coordinator for his good friend Jon Embree, who is expected to finalize an agreement to become the school’s new football coach this weekend. Embree is currently on the coaching staff of the Washington Redskins.
There are still a lot of vacancies out there, and clearly McElwain wants to be a head coach somewhere, so it’s still no guarantee that he will return to Tuscaloosa next season. You can, however, cross Boulder off the list of possible destinations for his services.
DENTON, Texas (AP) -Dan McCarney was a young assistant at Iowa when Hayden Fry left North Texas to become the Hawkeyes’ new head coach.
Now more than three decades later, McCarney has been hired as the new coach at North Texas, giving the Mean Green a leader with plenty of college experience to rebuild a struggling program.
“It’s amazing how this thing goes full circle,” McCarney said during his introduction Tuesday. “When (coach Fry) came to Iowa in 1979 … for the first few days, first few weeks, first few months, all we watched was North Texas football tape, to learn and to see and to watch, this is the system, this is what we’re going to do. ”
The Mean Green had become a Top 20 team during Fry’s six seasons (1973-78).
North Texas hasn’t been ranked since, is coming off six consecutive losing seasons and will now turn to McCarney, the Florida assistant and former Iowa State head coach, to help recapture some of that glory.
McCarney’s arrival came six weeks after former standout high school coach Todd Dodge was fired following a failed 3 1/2-season experiment on the NCAA FBS level.
McCarney has been in college coaching for 34 years, the last three as defensive line coach at Florida. He was head coach at Iowa State from 1995-2006, where he took over a dismal program that he took to five bowl games over a six-season span from 2000-05.
“When I got to Iowa State, they were winless,” McCarney said. “The difference we had, the facilities weren’t in place. … Going through those situations, it helps prepare you when you into the next one.”
The news conference at UNT was held in the athletic department building next to where a $ 78 million, 30,000-seat stadium is being built and will open next fall.
North Texas was 3-9 this season, its sixth consecutive losing record since winning four Sun Belt Conference titles in a row and going to the New Orleans Bowl each of those seasons. The Mean Green were 1-6 when Dodge was fired.
Dodge finished with a 6-37 record. He was hired before the 2007 season after going 79-1 and winning four state championships in his final five years at nearby Southlake Carroll High School, making North Texas the first upper-division school to elevate a head coach straight from high school since Notre Dame with Gerry Faust in 1981.
DENTON, Texas (AP) -Dan McCarney was a young assistant at Iowa when Hayden Fry left North Texas to become the Hawkeyes’ new head coach.
Now more than three decades later, McCarney has been hired as the new coach at North Texas, giving the Mean Green a leader with plenty of college experience to rebuild a struggling program.
“It’s amazing how this thing goes full circle,” McCarney said during his introduction Tuesday. “When (coach Fry) came to Iowa in 1979 … for the first few days, first few weeks, first few months, all we watched was North Texas football tape, to learn and to see and to watch, this is the system, this is what we’re going to do. ”
The Mean Green had become a Top 20 team during Fry’s six seasons (1973-78).
North Texas hasn’t been ranked since, is coming off six consecutive losing seasons and will now turn to McCarney, the Florida assistant and former Iowa State head coach, to help recapture some of that glory.
McCarney’s arrival came six weeks after former standout high school coach Todd Dodge was fired following a failed 3 1/2-season experiment on the NCAA FBS level.
McCarney has been in college coaching for 34 years, the last three as defensive line coach at Florida. He was head coach at Iowa State from 1995-2006, where he took over a dismal program that he took to five bowl games over a six-season span from 2000-05.
“When I got to Iowa State, they were winless,” McCarney said. “The difference we had, the facilities weren’t in place. … Going through those situations, it helps prepare you when you into the next one.”
The news conference at UNT was held in the athletic department building next to where a $ 78 million, 30,000-seat stadium is being built and will open next fall.
North Texas was 3-9 this season, its sixth consecutive losing record since winning four Sun Belt Conference titles in a row and going to the New Orleans Bowl each of those seasons. The Mean Green were 1-6 when Dodge was fired.
Dodge finished with a 6-37 record. He was hired before the 2007 season after going 79-1 and winning four state championships in his final five years at nearby Southlake Carroll High School, making North Texas the first upper-division school to elevate a head coach straight from high school since Notre Dame with Gerry Faust in 1981.
Tiki Barber has decided to get a little professional help for his dinged-up image, hiring 5WPR to “spin his relationship with blond former TV intern Traci Johnson,” according to the New York Post.
Barber, who left his wife for Johnson, was fired from NBC (both working as a “Today Show” correspondent and for their NFL coverage) in June.
Recently, Johnson wrote a poorly-received “memoir”on Crushable.com about her and Barber’s relationship:
I knew that his relationship had deteriorated before my relationship with him was even a thought in his mind. I knew that I was never Tiki’s babysitter or that he “lavished” me with expensive gifts or snuck into my college dorm room (I lived on an all girl’s floor with a key swipe entrance … think how difficult it would be to sneak a 5′10, 200-pound, black man into that environment?).
According to the Post, this would be Barber’s third PR company. The following quote is evidence that they have their work cut out for them:
Sources said he’s “paid for a professional photo shoot and is offering it to publications, despite the fact that he’s claiming poverty and can’t pay Ginny the settlement she wants.” Johnson penned a blog on a Web site for young women last week, defending her affair with Tiki. Barber’s rep didn’t get back to us.