Coach tells players he&#39;s not going to Mississippi
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San Francisco 49ers coach Dennis Erickson informed this players during a Wednesday morning team meeting that he will not leave to become the new head coach at the University of Mississippi.
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Mississippi State made headlines last year in hiring the Southeastern Conference&#39;s first black football coach, but Sylvester Croom&#39;s addition didn&#39;t move the needle on the meager number of minorities coaching big-time college football.
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JACKSONVILLE - It&#39;s not about me, Ron Zook told his players prior to the one game that could make his firing look like a mistake.
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This Thursday&#39;s football game between California and Southern Mississippi, which was scheduled to be played before a national television audience on ESPN at MM Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Miss.
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Former Florida Coach Steve Spurrier said Thursday he will not be a candidate to replace Ron Zook as coach of the Gators. &quot;I have informed Jeremy Foley, our athletic director, that
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Thirty-six Florida State players won't be going to the Dec. 31 Music City Bowl against Kentucky because of an academic cheating scandal, other violations of team rules or injuries.
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The coach told ESPN&#39;s Chris Mortenson that he had reconsidered after originially withdrawing his name from consideration last week and would return to his alma mater.
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New Mississippi football coach Ed Orgeron answers a reporter&#39;s question, in Oxford, Miss., Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004, moments after he was introduced as the new head coach.
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OXFORD, Miss. Dec 1, 2004 - Mississippi coach David Cutcliffe was fired Wednesday after the team&#39;s worst season in 10 years, a source close to the program told The Associated Press.
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Don&#39;t count San Francisco 49ers coach Dennis Erickson out of Ole Miss&#39;s hunt for a new coach just yet. On Tuesday, Erickson met with Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone and chancellor Robert Khayat for two hours in a Santa Clara, Calif.
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BOISE, Idaho - Fresno State coach Pat Hill cringes when anyone applies the &quot;mid-major&quot; label to his Bulldogs or the Western Athletic Conference.
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Coach Mike Mularkey knows the word, and has heard it raised around town during the Buffalo Bills&#39; solid stretch run. Yet he refuses to even whisper it.
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Mississippi State&#39;s Shane Power (21) drives past New Orleans guard Todd Bostic (11) in the first half of their game in New Orleans Monday night, Dec. 13, 2004.
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Wade Phillips hates being asked how he's going to handle Terrell Owens &#151; or any other player. "First of all, I don't handle players," he said every time that word came up. "I work with them."
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Navy coach Paul Johnson downplayed the differences between his players in their dress blues and those sitting just a few feet away wearing oversized New Mexico sweat suits.
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refrain from stealing a glance or two at the mammoth Michigan Stadium scoreboards during Saturday&#39;s game against Iowa. &quot;Don&#39;t tell the coaches,&quot; he said afterward, putting a finger to his lips and smiling.
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Games like these are why coaches don&#39;t carry firearms. You play good defense, hold an offensive, blistering team under 80 points.