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Lots of coaching jobs filled today

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methomps said:
tOSU: Ooops, forgot ESPN is still working on this one
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Hey damnit! None of that kinda talk! :biggrin:

Anyway, I thought Washington had started leaning towards Mike Tice the last few days. What do the USC'ers think of the Harris and Willingham hirings? I think Willingham can put Washington back on the map and I liked Harris when he was here as OC.
 
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coaching positions filled

methomps said:
Filled today:

Notre Dame: Charlie Weis
Washington: Tyrone Willingham
Stanford: Walt Harris
Utah State: Brent Guy

Still open:

BYU: Chow tops their list, but may look in-house
Pitt: Wannstedt maybe, Oklahoma's Bo Pelini, Buffalo's Tom Clement
Ole Miss: candidates include USC's Ed Orgeron, Butch Davis, UMiami's Randy Shannon, and others
tOSU: Ooops, forgot ESPN is still working on this one

I miss any?
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Are you serious? Walt Harris really left Pitt for Stanford. I thought he could do a lot better. I think he will eventually make a top top five college team.
 
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The HC of the BCS bound team from the Big Least leaves for Stanford. Think about that for a minute.

If that doesn't send a clear message regarding the future of that particular conference I don't know what else could.
 
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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="yspsctnhdln">Harris hired as Stanford's new football coach</td></tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td></tr></tbody> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td>By JANIE McCAULEY, AP Sports Writer
December 12, 2004 STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Pittsburgh's Walt Harris was hired as Stanford's new football coach Sunday, giving the Cardinal the offensive-minded leader they sought to replace Buddy Teevens.

Stanford spokesman Gary Migdol said Harris accepted the job Sunday, and the school planned an official announcement for Monday.

``He's accepted and will be here tomorrow,'' Migdol said. ``He's in Pittsburgh today.''

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Harris interviewed on campus Friday, two days after Southern California offensive coordinator Norm Chow visited to interview. Athletic director Ted Leland offered Harris the job Saturday, then met with university president John Hennessey and provost John Etchemendy as a formality in the hiring process.

``He interviewed very well and presented himself very well,'' Stanford linebacker Jon Alston told The Associated Press in a phone interview Sunday. ``In my impression, he's done some really impressive things, and hopefully he can continue them at Stanford. I thought he was a coach's coach. The things he was able to accomplish at Pittsburgh speak for themselves.''

Alston has watched Pitt from afar and noticed how Harris turned around the program. Alston believes Leland worked quickly to get a coach hired before the height of the recruiting season.

``I think it worked fine,'' Alston said of the timing.

Leland said he wouldn't spend a fortune on his football coach. Harris met last week with Pittsburgh athletic director Jeff Long, but the school didn't offer him an extension for more than the close to $600,000 he was earning. Pitt sophomore quarterback Tyler Palko campaigned for the school to keep him.

Leland went with the coach he knows -- he hired Harris to be head coach at Pacific in 1989.

Leland searched for a coach with a strong offensive background after Stanford struggled to score during Teevens' tenure. The Cardinal went 4-7 the past two seasons, losing their last five games this year. They were 0-13 down the stretch the past three seasons leading to Teevens' firing last month.

Harris, Pitt's eighth-year coach, has plenty of connections to the Bay Area. He grew up in South San Francisco and attended college at Pacific in Stockton, where he also began his college coaching career directing the secondary.

He coached the linebackers at California from 1974-77 and made stops at Air Force, Michigan State, Illinois and Tennessee before taking over at Pacific for three seasons. The school eventually dropped the program.

Harris was Ohio State's quarterbacks coach in 1995-96 before going to Pitt.

Chow has directed the top-ranked Trojans' offense for four years.

The 58-year-old Chow hasn't been a head coach since 1970-72 at Waialua High in Hawaii. Chow, who is of Chinese descent, has talked about wanting to be the first Asian-American to be head coach at a major college.

``It was a win-win situation for the university,'' Alston said. ``I think what it came down to was head coaching experience.''

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Penguin-BUCK said:
Are you serious? Walt Harris really left Pitt for Stanford. I thought he could do a lot better. I think he will eventually make a top top five college team.
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Walt Harris is an excellent choice for Stanford. He is a Bay-area guy with roots all over North/Central California, including from his days coaching at University of the Pacific in Stockton, before they folded their football program. He will get the recruits to play in his system and will help move Stanford into the middle to upper-middle of the pack in the Pac-10. No way are they going to go toe-to-toe with SCum-West every year, but him and Jeff Tedford (Cal) will scheme interesting game plans in their annual matchup against the boys from Compton, and each other.
 
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should we even feel sorry for Ty Willingham? let's see he goes from ND to UW:

Better city
Better/smarter/more patient alumni
Better ability to get blue chip recruits
Better recent tradition (UW won a more recent national title and has finished in the top 5 recently as well)
 
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tibor75 said:
should we even feel sorry for Ty Willingham? let's see he goes from ND to UW:

Better city
Better/smarter/more patient alumni
Better ability to get blue chip recruits
Better recent tradition (UW won a more recent national title and has finished in the top 5 recently as well)
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plus less strict academic restrictions for admission
 
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