USD's Harbaugh headed to UNT?

[Retro]

Heard some interesting info this morning about Jim Harbaugh being offered to coach at North Texas. Will try to find the print story on this..

[jmuroller]

footballscoop.com says JMU's Mickey Matthews is also a name out there. Who knows?

[89Hen]

UNT = coaching suicide IMO

[Eaglegus2]

Someone put Brian Van Gorder's name in the hat.:nod: xlolx xlolx

[jmuroller]

UNT = coaching suicide IMO


No way. They have good facilities, GREAT state to recruit in, and an easy conference to play in. Someone can easily win at UNT build that program into a consistent 8+ wins a year team. If someone was to win at UNT they would have lots of opportunities to move up to a big time BCS school.

[ToreroTime]

There is no way in hell Harbaugh would take that job. North Texas is in the worst conference in I-A and is the at best the 5th best program in the state. If a big time offer doesnt come after this season I see him staying one more year and leave after Johnson's seniors year.

[Mr. C]

Among the head coaching alumni at North Texas are Hayden Fry and Appalachian State's very own Jerry Moore. It has been a good stepping stone for some. Fry went from North Texas to Iowa. Moore went from North Texas to Texas Tech.

[Mr. C]

There is no way in hell Harbaugh would take that job. North Texas is in the worst conference in I-A and is the at best the 5th best program in the state. If a big time offer doesnt come after this season I see him staying one more year and leave after Johnson's seniors year.
Seems like Harbaugh was talking to people about the Buffalo job last year. If he was interesting in Buffalo, one of the absolute dregs of I-A, then North Texas would be a hundred times better.

[GOTOREROS]

Harbaugh will not be going to UNT or another school like that - trust me. Take a read from today's Union-Tribune....

"Harbaugh attractive to big-time programs": http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/usd/20061116-9999-1s16harb-jp.html

[youwouldno]

UNT would be an alright position for Harbaugh. No chance he ends up somewhere like Michigan State or Virginia.

[89Hen]

Among the head coaching alumni at North Texas are Hayden Fry and Appalachian State's very own Jerry Moore. It has been a good stepping stone for some. Fry went from North Texas to Iowa. Moore went from North Texas to Texas Tech.
Hayden Fry?! What, 30 years ago? I'm assuming Moore also was at UNT when they were I-AA? I'm just not sure Darrell Dickey is going to be too hot a commodity this off-season. I could be very wrong.

[OrneryAggie]

There is no way in hell Harbaugh would take that job. North Texas is in the worst conference in I-A and is the at best the 5th best program in the state. If a big time offer doesnt come after this season I see him staying one more year and leave after Johnson's seniors year.

When Harbaugh took the USD job how would you rank the PFL in IAA or USD among the 4 Cali IAA's? You gotta start somewhere, right?

That said San Diego is a much nicer place than Denton and I doubt Harbaugh gives UNT more than a passing thought.

[UNHFan99]

I think it depends more on the money and how much the school is willing to invest into the program to compete with the other 1-A's in the state. If they give Harbaugh and his agent the right deal and incentives he will be out of USD. He went to that program to build it up. Say next year USD does get a decently tough schedule and goes 8 and 3. The coaching offers might not be the same. Strike while the iron is hot.

[UCABEARS75]

UNT = coaching suicide IMO

Amen, furthermore

SBC=coaching suicide

[bcrawf]

Jim Harbaugh's name keeps coming up with the Iowa State job. Not a great one, but if you can win there, you can win anywhere!!

[UNHFan99]

Who would want to coach at a school that names there new athletic building after the coach they just fired!!! hahahaha

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2664905

[NorthDakotaBison]

Jim Harbaugh's name keeps coming up with the Iowa State job. Not a great one, but if you can win there, you can win anywhere!!


that's hilarious.

[HI54UNI]

Iowa State = Coaching suicide

[GOTOREROS]

that's hilarious.

By hilarious do you mean Harbaugh coaching a I-A team? Get ready to laugh because if not next year, he will be in 2008. Personally, I will be crying because the guy can flat out coach, and USD will miss him. You may not like the guy personally, but from a football coaching perspective he is great. Just my opinion...

[JamesHarbaugh]

I want to coach at Dixie State, followed by USC.

[Mr. C]

Hayden Fry?! What, 30 years ago? I'm assuming Moore also was at UNT when they were I-AA? I'm just not sure Darrell Dickey is going to be too hot a commodity this off-season. I could be very wrong.
Is 30 years ago too long to mention? Hayden Fry left North Texas for Iowa after the 1978 season. Moore, then the offensive coordinator at Nebraska and a longtime assistant for Fry before coaching for Tom Osborne, was fry's replacement. At the time that Fry and Moore were there, North Texas was trying to work its way into the Southwest Conference. They were very much I-A.

[89Hen]

Is 30 years ago too long to mention?
Absolutely. UNT was a DI team playing in a VERY different CF world.

1976 Bowls
BlueBonnet Bowl
Citrus Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Gator Bowl
Liberty Bowl
Orange Bowl
Peach Bowl
Rose Bowl
Sun Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Sun Bowl

Pitt was the #1 team in the nation, we had the Big 8, Pac 8, SWC....

52 North Texas
54 Miami (Florida)
61 Purdue
64 Wisconsin
70 Florida State
71 Georgia Tech
73 Washington
74 Michigan State
77 Iowa
78 Clemson
79 North Carolina State
80 Auburn
89 Louisville
95 Fresno State
100 Washington State
102 Kansas State
104 Oregon
113 Utah
115 Oregon State
118 Virginia

Iowa was a step down for Fry.

[jmuroller]

Absolutely. UNT was a DI team playing in a VERY different CF world.

1976 Bowls
BlueBonnet Bowl
Citrus Bowl
Fiesta Bowl
Gator Bowl
Liberty Bowl
Orange Bowl
Peach Bowl
Rose Bowl
Sun Bowl
Sugar Bowl
Sun Bowl

Pitt was the #1 team in the nation, we had the Big 8, Pac 8, SWC....

52 North Texas
54 Miami (Florida)
61 Purdue
64 Wisconsin
70 Florida State
71 Georgia Tech
73 Washington
74 Michigan State
77 Iowa
78 Clemson
79 North Carolina State
80 Auburn
89 Louisville
95 Fresno State
100 Washington State
102 Kansas State
104 Oregon
113 Utah
115 Oregon State
118 Virginia

Iowa was a step down for Fry.

I don't think you can call Iowa a step down from UNT...Iowa was just in a down swing. Any time you go to a University OF school you are doing something right. Especially in a state like Iowa. I guarantee his salary went up when he took the Iowa job.

[89Hen]

I don't think you can call Iowa a step down from UNT...Iowa was just in a down swing. Any time you go to a University OF school you are doing something right. Especially in a state like Iowa. I guarantee his salary went up when he took the Iowa job.
104 Oregon
113 Utah
118 Virginia

Those would be University OF's.:twocents:

And I'll keep that in mind next time the University of Delaware is looking for a coach. Frank Beamer, Pete Carroll, Tuberville... all would jump at the chance to coach at the U OF D. :p

[Mr. C]

Hayden Fry actually left SMU (not too many years after the Mustangs appeared in the Cotton Bowl) to go to North Texas.

[BDKJMU]

footballscoop.com says JMU's Mickey Matthews is also a name out there. Who knows?

I didn't see this message string had already started before I started a new string with this:
http://www.dnronline.com/sports_details.php?AID=7344&CHID=3

[Retro]

That's right it was a different world and you forgot the Independence Bowl, which was the first independence bowl that Mcneese beat Tulsa in.

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2 USC (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/usc.htm) 1.718 11 1 0 0.917 -0.201 50.7 52.6 0 0
3 Maryland (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/md.htm) 1.621 11 1 0 0.646 -0.027 48.1 54.3 0 0
4 Texas Tech (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/tt.htm) 1.489 10 2 0 0.671 -0.103 51.8 53.2 0 0
5 Georgia (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/ga.htm) 1.446 10 2 0 0.790 -0.268 54.8 53.9 0 0
6 San Diego St (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/sdst.htm) 1.429 10 1 0 0.499 -0.061 41.8 49.2 0 0
7 Oklahoma (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/ok.htm) 1.382 9 2 1 0.673 -0.173 52.9 55.0 0 0
8 Ohio St (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/ohst.htm) 1.374 9 2 1 0.712 -0.221 55.6 53.0 0 0
9 Texas AM (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/txam.htm) 1.350 10 2 0 0.484 -0.054 47.8 55.7 0 0
10 Houston (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/hou.htm) 1.331 10 2 0 0.785 -0.376 52.6 54.2 0 0
11 Yale (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/yale.htm) 1.300 6 1 0 0.406 -0.024 42.9 49.8 2 0
12 Michigan (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/mi.htm) 1.297 10 2 0 0.630 -0.252 49.2 53.0 0 0
13 Mississippi St (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/msst.htm) 1.288 8 2 0 0.601 -0.193 50.9 54.1 1 0
14 Rutgers (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/rut.htm) 1.282 7 0 0 0.305 -0.000 27.4 56.5 4 0
15 UCLA (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/ucla.htm) 1.230 9 2 1 0.432 -0.078 49.3 50.9 0 0
16 Kentucky (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/ky.htm) 1.180 8 4 0 0.610 -0.189 58.8 52.1 0 0
17 Florida (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/fla.htm) 1.176 8 4 0 0.612 -0.196 59.9 52.2 0 0
18 Notre Dame (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/nd.htm) 1.166 9 3 0 0.515 -0.187 51.9 53.0 0 0
19 Oklahoma St (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/okst.htm) 1.159 9 3 0 0.739 -0.421 55.1 53.7 0 0
20 Alabama (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/al.htm) 1.092 9 3 0 0.534 -0.280 50.4 54.2 0 0
21 Cincinnati (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/cin.htm) 1.091 8 3 0 0.336 -0.066 48.8 53.5 0 0
22 Nebraska (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/ne.htm) 1.074 9 3 1 0.558 -0.297 51.7 55.2 0 0
23 Iowa St (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/iwst.htm) 1.071 8 3 0 0.494 -0.246 51.2 53.9 0 0
24 Colorado (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/co.htm) 1.043 8 4 0 0.615 -0.332 56.2 55.7 0 0
25 East Carolina (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/ec.htm) 0.971 8 2 0 0.580 -0.484 48.0 52.1 1 0
26 Baylor (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/baylor.htm) 0.970 7 3 1 0.287 -0.093 49.2 54.5 0 0
27 Louisiana Lafayette (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/lalaf.htm) 0.961 9 2 0 0.518 -0.461 44.9 50.1 0 0
28 Missouri (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/mo.htm) 0.913 6 5 0 0.980 -0.722 66.3 53.8 0 0
29 Brown (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/brown.htm) 0.848 7 1 0 0.524 -0.631 37.7 51.8 1 0
30 McNeese St (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/mcnst.htm) 0.845 10 2 0 0.587 -0.655 45.1 49.9 0 0
31 Tulsa (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/tulsa.htm) 0.642 7 4 1 0.391 -0.458 51.5 49.5 0 0
32 Ohio (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/oh.htm) 0.572 6 4 0 0.329 -0.432 49.1 50.8 1 0
33 Dartmouth (http://www.mcubed.net/ncaaf/1976/dart.htm) 0.569 5 3 0 0.103 -0.243 41.0 51.4 1 0

[Mike Johnson]

I want to coach at Dixie State, followed by USC.

Wow, but I will stay with Haun.