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April 2004
Third & Shorts
March Transactions
Head Coaches: Melvin Spears was elevated to interim head coach
at Grambling... Don Brown was hired as head coach at Massachusetts
to replace Mark Whipple, who accepted duties as quarterbacks
coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers...Truman appointed Shannon
Currier as head coach. ...Elmhurst selected Tom
Journell as head
coach... Jim Reid resigned as head coach at Richmond to accept
defensive line coaching duties at Syracuse...Williams promoted
Mike Whalen to head coach... Mississippi awarded head coach David
Cutcliffe with a two-year contract extension through the 2007
season... Colorado named Brian Cabral as interim head coach...
Nick Saban, head coach at LSU, signed a seven-year contract.
Football assistants -
Northern Illinois selected Denny
Doornbos as defensive coordinator... Tulsa
hired Thurmond
Moore as a defensive
assistant coach... Brent Myers was appointed as
running game coordinator and offensive line coach at Arizona State...
Georgia Southern added
Andre Curtis as defensive ends coach... Shelton
Gandy resigned
as an assistant coach at Southern Mississippi... Darryl
Mason was
hired as wide receivers coach and Lorenzo Costantini was
chosen as defensive line coach at Tulane... Washington named Charlie
Dickey as offensive line coach... Mike
Orthmann resigned as associate
head coach at Northern Arizona... Grambling named Tom Lavigne as
defensive coordinator... Bret Bielema was hired
as defensive coordinator at Wisconsin to replace Kevin
Cosgrove...Washington added Jimmy
Lake as cornerbacks coach... Darryl Drake resigned
as wide receivers coach and assistant head coach at Texas to become
wide receivers
coach for the Chicago Bears... Nebraska added Randy Jordan as
running backs coach and Bill Busch as outside
linebackers coach... Akron named Mark Nori as
tight ends coach to replace Harold
Goodwin,
who resigned to become an assistant offensive line coach with the
Chicago Bears... John Kelling was awarded duties
as defensive backs coach at North Dakota... Ohio State selected Darrell
Hazell as
wide receivers coach... McMurry added Mike Patterson as
offensive line coach and Joe Crousen as defensive
coordinator... Steve
Bernstein was tabbed as secondary coach at
Northern Illinois...Citidel named
Toby Strange as offensive coordinator and Shane
Burnham as linebackers
coach... Eastern Michigan added Joe Palka as cornerbacks
coach...
Rod Holder assumed responsibilities as offensive
line coach at Rutgers... Southern Cal named Todd McNair as
running backs coach...
Anthony Poindexter was chosen as an assistant running
backs coach and John Garrett was appointed as
wide receivers coach at Virginia...UNLV tabbed Jonathan
Himebauch as offensive line coach. The school also
announced tight ends coach Bruce Snyder assumed
additional responsibilities as offensive coordinator... Mike
Keller was hired as offensive
coordinator at California (Pennsylvania)... Saint Mary’s
(California) tabbed Don Frease as offensive coordinator
and offensive line coach... Nebraska Wesleyan appointed John
Bates as defensive
coordinator... Western Illinois selected Kerry Cooks
as defensive backs coach... Bobby Kennedy was
chosen as receivers coach at Texas... ...Utah added Chuck
Heater as cornerbacks coach and recruiting
coordinator to succeed Bill Busch... Chris
Mussman was promoted
to assistant head coach at North Dakota.•
Courtesy of NCAA News |