[Cider Jim]

How cool would Coach Gill look if he walked the sidelines with a Tom Landry-style hat?

[bozlady]

Coach Gill is from Texas

How cool would Coach Gill look if he walked the sidelines with a Tom Landry-style hat?

[Sly Fox]

He grew up about a half hour from old Texas Stadium. So I would hazard a guess that Coach Gill is a huge fan of Coach Landry (who incidentally was a Longhorn).

[Purple Haize]

He could have been a Bum Phillips fan. You shouldn't stereotype people!

[Sly Fox]

In Ft. Worth? Highly unlikely. But I'd be cool with a coach in a stetson.

[Purple Haize]

In Ft. Worth? Highly unlikely. But I'd be cool with a coach in a stetson.

There you go stereotyping ! He may have looked at Earl Campell as his hero! Go Oilers!

[Cider Jim]

Can't imagine Coach Gill wearing a Bum Phillips cowboy hat at LU.

[TH Spangler]

Best and worst ......






http://www.gq.com/sports/lists/201011/b ... s#slide=10

http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-dr ... snt-work-1

http://www.businessinsider.com/ten-wors ... rinelli-10

[Chippy]

Best and worst ......






http://www.gq.com/sports/lists/201011/b ... s#slide=10

http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-dr ... snt-work-1

http://www.businessinsider.com/ten-wors ... rinelli-10

Is Hank Stram wearin pajama bottoms?

[bradyfan]

I never realized the resemblance John Madden and John Candy share. Does anyone else see that?

[Sly Fox]

Mocs lose Fobbs to Liberty

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team is looking for a new running backs coach.

Jamaal Fobbs, who was with the Mocs for two seasons, is leaving UTC for a job at Liberty University of the Big South Conference. Liberty recently hired former Kansas coach Turner Gill to take over the program, replacing Danny Rocco who left for Richmond.

“Obviously we didn’t want to lose him,” Mocs coach Russ Huesman said. “I think he’s an excellent coach and excellent person.”

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I covered some of his games during his playing days for the Cowboys back when the stadium in Stillwater looked like an erector set about to collapse before T. Boone backed up the Brinks truck.

[From the class of 09]

A little more from our favorite writer on the new staff.

Breaking down Turner Gill's staff

Liberty football coach Turner Gill completed his coaching staff last week, assembling a group heavy on Division I experience and ties to the University of Nebraska, where Gill played. I wrote a story last week with Gill’s thoughts on the staff as a whole, but I wanted to take an opportunity to break down each coach on the staff. Let’s start with offense...

http://www2.newsadvance.com/sports/2012 ... r-1609314/

[Kolzilla41]

Good stuff Chris.

[TH Spangler]

Nebraska secondary coach

I'm told Minter would be interested in the NU job. Watch this one.

http://huskerextra.com/litr/article_c36 ... ff9b3.html

[Sly Fox]

Good eye, TH Spangler. Hopefully he stays where he is now.

[TH Spangler]

Hopefully he will get excited about the program and the vision and decide to be a part of it for a while. But if he has his eyes set on head coaching someday we are probably just the next step. I'm glad he's here now.

[From the class of 09]

I'll have a new level of respect for Minter if he passes on this. If Neb offers him this job it's an easy sell as they are asking him to return to his alma mater where he'd be able to coach the position he knows best in a town where he already owns a home and his son is finishing up his high school ball. By the way it couldn't hurt that he'd have the chance to coach his son in 2013.

I'd think he would feel bad after not staying even one season but I could see why he might leave.

[jcmanson]

I'm not sweating it one way or the other. We have a great staff. Other schools want our coaches. We will lose coaches. We will replace them. I don't want to lose anybody, but it happens.

[TH Spangler]

I'm not sweating it one way or the other. We have a great staff. Other schools want our coaches. We will lose coaches. We will replace them. I don't want to lose anybody, but it happens.

I would like to meet Coach Minter ..... I was a huge fan of his when he played for Carolina. Hope he stays, but wish him well wherever he goes.

[TallyW]

There is no way we could have a problem with this particular scenario. He hasn't coached a down for us and with the circumstances such as they are... I can't imagine him turning that job down... the prestige, home, family, son possibly playing... etc.. No one could hate if he choses to take that one.

[ALAFlamesFan]

Looks like we will keep our coaching staff in place. Tennessee on the other hand is a mess...

http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/3 ... -tennessee

[panther1]

We need a year of good coaches who can make wise calls. This would be a faith builder.

[TH Spangler]

Looks like we will keep our coaching staff in place. Tennessee on the other hand is a mess...

http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/3 ... -tennessee

I'll be selfish and claim this as GOOD NEWS. Would love to keep Mike in the LU colors for a few years.

[From the class of 09]

My hope is that we hire someone that is as outspoken about their faith as Turner Gill. I want someone that you know where they stand even if their coaching experience was at a state school (Nebraska, Buffalo, Kansas) or in the NFL (Packers).

Maybe a Turner Gill/Ron Brown combo?!? Hey, a fella can dream.

I'm still dreaming!

+1

I doubt it leads to anything but some in the LGBT community are calling for Nebraska to fire Ron Brown. Again I doubt that anything comes of it but the critics haven't gone away as quickly as they usually do when Ron does something like this. If for some reason Nebraska did fire him I could think of one place he might fit in

School board member: NU should fire Ron Brown
LINCOLN — An openly gay member of the Lincoln school board has called for the firing of Husker assistant football coach Ron Brown for his comments opposing an Omaha ordinance protecting gays and lesbians against discrimination.

Barbara Baier said she spoke out because she is worried about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

In her letter to UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Athletic Director Tom Osborne, football coach Bo Pelini and the Board of Regents, she said she was writing as a private citizen and not as a representative of the school board.

In Brown's comments before the Omaha City Council, he said the Bible condemns homosexuality as sin and likened the City Council to Pontius Pilate, the Roman official responsible for the execution of Jesus.

Perlman and Osborne both chided Brown for listing his address as "One Memorial Stadium," for identifying himself as a Husker coach and for not making it clear that he was speaking on behalf of himself, not UNL or its athletic programs.

Responding to Baier's letter, Perlman said he was offended by Brown's comments — but he wasn't going to fire the coach over them.

He said the First Amendment and academic freedom allow UNL employees to express their personal views.

"Unless and until I have evidence that coach Brown has engaged in conduct beyond speech that many of us find offensive, I do not intend to do more than seek to assure that he speaks only for himself and to disassociate myself and this university from his position," Perlman said.

An unflagging Brown said his message would not change.

"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever," he said Friday. "I have no fear of any man or any thing."

Baier said she saw Brown speak at a Champions Club event last fall. She said he made clear his UNL connection and spoke in terms of faith as he attacked gay and transgender individuals and discussed a "mysterious but undefined 'homosexual agenda.'"

"At the conclusion of the speech, I was deeply troubled and, as a person of the attacked minority group, I felt psychologically and socially threatened, so I left the event," she said.

Perlman said he was sorry Baier felt intimidated, but he noted it was not a university event. He said Brown's views on gay rights do not reflect the views of most of the UNL community.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120331/NEWS01/703319875

[luk_fish]

Nobody really cares that much. Plus the last time Mr. Brown found himself without a coaching job, he did not seek other work. He concentrated on "Mission Nebraska," a Christian ministry within the state.