Sentences with phrase «first year head coaches»

Many bettors believe first year head coaches are good to bet with.

Indianapolis Colts» first year head coach Chuck Pagano has been a rallying point for the young team, as they use his Luekemia diagnosis as motivation to do their coach proud.

Is it possible that any first year head coach gets canned?

First year head coach Gus Bradley has his team playing well above its talent level, without the aid of a decent quarterback or a reliable offensive line.

Is there a chance that a first year head coach says sayonara?

Defiance went 3 - 7 in 2016 under first year head coach Kevin Kline.

Not exact matches

Despite his having one of the most successful starts in coaching history (including two NBA championships for the Warriors in his first three years as a head coach), the team has struggled of late.

In its first decade, the Rooney Rule seemed to make a notable difference: Beginning in 2003, ESPN reports that minorities filled about 20 % of head coaching vacancies — and that percentage edged up steadily each year.

The same thing had happened to him in his first year as head coach in 1961.

Things didn't look promising after ASU did not extend Graham's contract, despite getting a seemingly automatic one - year contract extension after or during each of his first four seasons as Arizona State's head coach.

The Kentucky Wildcats have been putting together an absolutely ridiculous recruiting class in Mark Stoops first year as the Wildcats head coach.

After the 32 - year - old Alexander Svitov (known for being a first round NHL bust) beat up a 19 - year - old Damir Ryspayev and Barys head coach Andrei Nazarov was utterly furious.

Offensively, Doug Kistler pressured the desperate Deacons with his outside shooting (for 22 points), and John Frye calmly dropped in four foul shots in the final minute to give the hustling Blue Devils a 63 - 59 victory and 32 - year - old Vic Bubas a championship in his first year as a head coach.

Conversely, Illinois has struggled tremendously under first - year head coach Lovie Smith.

He's exactly the kind of player first - year head coach Steve Kerr can find a role for with relative ease.

At the beginning of the season, if you would have told Michigan and Florida that they would be in the Citrus Bowl with first - year head coaches, they probably would have taken it.

Head coach's bowl record: Bobby Petrino is 4 - 4 in bowl games, including a 2 - 2 record in his first stint at Louisville and last year's bowl loss in the first season of his second term with the team.

But in head coach Mark Hudspeth's first year in Lafayette, his Cajuns came out of nowhere to go 8 - 4 and earn their first ever bowl invitation.

Fast - forward a month, and Ball is averaging 90 yards a game (he left last week's game in the second quarter with a head injury), O'Brien has been benched for a redshirt freshman and first - year offensive line coach Mike Markuson has been fired.

In his 10 years as head coach of BYU entering this season, the Cougars made 10 bowl games, with nine winning seasons and a 6 - 6 mark in his first year on the job.

Of course it is still a reach to say the Mustangs, from a two - bid league, with a first - year head coach, in the same region as the defending national champions and pre-season favorites, can get to Glendale, but I haven't seen a more worthy team with that number next to their name in a long time.

His first Bowling Green staff featured a Notre Dame graduate assistant named Dan Mullen (the head coach at Mississippi State), former Brown offensive line coach John Hevesy (Mullen's offensive co-coordinator), former Arkansas State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa (who became LSU's offensive coordinator for two years), former Villanova running backs coach Stan Drayton (on Meyer's Ohio State staff), Gregg Brandon (who would succeed Meyer at BGSU), Tim Beckman (who went on to spend three years as Toledo's head coach and is heading toward a fourth year at Illinois), and Tim Banks (currently Beckman's defensive coordinator).

Herman is one year removed from being an offensive coordinator at Ohio State, where he was instrumental in the Buckeyes» championship run in 2014, and he landed his first head coaching job at Houston before he even won the trophy.

There are several teams falling well below expectations already — the Buccaneers and Giants, most notably, and the Browns are still searching for their first win after earning one victory a year ago under Hue Jackson — and with a limited pool of coordinators and potential first - time head coaches emerging, Harbaugh will be in demand, according to sources with some front offices where a coaching change is expected.

Then, on Oct. 3, Shell became the NFL's first black head coach in 64 years when he was named coach of the Los Angeles Raiders.

Each team is breaking in a first - year head coach who can wash the bad taste of a regular season - ending loss with a key bowl win.

First - year head coach Pat Shurmur's success in developing overlooked quarterbacks into successful players could lead the Giants to a cheaper alternative this spring.

French head coach Didier Deschamps welcomes 22 - year - old attacking midfielder Antoine Griezmann to his side, handing the Real Sociedad star his first senior side call - up.

He made a great defensive coordinator hire in Barry Odom (now Missouri's head coach), and the defense surged in the very first year and rose to 23rd in Def.

Summary: Buffalo collapsed in Leipold's second year, and now the former Division III great faces the burden of proof for almost the first time ever as a head coach.

Before the season, Garrett actually had much shorter odds of being the first head coach fired (+800) than he did of being named Coach of the Year (+2coach fired (+800) than he did of being named Coach of the Year (+2Coach of the Year (+2800).

After a year as graduate assistant at USC, his first head coaching job came in 1967 at Indio High School, northeast of San Diego.

Today is also the first game day coach Bob Ladouceur — who with a 399 -25-3 record in 34 years of heading the Spartans program, is arguably the greatest high school football coach of all time — is NOT the head coach.

Coach Lazaga is in his first year as head coach for the William Jessup University WarrCoach Lazaga is in his first year as head coach for the William Jessup University Warrcoach for the William Jessup University Warriors.

Former Arizona head coach Mike Stoops spent seven years on staff, first as defensive ends coach, then as defensive co-coordinator following his brother's departure for Florida, then solo coordinator.

Last season, no NBA head coach was fired for the first time in 46 years.

HERMAN HICKMAN SAYS: Last year at this time Terry Brennan was facing his first season as a college head coach.

Georgia is facing a new year with a new head coach for the first time in over a decade, and the Bulldogs are well positioned to win an SEC East that's there for the taking.

Last season, his seventh as an NFL coach and first as a play - caller, he and head coach Jay Gruden took an unproven first - year starting quarterback and turned Washington into the league's sixth most efficient passing game and 10th highest scoring offense.

Another first - year head coach, Sean McDermott, got the Bills to the postseason for the first time in 18 years.

In his first year as Buffalo's head coach, Lance Leipold has lost as many games (six) as he did in eight seasons at Wisconsin - Whitewater.

Haynes ran so well that Richt kept the ball on the ground throughout a 10 - play, 80 - yard scoring drive, which he says was the first time in his nine - year career as an offensive coordinator and head coach that he'd called so many consecutive rushes in a single drive.

Tony Sanchez could wrap up a successful 4 - 8 campaign in his first year as UNLV's head coach, but Craig Bohl's 1 - 10 Cowboys have been a little bit more competitive of late.

The original list from Bookmaker includes two assistants vying for their first head coaching gig, a couple college coaches and several veteran coaches — some of whom haven't been on the bench in years.

The Serb has well and truly won the battle to be named as the club's first - choice left back ahead of France international Gael Clichy at Eastlands this season under new Blues head coach Manuel Pellegrini, and the Chilean has been rewarded by the 28 - year - old with an impressive five assists in 17 Premier League contests.

His first years as head coach of Hufflepuff's team were wrought with poor chaser schemes and little to no off quaffle movement.

That's enough to move first - year head coach Jeff Tedford's Bulldogs into the top 60.

After getting the Detroit Lions first win in Washington, D.C. against the Washington Redskins in 78 years, Lions head coach Jim...

The first was a $ 60 million facility upgrade, the second a six - year, $ 20 million contract for new head coach Jeff Brohm.

A DECADE AGO the Patriots won their third Super Bowl in four years, a sudden dominance engineered by a defensive mastermind who had failed miserably in his first head - coaching job and a 27 - year - old quarterback who had languished until the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft.