t*****i 发帖数: 668 | 1 Miami fires coach Randy Shannon
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5858214
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Miami fired coach Randy Shannon on Saturday, hours
after the Hurricanes finished a
7-5 regular season
Shannon received a four-year extension just before the start of the 2010
season. He was 28-22 in four
seasons at Miami.
"We have made a decision to seek new leadership for our football program,"
Miami athletic director Kirby
Hocutt said in a statement from the school. "Our expectations are to compete
for championships and return
to the top of the college football world. We will immediately begin a
national search."
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A source told ESPN that assistant head coach and offensive coordinator Mark
Whipple has also been fired, and
offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland will take over as interim coach.
Hocutt made the decision to fire Shannon shortly after Miami lost to South
Florida 23-20 in overtime on
Saturday afternoon, in a game where only about 27,000 people filled the 73,
000 seats at Sun Life Stadium.
The school has called a news conference for 1 p.m. ET Sunday, where Hocutt
will address the media.
Shannon drove away from the stadium around 5:30 p.m. ET Saturday unsure of
his fate, though he had
suspected that he would be fired after the Hurricanes were embarrassed at
home by Florida State on Oct. 9
and then were beaten by lowly Virginia three weeks later. He considered
making many changes to his staff
and was deciding whether to dismiss some coaches later Saturday evening.
Instead, Miami beat him to the punch.
Shannon took over for Larry Coker at the end of the 2006 season and went on
a mission to change the
culture at the school -- which, in many respects, he did.
Miami has been among the nation's leaders in academic success by its
football program, and the off-the-
field reputation has been cleaned up considerably.
But it never translated into wins.
Shannon went 5-7 in his first season, then 7-6, then 9-4 last year. He never
won a bowl game, and never
got the Hurricanes past second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference's
Coastal Division. Miami still has not
won an ACC championship since leaving the Big East, and hasn't been part of
the Bowl Championship Series
since the 2003 season.
"Randy Shannon is Miami," university president Donna Shalala famously said
when he was hired, with good
reason. Shannon is a native of Miami, played for the Hurricanes and was a
longtime assistant coach there
before getting the chance to lead the program.
Even after Miami lost last week to Virginia Tech and was eliminated from the
ACC race, Shalala sent Shannon
a note of support. But when asked by The Associated Press after Saturday's
loss if he was concerned about
his future, Shannon simply shrugged and said it would remain a source of
speculation, as it had been for
about the past six weeks.
Less than six hours later, he was out of a job.
Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report. | x*******1 发帖数: 28835 | 2 靠,这让michigan情何以堪阿。 人没打雷就下雨了 | g*********d 发帖数: 8125 | 3 我靠,动作比我都快你真行,
是啊,如果是我我就立马解雇R2.可惜DB可能要等到周一。
不能浪费了15个practise before bowl game
【在 x*******1 的大作中提到】 : 靠,这让michigan情何以堪阿。 人没打雷就下雨了
| u****d 发帖数: 23938 | | b*******h 发帖数: 2585 | 5 其实这个miami队还行,至少是防守不错。除了对FSU那一场,其它比赛都是进攻问题。
去年的防守也不能说差,只是对付自己能跑的四分卫表现差。
今年更好了。 |
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