Sunday, December 28, 2008

And The New Coach Is ...

It has taken a while but the New Haven Register reports that, "UConn offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Rob Ambrose will be named head football coach at ..."

... wait for it ...

... wait for it ...

... Towson University.

Yale, like the legendary Jeopardy contestant who can't get the buzzer to work, is "just watching," as announcements are being made around the rest of college football. Not that the folks in New Haven aren't trying because they are. They just don't appear to be having much luck, if the Register has it right.

Remember when the Tampa Bay Bucs fired Tony Dungy as head coach after his teams went 11-5, 10-7 and 9-7 in consecutive years? The search that followed reminds me a little of what appears to be happening in New Haven. It's one thing to hire a coach to replace one who was fired because of a lack of success. It's another thing all together to hire a coach to replace one who has enjoyed success. That's the case at Yale, where Jack Siedlecki was 23-7 over the past three years and it wasn't good enough.

First Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore, then UMass coach Don Brown and now Florida assistant Steve Addazio have each tasted the waters in New Haven and chosen to stay where they are. The Portal 31 Yale football blog reported last night: "Former Cheshire High coach Steve Addazio is the latest candidate to decide to stay where he is rather than remain in contention for the vacant Yale football job."

The good news for Yale: After a bumbling search at Tampa Bay the Bucs hit gold with Jon Gruden.

And finally, that certain Hanover High School junior won the 3,000 and qualified for states in a big meet at Leverone Field House yesterday. It wasn't her best time but she took the lead with 200 meters to go and won by six seconds, so it was a solid showing. Her freshman brother was disappointed by his performance in the 1,500, but the kid who hates running and is doing it just to get in shape for his other sports still managed to take several seconds off the time he posted in his first 1,500 a week ago.

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