Dan Hawkins, who served as the head coach at Boise State and Colorado, former Houston coach Tony Levine, Tennessee tight ends coach Larry Scott, former North Texas offensive coordinator Mike Canales and ULM alum Chris Scelfo were the only applicants with FBS head-coaching experience.
Hawkins averaged 10 wins a year at Boise from 2001-05 and parlayed that into the Colorado job in 2006. He couldn’t replicate the same success in Boulder and was fired during the 2010 season after winning 19 games in just under four seasons.
Couple of things, first, this move by the Monroe News Star might have completely changed the coaching search game. No group of professionals are consistently more full of shit than football programs but especially during coaching searches. Amazingly, everyone always seems to get their first choice. Well, now with this paper showing that you can file an open records request, we can now call bull shit on them.
When USC hires the next Clay Helton and says that he was the only coach ever considered, we can now call bull shit, and after 14 days, we can prove it. Huge win for guys who hate coach speak.
However most importantly, it's good to see Dan Hawkins name out there again. For those that don't know who he is, he was Chris Petersen before Chris Petersen. For those that don't know who Chris Petersen is, he was the coach at Boise State when they ran the Statue of Liberty play to beat Oklahoma. I'm glad to see Hawkins' name out there, not because I'm particularly fond of his coaching, but mainly because I get reminded of his Colorado tenure and most importantly the time that Cartman introduced the starting lineup during a broadcast.
"Because he's the coaches son." Classic Dan Hawkins.
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