All good speculative offseason college football posts need a gimmick, and CBSSports.com’s Dennis Dodd has a great one: Ranking every Football Bowl Subdivision coach’s job security. The 2012 Coach Hot Seat Ratings include few surprises — Nick Saban’s job at Alabama is safe, oddly enough — and they bode well for Air Force head man Troy Calhoun, who joins Saban and 29 other coaches with 0.0 ratings, or “can’t be touched.” That’s an improvement from a 0.5 score last year. Navy’s Ken Niumatalolo went the opposite direction after posting his first losing season at Navy, moving from a 0.5 in…
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The Sporting News just released its ranking of all 124 college football coaches. It gives new meaning to the word “complete.” Also, possibly new meaning to the word “long.” We’ll simplify for you service academy football fans: Air Force gets bragging rights, with head coach Troy Calhoun checking in at No. 29. Navy’s Ken Niumatalolo checks in at No. 35, while Army’s Rich Ellerson rounds out the academy pack at 79. The SN folks don’t spell out their methodology, but if you went by traditional metrics — you know, like their records from last year — you’d have the same…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QK-hC6nhpM[/youtube] Unfortunately After Action doesn’t have the travel budget to fly our faithful correspondents to each of the service academy’s bowl games. Thus, I’ll let the journalists who were in attendance provide the game stories. Click here, here or here for a wrap up of Air Force’s 14-7 win last night over Georgia Tech in the Independence Bowl. Like most of you, though, I was glued to my TV despite the protests from my fiance who doesn’t understand how there can be so many bowl games. Anyways, here are some thoughts on the game. — Air Force quarterback Tim Jefferson…
Not a big surprise here. Despite appearing in a bunch of unofficial Top 25 lists this summer, Navy did not make the Associated Press’ preseason Top 25. The Midshipmen did receive 12 votes, which I guess makes them 38th overall. Defending champion Alabama is first (yawn), while Ohio State is second (quiet yawn made while falling into semi-consciousness). Thankfully Boise State in 3rd place and TCU in 6th liven up a Top 10 full of predictable BCS powerhouses. Oh wait, you mean Nebraska’s back? That’s really zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Please, please, please let Boise or TCU (sorry, Air Force fans) throw a…
Former Navy quarterback Craig Candeto, one of three former Midshipmen to land on Paul Johnson’s Georgia Tech coaching staff this offseason, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution yesterday that he hopes to one day become a BCS head coach and, later, a TV analyst. Candeto, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 2004 and served as an F/A-18 pilot before leaving the service, joined former Mids Joe Speed and Lamar Owens on Georgia Tech’s staff. Owens, a quarterback under Johnson while at Navy, has been a graduate assistant the past two years at GT, while Speed had coached the last eight…
Former Naval Academy quarterback Lamar Owens has a full-time job. Owens, who led the Naval Academy to the Poinsettia Bowl and an 8-4 record in 2005, has been hired by Georgia Tech to be the program’s new “A-backs” coach. Owens had been a graduate assistant for the Yellow Jackets for the past two seasons. Tech’s head coach is Paul Johnson, who coached Navy from 2001-07. Owens is best known for his controversial rape court-martial in 2007. Owens was acquitted of rape, but convictions on lesser charges ended his chance of getting commissioned and got him kicked out the academy without…
So maybe this isn’t exactly breaking news, but former Naval Academy quarterback Lamar Owens is part of Paul Johnson’s Georgia Tech coaching staff. I noticed this for the first time after Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt threw a costly fourth quarter interception in tonight’s Orange Bowl. After the INT, somebody who looked an awful lot like Owens was consoling Nesbit on the sidelines. So I looked it up, and apparently Owens has been a graduate assistant for the Yellow Jackets for two years now, according to his bio on ramblinwreck.com. I had no idea. Owens is best known for his high-profile…
There’s a great read in today’s Wall Street Journal about Navy’s 2004 Emerald Bowl win over New Mexico. Yes, the 2004 Emerald Bowl. In the Wall Street Journal. Why, you wonder, would the Wall Street Journal (the Wall Street Journal!) devote space to a bowl game from five years ago? A bowl game of little consequence played before a crowd of less than 29,000? Here’s why: This game contained the longest drive in college football history. Navy held the ball for 14 minutes and 26 seconds as they drove 26 plays over the course of the end of the third…
