Head Football Coach Vacancies

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Originally Posted by dawg80

Bill Snyder out at K State again, and this time for good. As I recall, and maybe my memory is off on this, K State eventually hired Snyder in about 1988 to fill the vacancy created when the previous coach was fired after blowing a 28-0 lead over a "cupcake" at their homecoming game....that "cupcake" was Tech. The Dawgs rallied for a 31-28 win in Manhattan.

That's how I remember it, anyway.

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Has Snyder made his announcement, or is this still the report from early this morning from "sources" that Snyder has indeed decided to retire?

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Originally Posted by Bulldog Tom

Has Snyder made his announcement, or is this still the report from early this morning from "sources" that Snyder has indeed decided to retire?

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I don't know about any official announcements. This is what my sources say up in Kansas. I just assumed it was a done deal.

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Originally Posted by dawg80

I don't know about any official announcements. This is what my sources say up in Kansas. I just assumed it was a done deal.

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Every sports news department is quoting "sources" that Snyder is to retire, but Snyder hasn't announced that yet. Snyder has been thinking about this all week, also according to "sources". When it comes to Snyder I wait to hear him talk.

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Originally Posted by dawg80

I don't know about any official announcements. This is what my sources say up in Kansas. I just assumed it was a done deal.

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He finally made it official. He gone.

Not sure mentioned yet but some (meaning not none) buzz of Skip returning to ECU - Chris Johnson as one of supporters. Interesting....

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Originally Posted by CanadaDawg

Not sure mentioned yet but some (meaning not none) buzz of Skip returning to ECU - Chris Johnson as one of supporters. Interesting....

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Say it ain't so! Don't go Skip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_vvex_mfik

...and take your Rock Star with ya!

Skip leaving wont mean a thing if TMac is still here. Whos the coach at NSU?

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Originally Posted by Blue Dawg

Skip leaving wont mean a thing if TMac is still here. Whos the coach at NSU?

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Brad Laird, a Ruston native.

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Originally Posted by dawg80

Brad Laird, a Ruston native.

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Not a Ruston native, I don't believe, but a Ruston High alum who led the Bearcats to their last state title (1990) when dad Billy was an assistant at Tech. He's also a former Ruston High head coach.

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Originally Posted by theprofessor

Not a Ruston native, I don't believe, but a Ruston High alum who led the Bearcats to their last state title (1990) when dad Billy was an assistant at Tech. He's also a former Ruston High head coach.

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Same difference....he's "from Ruston."

At least our next coach will be "from Ruston," then.

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Originally Posted by CanadaDawg

Not sure mentioned yet but some (meaning not none) buzz of Skip returning to ECU - Chris Johnson as one of supporters. Interesting....

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ECU is hiring the JMU coach. Who got his offer "retracted" from Charlotte b/c he didn't accept it after ECU fired their coach.

http://footballscoop.com/news/report...ead-coach-ecu/

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Originally Posted by dawg80

Brad Laird, a Ruston native.

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Originally Posted by theprofessor

Not a Ruston native, I don't believe, but a Ruston High alum who led the Bearcats to their last state title (1990) when dad Billy was an assistant at Tech. He's also a former Ruston High head coach.

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For the decade that I lived in Ruston I had always heard that you aren't from Ruston unless you have at least two generations in the ground there...

Laird wasn’t successful at the helm of Ruston High nor was his dad before him. The Laird head coaching bloodline isn’t even worth considering at Tech... in any capacity.

Crap, does that make it a done deal? Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything.