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No. 116: Florida Atlantic
By Paul Myerberg // Apr 23, 2012
Recent Sun Belt coaching moves have gone in the opposite direction. Over the last two years, Arkansas State has hired Hugh Freeze and Gus Malzahn. In 2010, Western Kentucky hired former Stanford running backs coach Willie Taggart. Louisiana-Lafayette tabbed Mark Hudspeth last winter; Louisiana-Monroe hired Todd Berry prior to the 2010 season. The conference as a whole has shifted towards an offense-first mentality, to often exciting, he-who-has-the-ball-last-wins results. When Howard Schnellenberger announced his intent to retire at the end of last season, the belief was that Florida Atlantic would follow the rest of the Sun Belt’s lead, perhaps nabbing a Freeze-like up-and-coming assistant. The Owls did nothing of the sort. In Carl Pelini, the university hired the sort of nail-chewing, fire-spewing defensive coach who thinks of offense the same way defensive linemen think of their offensive counterparts: with disdain. And in Pelini, the Owls might have hired the orneriest son-of-a-gun in college football. Don’t think for a second that being ornery is a bad thing.
Tags: Andrae Kirk, Andy Czuprynski, Bo Pelini, Brian Wright, Carl Pelini, Cory Henry, David Baptiste, David Hinds, DeAndre Richardson, Florida Atlantic, Graham Wilbert, Jimmie Jean, Johnathan Ragoo, Jonathan Wallace, Keith Reaser, Marvin Sanders, Melvin German III, Nebraska, Nexon Dorvilus, Randell Johnson, Stephen Curtis, Sun Belt, Treon Howard, Xavier Stinson
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F.A.U. Eyes the Wright Stuff on Offense
By Paul Myerberg // Jan 21, 2012
Brian Wright is familiar to fans in the hinterlands of college football, those in the Montana-Idaho-Dakotas region, but his name has never crossed the lips of football fans in the Sunshine State. Or hadn’t, before Carl Pelini named Wright, the former offensive coordinator at Montana State, to the same position at Florida Atlantic, where Pelini is preparing for his first season as Howard Schnellenberger’s successor. Now Wright has become a name to watch, perhaps the most important member of the new F.A.U. staff outside of Pelini himself, thanks to the Owls’ inability to achieve the most basic of offensive achievements in 2011 — you know, like first downs, field goals, touchdowns and the like.
Tags: Brian Wright, Carl Pelini, Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Gus Malzahn, Mark Hudspeth, Marvin Sanders, Sun Belt, Troy
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