Two candidates withdraw from football search
It turns out that not everyone wants to be the next Jack Siedlecki.
The two coaches said to be the University’s top choices to take the helm of the Yale football program have withdrawn their names from consideration for the post, and a spokesman for the Yale Athletics Department said Thursday that a new coach will not be announced until next week at the earliest.
A person familiar with the search process, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential deliberations, told the News this week that University of Massachusetts coach Don Brown and Holy Cross...
I would not at all be surprised if Yale fails to find anyone as qualified as Siedlecki and ends up re-hiring Siedlecki for the job. Yale has a strong team but Harvard has a stronger team, and changing the coach will not make Yale win. Yale could win by recruiting more star athletes each year.
How about Tyrone Willingham? He can obviously recruit (see Weis' first year) and he has impeccable personal qualities.
How about bringing back Cozza? He'd younger than Joe Paterno, isn't he?
TYRRRRONNNEEE WILLLLINGGHHAMMM!!! :) :) :)
I love that guy. Recruit him!!!!! PLEAAASSEE!
Tyrone Willingham would be the ultimate DISASTER.
Can't recruit (didn't even want to offer Brady Quinn!)
Can't coach (mediocre at every job he ever took)
All his stoic posturing masks a well known reputation for being lazy, overwhelmed and timid.
Jack was a good coach.From a fan who has not missed a game in 25 years.Offer him a raise and bring him back,
Siedlecki is horrible. I have never seen a coach accomplish so little, with so much talent on his squad. As an ardent Yale fan myself, it appears clear that Siedlecki knows only about three offensive plays - two of which involve running Mike McCleod up the middle, and the other involving the punter.
Can't Yale do better than the coaches of Holy Cross and UMass? Surely we can leverage the Yale name to find someone from more respectable football programs?
Steve Addazio from Univ. of Florida,
has Ct ties and has coached HS in Cheshire and will be able to get good area kids to play close to Home. Can't believe Yale didn't take the Raggone Kid from Cheshire. One of the best players I've seen in years.
when are they announcing the job!!!!!
How about making a 2 year offer to Turner Gill? It'll give Yale some immediate publicity and credibility as a "football school" and may help with recruiting. When Gill inevitably goes on his way, there may be some other higher profile coach whose interest is piqued. At one point (long ago) Yale was something of a factory for college coaches. It might not be impossible to restore a bit of that former glory.
You commenters are fools.
Yale football is not as prestigious as your Yale diploma.
This is a crap job aside from the excellent pay for a lower tier football school and the job security (if you can beat Harvard).
Yale is where coaches go to finish their careers, NOT to jump to BCS schools.
Turner Gill has NO interest in coming to New Haven.
We will most likely end up with another retread from a NESCAC, Patriot or Ivy school.
Yale students- you know nothing about college athletics so please be quiet.
I was shocked when Yale dumped Siedlecki, since the Yale/Penn games in the last few years have become tremendous contests with Yale winnning a lot more than it ever did before. Penn's last two games with Yale were thrilling, particularly the triple overtime loss (by Penn) at Franklin Field. That kind of intensity doesn't come out of thin air- you have to have stellar coaching. Apparently, Yale is so obessessed with beating Harvard it has become the only thing that matters.
Well, Addazio can be scratched off the list. He was promoted to Offensive Coordinator at Florida and is no longer interested in Yale. His 3 predecessors in that position at Florida are all Div 1 coaches now.
So I guess its back to the drawing board.
I can't see why we're having such trouble finding somebody. After all, the job's not so tough; the football coach only has to win one game a year … against Harvard.