Friday, December 09, 2011

Friday---December 9, 2011

Matty V. has a report from Coach Molnar's press conference including some quotes from the coach.

One quote that does not appear in the story came when Molnar was being interviewed by Josh Mauer. Molnar said " I wouldn't have had any interest in UMass if they were I-AA.".

Matty also related Molnar won the press conference.

Related stories from the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Herald.

MassLive.com has  more.

The UMass Daily Collegian said Molnar was officially announced as the Minutemen's head coach.

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The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette says Molnar will continue to help Notre Dame prep for the Champs Bowl.

The Champs Bowl game website.

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ESPN says Molnar's likely replacement for the Irish will likely be Norte Dame's offensive line coach Ed Warinner.

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James Ihedigbo likes what he sees in the UMass upgrade.

More on Ihedigbo's comments from the Associated Press.

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Illinois just hired Toledo's Mike Beckman to replace Ron Zook.

Quote from the above article:

"So in targeting Beckman at Toledo, Thomas is simply returning to a league that has a long and distinguished reputation for churning out top-rate head coaches. Michigan’s Bo Schembechler, Ohio State’s Woody Hayes, Notre Dame’s Ara Parseghian and Northwestern’s Randy Walker not only earned their head coaching stripes in the MAC, they all held the head coaching job at Miami of Ohio.

Current Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel was hired after a successful stint at Toledo. Current Alabama head coach Nick Saban was once head coach at Toledo. And current Michigan coach Brady Hoke was head coach at Ball State
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Richmond hired former Liberty HC Danny Rocco to lead the Spiders.