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Utah State football: Aggie A.D. hopes to find new coach soon

I'm pretty good at NCAA football 2009... Can I have a shot at it? I have a great record with recruiting as well. After my last season, I pulled in eleven 5 star recruits and nine 4 star... That class could turn USU around overnight...

whom ever they hire utah state needs to make sure they keep bill garren their video coordinator. he does a great job for their program.

Thanks to Utah State. As the article states their has been improvements in the football program but not enough to produce more wins.

As a Utah State fan don't bring John L. Smith back. We want wins.

If they don't hire a former Aggie (coach or player) who was there during a successful period of time, then they have not learned their lesson!

USU should look for young new talent, Alta's head coach Les Hamilton would be a great fit for the Aggies. He knows how to win and that's an environment that the Aggies need to engender among their players, fans, administration, and the Big Blue Club.

Chico gets my vote. He was a great player at USU and has some good experience without being an old codger.

This Job is a no win Situation, I think they will take a while to find someone willing to take the risk, But I guess there is no where but up to go.

With how Ut. State schedules football they should just promote the DC or OC. They are set up to fail. Unlike basketball where they let Stewy schedule a bunch of cupcakes they schedule very tough road games for the football team. Until they change the scheduling philosophy a coach will never survive up there.

Please no High school coaches, get a proven winner even at the JC level.

You might be overqualified.

I can't imagine why any coach from either Utah or BYU would want this job. Anae, in particular, is probably looking pretty good for offensive coordinator at a BCS school, or head coach at one of the better non-BCS schools (though he may have to hang out another year or two and prove himself at BYU). USU is a dead-end.

A good high school coach is the only one who has something to gain by taking this job. So look no farther than Alta, Bingham or Timpview.

ooo...NCAA '09 totally trumps my Madden 64. I was going to apply but now that that guy is I think I might head to San Diego State...

USU might be best served with Mark Wahlberg, he played a kinda successful football player in a movie once, I think he would fit the bill nicely.

My vote goes to John L. Smith! Brent Guy was a defensive coordinator and we didn't know how he would do as a head coach. Turns out he didn't do too well. What Utah State doesn't need is an other risky offensive or defensive coordinator that might do well, let alone a high school coach!! Utah State needs John L. he led them to their most recent winning season and bowl game. He beat Utah 2 times out of 3 and competed well with byu. After all he did well enough at USU to get the Job at Louisville. He succeeded here once why wouldn't he again??? The program has better facilities and is in a better conferense with more talent than last time he was here!!

John L Smith would be a fantastic rehire. When he was coaching, the Aggies actually won more than 4 games a year. You could always look into Charlie Weatherbie.

I agree to a point with Uh..., no high school coaches. Look at some Jr. Colleges like Cottonwood or Timview.

Utah state should get skylines coach. He is very good at recruiting the best talent in the area.

Kyle: Already in the works. It takes a few years to rework the schedule due to the nature of OOC contracts, but the AD is committed to no more than 1 body bag game and will bring in a lower division school for one home game. Remaining OOC games will be scheduled against schools within our competitive sphere. Personally, I'd be in favor of dropping BYU for 5-10 years and only play Utah every other year.

Hire Greg Croshaw! He's a proven winner at the jr college level for years and is now doing a heck of a job at Pineview high school. He is a local polynesian favorite and is a great recruiter.

If USU needs open up their schedule DROP BYU. USU has everything to lose nothing to gain, if USU beats the Y the locals want to know how BYU could lose, if USU loses well that the way it is to be.

DROP BYU

Croshaw is washed up. All he does now, is hang aroung high school games thinking 'bout glory days. Please don't even consider Croshaw.