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Not saying Chuck Martin is our man, just found these numbers to be interesting. He is going for his third title this Saturday. He has had 29 players earn all america honors. He had 4 straight undefeated seasons up to 2008 and only one loss this year. He is tied for the winningest active college football coach title regardless of division. The guy can obvisously coach.
Kelly at GVSU - 118-35-2
Kelly before Martin's hire at GVSU as D-Coordinator- 65-24-2
Kelly after Martin's hire- 53-11
Martin's record - 74-6 (92.5%)
Grand Valley State head coach Chuck Martin is set to embark on his sixth year as the leader of the winningest DII football program in the country. All Martin has done his first five years is lead the Lakers to two NCAA DII Football National Championships, 61 total wins and set the all-time NCAA DII winning streak at 40. He has been named the American Football Coaches Association DII Coach of the Year twice and was honored as the GLIAC Coach of the Year for the first time in 2007. Martin, who was an assistant coach at GVSU for four years prior to becoming the sixth head coach in Laker football history, was named to the head coaching post on December 31, 2003.
Few have been as successful as Martin in the first five years of their head coaching career. Martin is 61-5 (.924) overall with a 13-3 playoff record, two National Championships and four GLIAC titles. GVSU is 46-2 in GLIAC action, including a current 40-game GLIAC winning streak. He guided Grand Valley State to its fourth straight perfect regular season in 2008. Martin is the winningest active DII head coach in the country and is in a virtual tie with Mount Union's Larry Kehres for the winningest active college football coach title regardless of division. Kehres has a .9247 winning percentage (275-21-3), while Martin has a .9242 winning percentage.Last edited by bearcatbbllfn; 12-10-2009, 07:55 PM.Comment
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First time posting but saw this list on Football Scoop,
Cincinnati: We are hearing former Georgia Tech coach Chan Gailey is interested in the Cincinnati job. It will be interesting to see if Central Michigan head coach Butch Jones enters the picture. Jones followed Brian Kelly at Central Michigan.Comment
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http://www.mlive.com/lakers/index.ss...unite_wit.html
Kelly left to become coach at Central Michigan, then Cincinnati. At each stop, he called Martin about coaching his defense, but Martin opted instead for winning his own pair of national titles, and could add a third Saturday.
If Kelly calls next from Notre Dame, don’t expect the same answer.
“No, I wouldn’t turn that down,” Martin said. “But I’ve turned down D-coordinator at Central and D-coordinator at Cincinnati. He may be done asking me.
“I’ll let you know if he does ask me. He’ll call me if he wants to call me and, if he doesn’t, I won’t bother him. It’s not like I’m going to call him if he gets the job. We’ve got that kind of relationship. If he wants me on his staff, he’ll call me."Comment
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Let Me Say This One More Time....
Successful coaches stay 2-3 years (at most) then leave. Unless we get a new HC with Cincinnati connections, we will have this same uproar in 2-3 years (assuming the new coach is sucessful)
1. Tony Mason 1974-1977; leaves UC after 8-3 season for Arizona.
2. Ralph Staub; fired after 1980 season
3. Mike Gottfried; leaves for Kansas after 1982 season
4. ***** Watson Brown; leaves after 1983 season
5. Dave Curry; fired after 1988 season (no winning seasons)
6. Tim Murphy; leaves after only winning season (8-3) in 1993
7. Rick Minter; fired after 9 average to above average years. Has not been a HC job since.
8. Mark "Fly By Night" Dantonio; leaves in 2006 after 3 decent years.
9. _ _; leaves in 2009 after 12-0 season, after lying to his players about character, and not leaving.
10. ___________________________ ....................
B.C."A witness to the pinnacle of UC Football, the 2020 and 2021 seasons... not likely to ever happen again!"Comment
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I say dangle that sugar bowl if front of some heavy hitters and ask them to ink right now. That is a nice sign on bonus. Then we dont need to worry about an interim coach at the bowl.Comment
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Other than Jones and Holtz, I would be sick if any of those people got hired. Golden is a terrible fit (defensive guy), Gill is a flash in the pan (witness his 1 good year in the MAC), Sumlin's teams have crapped the bed too many times in the last two years, and Coombs is a high school coach that has no business on a D1 staff (other than for recruiting).Cincinnati:
FootballCoachScoop has learned that Butch Jones (Central Michigan Head Coach), Kevin Sumlin (Houston Head Coach), Skip Holtz (East Carolina),
Turner Gill (Buffalo Head Coach), Kerry Combs (Associate Head Coach/Defensive Backs Coach) and Al Golden (Temple Head Coach) are names that we
have been hearing mentioned to replace Kelly as Head Coach for the Bearcats by Athletic Director Mike Thomas.
I trust Mike Thomas, but he's gotta do better than this.#41
You can give it a patriotic name, but it still sucks.Comment
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None other than DeLo is pushing for KC for HC. I asked him why. We'll see if he answersBrent Wyrick
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If Skip Holtz is such a great coach though why wasn't ND all over him? You'd think they would've snatched him up considering his dad was the last one that did any good at ND. He seems like an "average" coach to me. I don't know a lot about him though.Comment
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Looks like footballcoachscoop.comhas been reading out message board. Here's their latest:
FootballCoachScoop has learned that Butch Jones (Central Michigan Head Coach), Kevin Sumlin (Houston Head Coach), Skip Holtz (East Carolina),
Turner Gill (Buffalo Head Coach), Kerry Combs (Associate Head Coach/Defensive Backs Coach) and Al Golden (Temple Head Coach) are names that we
have been hearing mentioned to replace Kelly as Head Coach for the Bearcats by Athletic Director Mike Thomas.Comment
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