Ray Perkins takes name out of running for McGill-Toolen football coaching job | al.com

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Mar 302011
 

MOBILE, Alabama — Former Alabama and NFL head coach Ray Perkins has removed his name from the running for the head coaching job at McGill-Toolen Catholic in Mobile, the school’s president said Wednesday morning on a local radio show.

Father Bry Shields said on WNSP’s morning show Wednesday that Perkins had withdrawn his candidacy for the position, which came open when former coach Mike Dean resigned. Shields also confirmed Perkins’ decision in an e-mail to the Press-Register.

“While we do not have a deadline for hiring a new coach,” Shields wrote in the e-mail, “spring is here and we need to have someone in place as soon as possible. At the same time, we want to make sure we find the right man, who can motivate and coach our players, and lead the program. We would like to hire someone who has proven his ability to coach successfully at the 6A level.”

The 69-year-old Perkins, who played at Alabama from 1964-66, has lived in his hometown of Petal, Miss., since retiring from a 20-year coaching career. He was 32-15-1 at Alabama after succeeding Paul “Bear” Bryant and was 42-75 as an NFL coach with the New York Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Perkins was also a finalist for the head coaching vacancy at Gulf Shores, but the south Baldwin County school hired Ben Blackmon from Greenville. Perkins has never served as a head coach on the high school level.

via Ray Perkins takes name out of running for McGill-Toolen football coaching job | al.com.

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Mike Krzyzewski: Jalen Rose’s Duke talk ‘very insulting’ – ESPN Chicago

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Mar 292011
 

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski took exception to critical comments that ESPN analyst Jalen Rose made about the school, saying they were “very insulting to everyone here at Duke.”

Rose, as part of an ESPN Films documentary “The Fab Five” that aired March 13 (Rose was an executive producer), said black Blue Devils basketball players recruited in the early 1990s were “Uncle Toms.”

“I hated Duke and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn’t recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms,” Rose said in the documentary.

Former Duke and NBA star Grant Hill already called the comments “sad and somewhat pathetic.”

“Obviously, that was a poor choice of words and very insulting to everyone here at Duke but especially, not just our African-American players, but any African-American students,” Krzyzewski said on “The Waddle & Silvy Show” on ESPN 1000 in Chicago Tuesday. “When you judge within a race, you start judging, like you put categories as to who you are. I think that’s just the wrong thing to do.”

Krzyzewski said one of the Fab Five could have ended up at Duke.

“We were very successful against them and, to be quite frank with you, we recruited Chris Webber,” he said. “I didn’t recruit Jalen Rose because we had Grant Hill and I’m happy with that. We didn’t look at the other, Juwan Howard [because] we knew he wasn’t going to come to Duke. The other two kids we didn’t think were the caliber that could play as well as Thomas Hill and Brian Davis and Billy McCaffery. They’re good kids. They were good kids.”

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski called “The Waddle Silvy Show” while Jay Williams was co-hosting and discussed the Fab Five documentary as well as the Bulls and Derrick Rose.

“They had a heck of a run but, they didn’t leave anything, they didn’t establish anything there,” Krzyzewski said. “The guys that I had established something that Jay Williams continued to do 10 years later — the standards of what it meant to be a Duke basketball player.”

Williams, a college basketball analyst for ESPN, spoke about the topic on ESPN 1000 as well Tuesday. He said that Rose texted him and Hill on the eve of the show and said that his quotes did not pertain to them. When Williams saw the show, he was still unhappy.

via Mike Krzyzewski: Jalen Rose’s Duke talk ‘very insulting’ – ESPN Chicago.

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Alabama House honors Auburn’s BCS football title, coach Gene Chizik rewards body with a ‘War Eagle’ | al.com

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Mar 292011
 

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Auburn University head football Coach Gene Chizik thanked lawmakers and said ”War Eagle” today after the House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution commending Chizik. The Auburn Tigers in January won the BCS national football championship after a 14-0 season.

The resolution said in part, ”In just his second season at Auburn University, Coach Chizik has turned the program to a consistently dominant force on the field and a model of student-athlete performance in the classroom; he is revered by fans and colleagues alike for his strength of personality and outstanding character, instilling the highest standards in his players.”

Chizik, accompanied by his wife, Jonna, said he was humbled by the resolution, adding that he was just a part of a ”great organization” that included Auburn President Jay Gogue, Auburn athletics director Jay Jacobs, assistant coaches and the players.

”I have been just a small part of something way, way bigger than myself,” Chizik said. ”It’s a blessing to do good things. But it’s a curse that only one person usually gets recognized for such as team event.

”But I’m going to stand up here on behalf of everybody who had so much to do with the success of our team,” he said. ”I’m just, again, just very fortunate to be part of a great organization.”

”We’re going to continue to stay on the track that we’re on, in trying to do what we think are the right things for these young men and their lives,” Chizik said. ”Along the way, obviously, we know we have to win a lot of football games and things of that nature, but we’re going to always continue to try to do it right.”

”I feel very humbled,” he said. ”Again, I want to say thank you. And War Eagle.”

The House took about a 15-minute recess after Chizik’s brief speech so that many House members and staff could get their photos taken with Chizik.

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