Third and Shorts

NEWS, REVIEWS, NUMBERS & TRIVIA
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Head Coaches: Massachusetts Maritime selected Jeremy Cameron as head football coach and associate director of athletics for recruiting. Cameron, who replaces Joe Domingos, has been an assistant coach at Wagner since 2000... Minnesota State Moorhead chose Chad Eisele as head coach to replace Ralph Micheli. For the past five years, Eisele has worked as head coach at Lake Forest... Todd Whitten was hired as head coach at Sam Houston State. Whitten, who succeeds the retired Ron Randleman, has been in charge of the program at Tarleton State since 2000... John Fassel resigned as head coach at New Mexico Highlands to become an assistant with the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens. The school announced Santos Carillo, assistant head coach, was tabbed as Fassel’s interim successor... Kalamazoo chose Terrance A. Brooks as head coach. Brooks formerly has been assistant head coach at Shenandoah... Phillip Fulmer, head coach at Tennessee, signed a one-year contract extension through the 2011 season... Washington State’s Bill Doba was awarded a contract extension through the 2009 season as head coach. Doba joined the program in 1989 and has been head coach since 2003...Upper Iowa head coach Courtney Messingham resigned after two years to become a wide receivers coach at Southern Mississippi... William Paterson hired Mike Miello as head coach.

Assistants: Tucker Waugh was added as wide receivers coach at Stanford... Syracuse tabbed Jim Salgado as cornerbacks coach and secondary coach... Minnesota State Mankato announced Mike Ekeler as defensive coordinator... Marc Trestman was hired as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at North Carolina State. Trestman, was quarterbacks coach and assistant head coach with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins last season... Western Michigan added Chuck Bullough as linebackers coach, Steve Morrison as defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator, Mike Sullivan as offensive line coach and Paul Williams as defensive secondary coach... Ken Margerum was chosen as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Steve Morton was tabbed as offensive line coach and Brent Brennan was appointed as wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at San Jose State... Arizona hired Josh Heupel as tight ends coach. Last season, Heupel worked as a graduate assistant at Oklahoma... Nelson Barnes was hired as defensive line coach at Oklahoma State. Barnes was defensive line coach at North Dakota State... Southern California named Jethro Franklin as defensive line coach to replace Ed Orgeron... Todd Wash was chosen as defensive line coach and Steve Laqua was named as running backs coach at North Dakota State. The school also elevated Reggie Moore, wide receivers coach, to full-time.

Isaac Collins was appointed as defensive secondary coach at Delaware. Collins, most recently the associate head coach, defensive coordinator and defensive secondary coach at Holy Cross, succeeds Paul Williams, who became defensive secondary coach at Western Michigan... Patrick Higgins was chosen as receivers coach and special teams coach at Brigham Young. Higgins was tight ends coach at Louisiana Tech last season... Southern California’s Norm Chow resigned to become offensive coordinator for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans. Chow has been the Trojan’s offensive coordinator since 2001. The school named Pat Ruel as offensive line coach, chose Steve Sarkisian as quarterbacks coach and elevated Ken Norton Jr. to full-time linebackers coach. Ruel was an offensive line assistant with the NFL’s New York Giants during the 2004 season and replaces Tim Davis. Sarkisian, who succeeds Carl Smith, spent the past season as quarterbacks coach with the NFL’s Oakland Raiders... Tom Hayes was added as defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Stanford. Hayes formerly has been a defensive coordinator at UCLA, Oklahoma and Kansas... Pete Hurt accepted responsibilities as offensive line coach at Air Force. Hurt, who takes over for John Reagan, was head football coach and athletics director at Clinton (Mississippi) High School for three seasons.

(Courtesy: NCAA News) Please send all coaching transactions to AFM’s Managing Editor Rex Lardner: rlardner@lcclark.com

Hall of Fame Has a New Executive Director
Hall of Fame Has a New Executive DirectorRick Walls was recently named the new executive director of the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana. The announcement came from John Hanson, Chairman of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Inc. Walls, formerly the director of operations for the Morristown, NJ – based NFF, begins his new duties in early April.

Walls received a bachelor’s degree in Sports Sciences from Ohio University and began his involvement with the College Hall of Fame – then located in Kings Island, Ohio – as an intern. He then accepted a temporary position as assistant director of the Traveling College Football Hall of Fame. After five months of traveling around the country, Walls accepted a full-time position with the organization.

When the Hall moved to South Bend in 1993, Walls moved as well and became the liaison between the Hall and the design companies that were creating and building the new facility. With the facility complete, Walls left the organization but later rejoined the NFF as special projects and eastern region coordinator. He was then promoted to director of public relations and, in 2002, became the NFF’s director of operations.

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