UC football seek new coach after Watson Brown bolts for Rice

in 1980 Ralph Staab was fired after two successive two and nine seasons. Then, Mike Gottfried scotch taped the program back together going six and five in both 1981 and 82 in december of last year. He decided to go to Kansas of the Big eight. And now after just one year, Watson Air will fly to Houston and Rice University giving you see four coaches in the last five years. We’ve been through *** couple of changes since I’ve been here, but I believe strongly that in each case the program has, has come through it. But it’s uh, it is *** problem until you have arrived bob. I think that is one of the problems that you face. If we were *** team that could compete not to say that Rice is, but for the national championship, which is one of the things of course that Mike Godfrey was looking at Watson leaves with nothing but good things to say about McGee and the university. But his real feelings are with the players. I feel for every single one of them. I went through that myself when I was *** senior and it’s not easy and it’s not easy on me either fred. It may seem like it is, but it’s not, it’s not at all. This has been *** very tough day for me and uh, I know this, anything I can ever do to help them. I’ll do it with all my heart. The problem still remains that young, talented uprising coaches such as Mike Godfried and Watson Brown still see the University of Cincinnati football program as *** stepping stone to bigger and better things. And until the university can draw more people, give it more support and give it that big time college football atmosphere, this trend will continue from the UC campus. I’m fred Kalil Action Five sports.

Archives: UC football seek new coach after Watson Brown bolts for Rice

Updated: 1:48 PM EST Nov 28, 2022

The Cincinnati football program finds itself in a familiar place: In search of a new head coach in late November.Sunday, news broke that Luke Fickell, who had helmed the Bearcats for six seasons, was heading to Madison, Wisconsin to become the head coach for the Wisconsin Badgers.But, this isn’t the first time the Bearcats have been without a head coach in late November.On Nov. 22, 1983, Brown resigned after just one season with the Bearcats, going 4-6-1, to take a job with Rice University, in Houston.Brown’s move didn’t work out particularly well: He went just 4-18 in two seasons with the Owls before heading to Vanderbilt for five seasons until, ultimately, ending his coaching career at UAB, from 1996-2006.The Bearcats, who at the time of Brown’s departure had four head coaches in five years from 1980-1984, followed Brown with consecutive five-year tenures from Dave Currey (1984-88) and Tim Murphy (1989-1993).Brown’s one-year stint at the helm of the Bearcats is the shortest of the modern era and was the first since Frank Marty spent just one year as UC head coach in 1917.

CINCINNATI —

The Cincinnati football program finds itself in a familiar place: In search of a new head coach in late November.

Sunday, news broke that Luke Fickell, who had helmed the Bearcats for six seasons, was heading to Madison, Wisconsin to become the head coach for the Wisconsin Badgers.

But, this isn’t the first time the Bearcats have been without a head coach in late November.

On Nov. 22, 1983, Brown resigned after just one season with the Bearcats, going 4-6-1, to take a job with Rice University, in Houston.

Brown’s move didn’t work out particularly well: He went just 4-18 in two seasons with the Owls before heading to Vanderbilt for five seasons until, ultimately, ending his coaching career at UAB, from 1996-2006.

The Bearcats, who at the time of Brown’s departure had four head coaches in five years from 1980-1984, followed Brown with consecutive five-year tenures from Dave Currey (1984-88) and Tim Murphy (1989-1993).

Brown’s one-year stint at the helm of the Bearcats is the shortest of the modern era and was the first since Frank Marty spent just one year as UC head coach in 1917.

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