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A Chattanooga football assistant coach no longer has his job after he disparaged Stacey Abrams on social media. The school announced Thursday morning that Chris Malone had been fired after a Tuesday night tweet calling Abrams “Fat Albert” along with other insults because of the results of Georgia’s Senate elections. There is absolutely no evidence that any significant voter fraud took place in Georgia in either November or January. Abrams, a former Georgia state legislator and… Source link

The question the Jacksonville Jaguars should be asking isn’t whether Urban Meyer is worth a whopping $12 million per year to coach the team, as ProFootballTalk reports he is seeking. It’s whether he is worthy of a golden opportunity to use the Jags’ considerable current resources — four top-50 draft picks, including the No. 1 overall, and some $81 million in salary-cap space — to reconstruct the roster on the fly. If so, then even that much money doesn’t matter. (Meyer would be one… Source link

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Former Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman made his first public comments since being fired over the weekend after four years at the helm of the Longhorns football program. Texas won the Alamo Bowl 55-23 against Colorado on Tuesday night and Herman was out of the job four days later. Texas announced Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian as Herman’s replacement on Saturday afternoon. List: Latest on Longhorns coaching staff for the Sarkisian… Source link

Texas head coach Tom Herman has been fired. The university announced the news on Saturday in a statement. The school said that Longhorns athletic director Chris Del Conte recommended moving on from Herman to president Jay Hartzell. The news comes just days after Texas trounced Colorado, 55-23, in the Alamo Bowl to finish the 2020 season with a 7-3 record. That win gave Herman a 32-18 record over four seasons, including a 22-13 mark in Big 12 play. With the move, Texas now owes Herman and his… Source link

New Orleans Pelicans coach Stan Van Gundy knows fighting social injustice and inequality can lead to some uncomfortable conversations. Van Gundy — who has used to Twitter account to speak out and educate others on racial and social issues — spoke about the difficulty of discussing white privilege with other white people in an interview with Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated. The key, according to Van Gundy, is explaining that just because a white person has privilege doesn’t mean that… Source link

Bret Bielema is returning to the Big Ten … and the Midwest. Bielema was announced as the 26th football head coach in Illinois history Saturday. Bielema — an Illinois native — takes over a program previously run by Lovie Smith, who was fired Sunday after five seasons with the team. Bielema was rumored to be among the many coaches Illinois would consider for the position. His contract with Illinois will run six seasons and include an annual salary of $4.2 million. Illinois director of… Source link

Former Baylor coach Art Briles resigned from his post as the head coach of Mount Vernon High School on Monday, the school announced. Briles, the disgraced former Bears coach who was in charge during a massive sexual assault scandal at the university, had been with the Texas high school for two seasons. Prior to that, he had a short coaching stint in Italy. Briles finished with a 20-6 overall record at Mount Vernon. They fell in the Texas 3A Div. I state semifinals last week. “After coaching… Source link

Gerrel Williams has been banned by American Youth Football. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) A youth football organization has banned a coach for life after video surfaced this week of him assaulting a player during a game. The video shows a coach of a 9-and-under team from Savannah, Georgia, twice striking one of his players in the helmet. Both an incident report obtained by Yahoo Sports and the coach’s now-former employer identified him as Gerrel Williams. Someone shared this with me. It was on… Source link

Leading hapless Detroit by 10 points with less than three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, it looked like Chicago might win for the first time since Oct. 18. Then the defense stopped playing, Mitchell Trubisky started fumbling and no one may ever properly explain what Allen Robinson was doing on third-and-3. Next thing you know, the Lions, who had just fired their head coach Matt Patricia, were celebrating a 34-30 victory, leaving the Bears at 5-7 and losers of six straight. It’s… Source link

Derek Mason’s time at Vanderbilt has come to an end. Vanderbilt athletic director Candice Storey Lee announced Sunday that the university has parted ways with Mason, who was in his seventh season as the head coach of the Commodores. The 2020 season has been a struggle for Vanderbilt. The team dropped to 0-8 with a 41-0 loss to Missouri on Saturday. Mason ends his head-coaching run at Vandy with a 27-55 overall record, a 10-46 mark in SEC play and two bowl game appearances. “On behalf of the… Source link