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Peruna Punch quotes a website (www.footballscoop.com) as reporting SMU is talking to five candidates: LSU offensive coordinator/QB coach Jimbo Fisher, Nebraska QB coach Turner Gill, Washington S/special teams coach Bob Hauck, Cincinnati head coach Rick Minter and the QB coach at UCLA (Somebody Pearce).

If I wasn't such an ignoramus when it comes to computers, I might have found a bio for Pearce, and I would have posted their mugshots, too. But I am, so I didn't. Here are the bios for the other four from their schools' websites.

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JIMBO FISHER
LSU Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach
Season At LSU: Second
Alma Mater: Salem College (1989)

Jimbo Fisher continued to stake his claim as one of the nation's premier offensive coordinators last year as he developed LSU into one of the most productive offensive teams in the Southeastern Conference.

Last year, his first year with the Tigers, Fisher's influence on quarterbacks Josh Booty and Rohan Davey was nothing short of remarkable as Booty was named first team All-Southeastern Conference, while Davey earned Most Outstanding Offensive Player honors at the Peach Bowl.

The first-team All-SEC honor for Booty marked the first time since 1989 that an LSU player earned all-league honors at quarterback. For the season, Booty and Davey combined to complete 183-of-353 passes for 2,698 yards and 24 touchdowns. The 2,698 yards and 24 TD passes both rank second in school history. Booty and Davey also tied the LSU record by tossing four TD passes in a single-game last season. Davey threw four TD passes in LSU's overtime win over 11th-ranked Tennessee and Booty followed with four scoring passing in a win over Alabama.

In 2000, LSU ranked third in the SEC in passing offense with 245.3 yards per game and the Tigers were second in passing efficiency with a 129.4 rating. As a unit, the Tiger offense ranked fourth in the league in total offense with 376.4 yards per contest.

Prior to joining the Tigers, Fisher engineered one of the nation's most potent offensive attacks at Cincinnati in 1999. Cincinnati finished the 1999 season ranked No. 16 in the nation in total offense with an average of 424.4 yards per contest (172.2 rushing, 252.2 passing).

Before joining the Cincinnati staff in 1999, Fisher served as the quarterbacks coach at Auburn under Terry Bowden from 1993-98 where he tutored record-setting quarterbacks Stan White, Patrick Nix and Dameyune Craig, who is the only 3,000-yard passer in Auburn history. He helped lead Auburn to appearances in the 1996 Outback, 1996 Independence and 1998 Peach Bowls.

Fisher, a native of Clarksburg, W. Va., also served as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Samford for two years (1991-92) before joining the Auburn staff. He started his coaching career as a graduate assistant tutoring quarterbacks at Samford from 1988-90.

In college, Fisher played quarterback for Terry Bowden for three seasons, two at Salem College (1985-86) and one at Samford (1987). While at Samford he set the national record for touchdowns in a season with 34 and was named the Division III National Player of the Year. He also set 13 school passing and total offense records.

Following college, Fisher played for one season with the Chicago Bruisers of the Arena Football League in 1988.

Fisher, who graduated from Salem College in 1989, is married to the former Candace Coogler. The couple had their first child, Trey, in April of this year.

THE FISHER FILE
Year at LSU: Second (appointed Dec. 6, 1999)
Birthdate: Oct. 9, 1965, at Clarksburg, W.V.
Wife: Candace
Child: Trey
High School: Liberty High
College: Salem College '89

1988-90 Samford (graduate assistant/quarterbacks)
1991-92 Samford (offensive coordinator/quarterbacks)
1993-98 Auburn (quarterbacks)
1999 Cincinnati (offensive coordinator/quarterbacks)
2000- LSU (offensive coordinator/quarterbacks)

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TURNER GILL
Nebraska Quarterbacks Coach
Alma Mater: Nebraska

Turner Gill, a former All-Big Eight signal caller for the Huskers, returns for his 10th season as Nebraska's quarterbacks coach.

Gill will again work with senior quarterback Eric Crouch for the fourth season in 2001. Under Gill's tutelage, Crouch has joined the most elite list of quarterbacks, as he is less than 200 yards from becoming NU's all-time total offense leader.

Last season, Crouch guided the Huskers to a 10-2 record while moving into 13th place overall on the NU career rushing list. With 2,319 rushing yards, Crouch also passed Steve Taylor's school record of 2,125 rushing yards by a quarterback, while his 2,971 passing yards ranks sixth at NU.

As one of the fastest players on the team, Crouch, who owns a 24-5 record as the team's signal caller, led NU to its 14th NCAA rushing title, as the Huskers averaged 349.3 rushing yards per game. Nebraska was also sixth in the nation in total offense per game (459.9 ypg), as Crouch completed 75-of-156 passes for 1,101 yards and 11 touchdowns.

In 1997, Scott Frost orchestrated the Nebraska option attack to perfection. Frost became the first Husker quarterback and only the 10th in NCAA history to pass and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. His 2,332 yards of total offense ranked as the second-best total in school history, trailing Jerry Tagge's 1971 total by one yard. Frost finished his two-year run as NU's signal caller with a 24-2 record, including a national title.

In 1995, Husker signal caller Tommie Frazier was a consensus first-team All-American, won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, finished as the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy and was a Davey O'Brien Award finalist. Frazier also became Gill's first all-conference quarterback in four seasons at Nebraska and set several school records, including the career total offense mark.

In his rookie season as a full-time member of the coaching staff, Gill watched as Frazier became the first player in Nebraska history to start at quarterback as a true freshman in 1992. Frazier went on to earn Big Eight Newcomer-of-the-Year accolades. A year later, Frazier earned second-team All-Big Eight honors.

Gill's development of excellent quarterbacks is far from his only asset to the Husker staff. He is regarded as a strong recruiter, covering Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Kentucky and north central and eastern Texas for Nebraska. Along with Dan Young, Gill also heads up the "Hire a Husker" program, which matches NU student-athletes with local businesses for summer employment.

As Nebraska's starting signal caller from 1981 through 1983, Gill led the Huskers to a 28-2 mark, including a 20-0 league record, and three conference titles.

A three-time All-Big Eight pick and a second-team All-American as a senior, Gill was the key to the Huskers' high-octane offense in 1983, a season in which NU I-back Mike Rozier won the Heisman Trophy and Gill finished fourth in the voting for collegiate football's top award. The 1983 team finished 12-1 and second in the final polls. In his four-year career (1980-83), Gill completed 231 of 428 passes for 3,317 yards, 34 touchdowns and a .540 completion percentage and rushed for 1,317 yards and 18 TDs. He is sixth on NU's all-time total offense chart
with 4,634 yards.

A talented all-around athlete, Gill spent two seasons with the Canadian Football League's Montreal Concordes (1984-85) and three years (1986-88) in the Cleveland and Detroit minor league baseball systems. He left baseball and returned to his native state to the University of North Texas in 1989, where he was a volunteer assistant football coach and earned a B.A. in behavior analysis in 1990.

Gill returned to Nebraska in 1990 and served as a graduate assistant on the Husker staff, then moved to SMU as a graduate assistant for the 1991 campaign.

Here is another one according to the list on the "footballscoops" site:


<B>Bruce Chambers</B>
Running Backs
Fourth season at Texas

Hometown: Dallas, Texas
High School: Carter HS (Dallas, Texas)
College: North Texas ’82
Years in Coaching: 18
Wife: Cathy

One of the most respected high school coaches in Texas for 14 years, Bruce Chambers has continued that success at The University of Texas. He is in his fourth season as the Longhorns’ running backs coach.


In only three seasons at UT, Chambers has coached two of the eight 1,000-yard rushers (Ricky Williams/Hodges Mitchell) in school history and become the first position coach since Fred Akers (with Roosevelt Leaks and Earl Campbell in ‘73 and ‘74-75, respectively) to have two different backs earn first-team all-conference honors in three consecutive seasons (Ricky Williams in 1998 and Hodges Mitchell in 1999-2000).


Texas featured one of the Big 12’s top backfields in Chambers’ first year with the Horns as Ricky Williams led the nation in rushing (193.1 yards per game) and posted the fifth-highest rushing total in NCAA history (2,124 yards). Williams went on to earn Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year honors and first-team All-America honors for the second straight year. He was a first-round draft pick (No. 5 overall) of the New Orleans Saints in 1999. Williams’ success was due in part to his lead blocker and versatile backfield mate Ricky Brown, who earned honorable mention All-Big 12 honors despite limited carries in ‘98.


Bruce Chambers' Coaching Assignments
Years Position, Institution

1998- Running Backs, Texas
1996-97 Athletics Director/Head Coach, Dallas Carter HS
1993-95 Asst. Head Coach/Off. Coord., Dallas Carter HS
1989-92 Defensive Coordinator, Dallas Carter HS
1986-88 Junior Varsity Offensive Coord., Dallas Carter HS
1984-85 Freshman Assistant Coach, Dallas Carter HS


Bruce Chambers' College Bowl Experience
Years Bowl

2000 Holiday Bowl, Texas
2000 Cotton Bowl, Texas
1999 Cotton Bowl, Texas


In 1999, Mitchell stepped to the forefront of the Longhorn backfield and not only earned first-team All-Big 12 accolades under Chambers’ direction, but also became only the eighth running back in UT history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season and the first back in school history to both rush for 1,000 yards and tally 300 receiving yards in a single season. Mitchell’s 1,343 rushing yards in 1999 also marked the fifth-highest rushing output in UT history, while his 1,824 all-purpose yards rank seventh on the school’s all-time single-season chart.


Under Chambers’ direction, Mitchell again earned first-team All-Big 12 honors in 2000. Mitchell posted a pair of 200-yard rushing games, set a Big 12 and UT single-game all-purpose yardage record (375 at Kansas), registered another 1,000-yard rushing season (1,118/No. 9 on the UT all-time list) and posted the third-most all-purpose yards in a season (1,931) on UT record. Mitchell finished his career ranked sixth on the UT all-time rushing list (2,664 yards) and fourth on the Longhorns’ career all-purpose yardage list (4,945).


In Chambers’ three seasons, the Longhorns have turned in 13 games of 200 or more yards rushing, including a 434-yard rushing day against Rice in 1998 and a 396-yard effort at Kansas in 2000.


Chambers joined the UT staff from Carter High School in Dallas, where he helped coach one of the state’s most successful football programs for 14 seasons. He was the head coach and athletics director during his final two years and also taught speech and journalism classes at the school.


Chambers’ tie to high school coaching and his understanding of young men, parents and the job of the high school coach, made him a prime candidate when Brown was forming his staff at Texas.


In his 14 seasons at Carter, the Cowboys advanced to the state playoffs each year, won one state title (1988), reached the state championship game twice, earned four regional titles and claimed 13 district crowns.


A graduate of North Texas, Chambers was Carter’s head coach in 1996 and ’97, compiling a record of 18-6. His Cowboys’ teams were bi-district finalists and district champions both years.


From 1993-95, Chambers served as Carter’s varsity offensive coordinator and assistant head coach. The Cowboys were area finalists and district champions during all three of those years.


Prior to that, Chambers coached on the defensive side of the ball from 1989-92 and served as the unit’s coordinator. During that time, Carter was a state semifinalist and two-time district champion.


A four-year letterman in football as a wide receiver and a two-time letterwinner in track and field at North Texas, Chambers earned his degree in journalism in 1982. He began his coaching career in 1984 as a freshman coach at Carter. He then moved over to tutor the junior varsity’s offense from 1986-88.


While at Carter, Chambers helped develop future NFL players Jesse Armstead (LB, New York Giants) and Greg Hill (RB, Kansas City Chiefs/Detroit Lions).


Chambers’ wife, Cathy, is a flight attendant.






[This message has been edited by PK (edited 11-20-2001).]

Chambers is a stud. His DISD background would be a nice help with Dallas recruiting