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Navy has announced that longtime football head coach Ken Niumatalolo will not be back next year

Wow he will be tough to replace after 15 years of winning and 11 bowl appearances, but I guess this is one of those "what have you done for me lately?" situations.

Good luck doing any better than Coach Ken finding players with 1400 SAT scores that are going to have to serve in the military.

It takes a special kid to play at the Service academies. Good news is that we might see a normal offense instead of that option offense that has chewed us up over the years.

LakeHighlandsPony wrote:Good luck doing any better than Coach Ken finding players with 1400 SAT scores that are going to have to serve in the military.

GET to serve

Bergermeister wrote:

LakeHighlandsPony wrote:Good luck doing any better than Coach Ken finding players with 1400 SAT scores that are going to have to serve in the military.

GET to serve

Amen to that!

I'd expect another option coach at Navy. Some expressed similar relief when Paul Johnson left for Georgia Tech, until they found Niumatalolo. It's a system that allows undersized teams to compete against some more talented opponents.

Ikus wrote:I'd expect another option coach at Navy. Some expressed similar relief when Paul Johnson left for Georgia Tech, until they found Niumatalolo. It's a system that allows undersized teams to compete against some more talented opponents.

Agree

LakeHighlandsPony wrote:Good luck doing any better than Coach Ken finding players with 1400 SAT scores that are going to have to serve in the military.

You mean "...that are going to get to serve in the military."

Amen to that!!

Oldmins wrote:

LakeHighlandsPony wrote:Good luck doing any better than Coach Ken finding players with 1400 SAT scores that are going to have to serve in the military.

You mean "...that are going to get to serve in the military."

I like 'choose to serve' also

Anybody else here serve? 8 years as an officer, 10th Mountain Division, Operation Enduring Freedom, infantry school, ranger school, airborne school, air assault school, etc. In other words the real "[deleted]." It's a choice, the choice is different today than it was during my time.

U.S. Navy, LTjg, Supply Corps on the USS Sampson (DDG-10), a Guided Missile Destroyer, in the late Sixties and early seventies. Deployed 3x to the Mediterranean.

Ship Motto: "Fortes Fortuna Juvat" = Fortune Favors the Brave

Water Pony wrote:U.S. Navy, LTjg, Supply Corps on the USS Sampson (DDG-10), a Guided Missile Destroyer, in the late Sixties and early seventies. Deployed 3x to the Mediterranean.

Ship Motto: "Fortes Fortuna Juvat" = Fortune Favors the Brave

I didn't but my dad did in WW2. I have his card showing he participated in DDay.

U.S. Navy, LT(jg) Damage Control Officer on USS Firedrake (AE-14), ammunition ship, Viet Nam '69 & '70. Rearmed carriers and destroyers off coast of Nam.