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MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:27 pm
by MrMustang1965
TCU co-offensive coordinator Justin Fuente has been hired as head coach of the Memphis Tigers.
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:28 pm
by smupony94
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:28 pm
by skyscraper
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/20 ... um=twitterTCU co-offensive coordinator Justin Fuente, whose name hadn't surfaced from the time the University of Memphis began its search for a new football coach more than a week ago, will be introduced as the program's 23rd football coach Thursday at a noon press conference at the U of M, according to sources familiar with the process.
Fuente, 35, a 1999 Murray State graduate, will replace Larry Porter, who was fired after two seasons at his alma mater. Porter went 3-21 in his two seasons and was dismissed after the team's 44-7 Conference USA loss at Southern Miss Nov. 26.
Fuente was chosen over Alabama offensive coordinator Jim McElwain, who was reportedly the leading candidate for the job late Tuesday. McElwain has spent the past four seasons on Nick Saban's staff and impressed the leaders of the search committee during an interview earlier this week in New York.
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:30 pm
by SMU1523
He was brought up as a potential candidate for the recently vacant SMU HC opening on the Coop & Nate Show, ESPN 103.3...
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:19 pm
by LakeHighlandsPony
Was this guy a QB at OU?
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:20 pm
by skyscraper
Nick will be upset. Was mentioning Fuente earlier today for SMU.
MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:20 pm
by NickSMU17
Thought he would be a candidate...tcu is upset he is leaving...
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:21 pm
by SMU 86
We play them next year so we will see how he does.
MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:22 pm
by NickSMU17
Memphis has a long road to be respectable...they need to make a committment to football like they do in basketball
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:36 pm
by leopold
LakeHighlandsPony wrote:Was this guy a QB at OU?
Yup.
It's funny. The QB coach for the Pitt Steelers, who was at one time the OC under Tommy West at UM, said publically that he was interested in the job. He was very qualified, had been to Memphis, and was sporting a Super Bowl ring.
He was known to have talked to the school and would have been an obvious candidate only his name stopped showing up. Rumor was he wanted some guarantees for the program before he took the job, and Memphis wouldn't budge.
Methinks Memphis found someone to take the job with no real improvements to the program:
In a word, a sucker.
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:54 pm
by sbsmith
leopold wrote:LakeHighlandsPony wrote:Was this guy a QB at OU?
Yup.
It's funny. The QB coach for the Pitt Steelers, who was at one time the OC under Tommy West at UM, said publically that he was interested in the job. He was very qualified, had been to Memphis, and was sporting a Super Bowl ring.
He was known to have talked to the school and would have been an obvious candidate only his name stopped showing up. Rumor was he wanted some guarantees for the program before he took the job, and Memphis wouldn't budge.
Methinks Memphis found someone to take the job with no real improvements to the program:
In a word, a sucker.
That's too bad, don't they have FedEx money?
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:02 pm
by reddevil
Fuente is a good hire.
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:19 pm
by leopold
They kinda sorta have FedEx money.
FedEx has donated alot of money to the buisiness school to help train certain positions that the company needs, they have donated money to put their name on the NBA basketball arena the U of M plays in, and they have offered to become a major sponser of the Big East in return for Memphis' inclusion and major promotion of their company in a lot of big cities; i.e., they have been smart about their donations and have always gotten something back in return.
FedEx does a lot of the major lifting around the city of Memphis, but they don't simply hand over money arbitrarily. I honestly think that if Memphis ever showed any vision then they would have a sponser, but until that happens I think they are, for the most part, on their own.
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:22 am
by Kynd Tulsa Phan
MOUNT USA ON THE RISE!!!!!
Re: MEMPHIS HIRES FUENTE FROM TCU FOR HEAD COACH
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:07 am
by redpony
Good hire by Memphis. I hope he does well.
GO PONIES!!!