4 out of the last 5 yrs they’ve won 4 games or less. I like him but no AD would keep a coach around with a record like that
That's fair too.
Not saying his recent record doesn't justify his firing. I'm just curious who you bring in that can be as successful as he had been over so many years.
Relevant, but not as much as Navy’s Commander-in-Chief records in the last 7 years:
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Would it matter? Their rosters are huge. The bigger issue is top players don't want to go there.
This is totally uncalled for. Gladchuk could not wait until after they went back to the campus? I mean, the man gave 15 years of his life to the academy for this? The Navy needs to re-examine this move.
Ex-Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo surprised by sudden firing: 'I thought we stood for something different'
Ken Niumatalolo said Monday that Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk fired him almost immediately after they fell to Army in double overtime on Saturday afternoon.sports.yahoo.com
Sounds like it was pretty brutal. It was not just after the game, it was literally in the locker room right after the game ended.
Interesting recruiting differences at the service academies.
"Because tuition is free at the Naval Academy (essentially every student is on “full scholarship”), committed football players don’t sign a Letter of Intent or anything that actually “binds” them to the school. So until someone arrives at Annapolis in June, he isn’t technically “committed” to the school. It has also cost Navy a recruit in the past well after Signing Day, when a scholarship unexpectedly opens at another school."
How National Signing Day is different at a service academy | FOX Sports
It's completely unlike anything else in college football
Kinda cool he also replaced Littrell who was also Leach lineage…
Especially if he is a very good coach! Did you ever notice how guys who are good at their jobs find it easier to get forgiveness than guys who aren’t as good?
Yes. No one wants to forgive a lousy coach. But there are limits I suppose. No one is giving Art Briles a job...yet.
Typical BC move by Gladchuk.
Navy made a huge mistake joining the AAC. When they were independent they could get in their "required" CiC plus Notre Dame games and fill out the remaining schedule with enough winnable games (lots of directional teams) to ensure bowl eligibility. They could also ensure that they weren't playing too often against those teams so the coaches and players couldn't get comfortable facing the option offense. Now most of the AAC teams know Navy's system well and how to prepare for it. Meanwhile Army went in the other direction and has had much more success since going independent. If Gladchuck was smart they would leave the AAC and try to negotiate a joint TV deal with Army.
Actually, Army left CUSA after the 2004 season and had 1 winning season in the next 12 years. Army has turned around due to Jeff Monken. Navy went to the AAC because their AD thought it would be difficult to schedule as an independent in the future.
That's true, but it's because it took Army a while to find the right mix. In the early independent years they tried to play a normal college offense against a relatively difficult schedule. They can't do that because they can recruit athletes, but they couldn't sustain a passing attack as they lack advanced skill position recruits and the academy's PT requirements mean their lines are often 30-50 lbs. below the opposition. They usually had 4-5 what we would now call P5 teams on the non-CiC docket and were pretty beat up by the end of the year.
Navy has or at least had, a separate tv deal from the AAC. There problem is similar to Army’s in that it is much tougher to recruit the same level of player that their opponents get. They occasionally get a special athlete and they can be very good but if they don’t they will struggle. Both Army and Navy like playing around the country for various reasons. Air Force has never gotten hung up on that same view and has been happy in the MW.
It was just the Army Navy game that was kept out of the AAC contract.