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I'm gonna toss this guys name out there. Don't know a ton about him but his team beat his old boss this year and held Wisconsin who tossed up 60 on Nebraksa to 16 in what was a 2 point loss. Guy looks like he could do something in a year or w given a chance.



Date Opponent / Event Location Time / Result

08/30/12 vs. Southern Utah Logan, Utah W, 34-3
09/07/12 vs. Utah Logan, Utah W, 27-20 (OT)
09/15/12 at Wisconsin Madison, Wis. L, 16-14
09/22/12 at Colorado State Fort Collins, Colo. W, 31-19
09/29/12 vs. UNLV (Homecoming) Logan, Utah W, 35-13
10/05/12 at BYU Provo, Utah L, 6-3
10/13/12 at San Jose State * San Jose, Calif. W, 49-27
10/20/12 vs. New Mexico State * Logan, Utah W, 41-7
10/27/12 at UTSA * San Antonio, Texas W, 48-17
11/03/12 vs. Texas State * Logan, Utah W, 38-7
11/17/12 at Louisiana Tech * Ruston, La. W, 48-41 (OT)
11/24/12 vs. Idaho * Logan, Utah W, 45-9
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Day: Saturday
Date: Nov. 24, 2012
Location: Logan, Utah
Time: 1:00 p.m. MT
No. 25 Utah State Clinches Outright WAC Championship and Wins School-Record 10th Game with 45-9 Drubbing of Idaho
The Aggies improved to 10-2, their first 10-win season in school history and won just their third outright conference championship with a 6-0 WAC reco

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Most of these guys want a big name not a good coach lol. Here was a guy that is also a proven winner but they want the guy with the name that will get the recruits.


North Dakota State head football coach Craig Bohl led the Bison to the program’s first NCAA Division I Football Championship with a 17-6 win over Sam Houston State on Jan. 7, 2012, and the Missouri Valley Football Conference title. NDSU tied the school record for wins with a 14-1 ledger and posted a 7-1 record in the MVFC.

The Bison had the Fargodome rocking with each of the three home NCAA playoff games, sending the decibel levels off the chart. The NDSU faithful then took Frisco, Texas, by storm for the national championship game. North Dakota State’s stingy defense allowed only 27 points in four playoff games, while the balanced offense featured a pair of 1,000-yard running backs and 1,000-yard wide receiver.

Bohl was named to the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Board of Trustees by vote of the membership at the organization’s 2012 convention. A finalist for the Eddie Robinson award, Bohl was named the 2011 AFCA Region 4 FCS and MVFC Bruce Craddock Coach of the Year.

Entering his 10th season, the tireless Bohl has a 75-31 record including a 16-8 record against nationally-ranked FCS teams, a 6-1 record in the FCS playoffs and 5-3 mark against Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams over the past six seasons -- including a 37-24 win at Minnesota in the 2011.
 
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We'll never look at him but when I was looking around at defensive minded head coaches this guy is definately and up and comer. Seems to have been a large part of Kyle Wittinghams success. Now that he's been gone 4 years his team had the much better season than his former boss. He also had a Utah state squad holding some good teams to low scores. I could dig that.
 
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DD dammit. Andersen. Most people spell it wrong, though. He's done a good job turning that program around. It took 2 years to see the benefits. People up in Logan love the guy. Present salary is $330,000. I thought he'd be a good fit for Kentucky, too.
 
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I tried Slice at least I got the first E.

At 330k I'd love to see us try and get him as our DC then. He seems to be a very solid DC.
 
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Slydell said:
DD dammit. Andersen. Most people spell it wrong, though. He's done a good job turning that program around. It took 2 years to see the benefits. People up in Logan love the guy. Present salary is $330,000. I thought he'd be a good fit for Kentucky, too.
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Now if we could see the future we all may be different. But if VANDY got a no name coach and kicked the crap out of us anyone can. Just have to get a coach that knows how to win.
 
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He's been pitched for Cal, CO, and writers tossed him out in this piece for UTX

Gary Andersen - Utah State




Before he became the head coach at Utah State, Andersen was a 10 year assistant at Utah, retained under the three successful, but very disparate, regimes of Ron McBride, Urban Meyer, and Kyle Whittingham. Not a bad cross section of coaches to grow under. He saw Utah's decay under the tenured McBride, the transformative revitalization of Meyer, and consolidation under Whittingham - the entire life cycle of a college program.

From a pure competency standpoint, there was no college defense doing more with less while Andersen was Utah's DC (2004-2008) and DL coach. He's also been a special teams coordinator.

At Utah State, Andersen took over a nightmare program in 2008 that had gone 19-62 in the previous seven years and hadn't seen a bowl since 1997. By his third year, he had them in a bowl. This year, Utah State is 10-2, won the WAC, and their two losses are 16-14 at Wisconsin and 6-3 at BYU. They're seven points away from an undefeated season. It's also worth noting that in the wide open WAC (Louisiana Tech, the league's 3rd place team, dropped 57 on Texas A&M), Andersen has the top ranked defense in the league by every meaningful measure. They allow only 15.2 points per game. The complexities of Big 12 offenses would elicit a yawn.

How did Andersen engineer this turnaround? Well, he appears to be a hell of a pure coach, for starters. But he also was ranked as Rivals #1 Recruiter in Non-BCS conferences in 2005. He's doing it in living rooms as much as on whiteboards. He gets the scraps of recruiting and that forces him to be elite at evaluation. And he's relentless in getting their signature.

Watch the video. Look at the resume. Does he know the game? Would you want to play for him? Given his track record, could he be successful at Texas? Forget name recognition. Look at the competencies. Would you bring him in for an interview?
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Apparently he loves Utah though, I would imagine he's a Mormon he's been coaching in Utah for 20 years.
 
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DD4ME said:
I'm gonna toss this guys name out there. Don't know a ton about him but his team beat his old boss this year and held Wisconsin who tossed up 60 on Nebraksa to 16 in what was a 2 point loss. Guy looks like he could do something in a year or w given a chance.



Date Opponent / Event Location Time / Result

08/30/12 vs. Southern Utah Logan, Utah W, 34-3
09/07/12 vs. Utah Logan, Utah W, 27-20 (OT)
09/15/12 at Wisconsin Madison, Wis. L, 16-14
09/22/12 at Colorado State Fort Collins, Colo. W, 31-19
09/29/12 vs. UNLV (Homecoming) Logan, Utah W, 35-13
10/05/12 at BYU Provo, Utah L, 6-3
10/13/12 at San Jose State * San Jose, Calif. W, 49-27
10/20/12 vs. New Mexico State * Logan, Utah W, 41-7
10/27/12 at UTSA * San Antonio, Texas W, 48-17
11/03/12 vs. Texas State * Logan, Utah W, 38-7
11/17/12 at Louisiana Tech * Ruston, La. W, 48-41 (OT)
11/24/12 vs. Idaho * Logan, Utah W, 45-9
Next Event
There Are No Upcoming Events
Last Event
vs. Idaho
W, 45-9
Day: Saturday
Date: Nov. 24, 2012
Location: Logan, Utah
Time: 1:00 p.m. MT
No. 25 Utah State Clinches Outright WAC Championship and Wins School-Record 10th Game with 45-9 Drubbing of Idaho
The Aggies improved to 10-2, their first 10-win season in school history and won just their third outright conference championship with a 6-0 WAC reco

Related Links
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Notes
Final Stats
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TV: ERT/Altitude

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I've heard his name mentioned on some of the Sports Call In shows here in Knoxville. He has a lot of respect among the Sports Writers and personalities. The general consensus is that he would want to stay on the West Coast and has a good shot at getting a vacant Pac 12 job if he wants it. He has announced that he is not interested in any other job. Of course, we've all heard that before! :)

He would bea good hire that the fan base here would hate, because he isn't a big name, but he is a damn fine coach. Needs a good OC though.
 
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Tenn Ted said:
I've heard his name mentioned on some of the Sports Call In shows here in Knoxville. He has a lot of respect among the Sports Writers and personalities. The general consensus is that he would want to stay on the West Coast and has a good shot at getting a vacant Pac 12 job if he wants it. He has announced that he is not interested in any other job. Of course, we've all heard that before! :)

He would bea good hire that the fan base here would hate, because he isn't a big name, but he is a damn fine coach. Needs a good OC though.
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From what I've been reading he lives Utah and passed up a Cal opening up to stay for pennies (300k).
Too damn bad we don't have a defensive TN guy like that hanging around willing to coach for couch change.
 
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Bronco is another good one as is Whit with the Utes. They both had rough seasons this year though.
 
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Slydell said:
Bronco is another good one as is Whit with the Utes. They both had rough seasons this year though.
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Really don't know much about them but Andersen seems to be doing better without Whit than Whit is without him. Andersen was the DC for Meyer.
 
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DD4ME said:
Really don't know much about them but Andersen seems to be doing better without Whit than Whit is without him. Andersen was the DC for Meyer.
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I was hoping we'd get Whit or Bronco when they hired Dooley. They did approach Whit, not sure if they went after Bronco or not. Hard to get some of these Mormons outta here.
 
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Andersen is probably more likely to head to Cal or Colorado than anyone else. He has done wonders at Utah State which is among the more difficult places to recruit to in college football. He will do well whereever he goes. Not one is likely to pry Whittingham out of Utah anytime soon. He played for BYU and has been with Utah for like two decades. Utah has struggled to make the transition to BCS level football, as has TCU and others. But both Andersen and Whittiingham are fine coaches. Look for Andersen to Cal first and then perhaps Colorado, which appears to be a total grease fire and may be the one school worse off going into a coaching search than TN was 3 years ago.
 
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Yeah, I was thinking Gary to Cal rather than across the mountains to CO. He's done a hell of a job up in Logan and might just stay there a bit longer. His name does keep popping up for about every coach opening.
 
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Slydell said:
I was hoping we'd get Whit or Bronco when they hired Dooley. They did approach Whit, not sure if they went after Bronco or not. Hard to get some of these Mormons outta here.
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I doubt anyone will get Mendenhall out of BYU. He's not just big on BYU but the LDS Church as well. Some believe he's using that coaching position as a springboard to a better position in the church, not the coaching ladder. But he's a fine coach. Independence is going to take a toll but he's done well.
 
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UtahVol said:
I doubt anyone will get Mendenhall out of BYU. He's not just big on BYU but the LDS Church as well. Some believe he's using that coaching position as a springboard to a better position in the church, not the coaching ladder. But he's a fine coach. Independence is going to take a toll but he's done well.
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I'd guess more true than not. You in northern Utah?
 
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Gary Anderson will be a phenomenal coach whenever he makes the jump. USU is impossible to recruit to because Logan stinks comparatively to Salt Lake and the Mormon kids all want to go to BYU. The fact that he is able to win at USU is a testament to his abilities.
 
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