Dennis Franchione
Dennis Franchione
Dennis Wayne Franchione, also known as Coach Fran, is an American football coach. He is the former head football coach at Texas State University, a position he held from 1990 to 1991, when the school was known as Southwest Texas State University, and resumed from 2011 to 2015. Franchione has also served as the head football coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, Pittsburg State University, the University of New Mexico, Texas Christian University, the University of Alabama, and Texas...
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With eight returning starters on both sides, we have a little more experience to take in a setting like that. Probably very few people realized Utah was a BCS-caliber team at that time, and that wasn't much fun. ... The biggest plus is maturity and experience, which we couldn't claim at a lot of positions last season.
care ncaa outside
Yes, we take care of our kids, but we don't do anything outside of NCAA rules.
across strong
There are no weaknesses. You go position-by-position with them, and they are strong across the board.
speed
This will put more speed on the field.
games play two
...With 9:36 left in the game, in retrospect we might have gone for two because we ended up with three more plays on offense the rest of the game. It's a lot easier looking back and analyzing going for two.
son doubt flattery
They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.
reality
It's the reality of our business.
tight
We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.
matters solid
The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.
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We know Oklahoma State has some talent at quarterback. We saw Bobby Reid out of high school, and he's going to be a great player. Al Pena looked good while he was in there last week against Missouri. We're just not sure what they may be doing at that position.
college direction far football nickel seeing sets situations
We are seeing far more one-back sets and far more need to be in nickel situations in today's college football than we are seeing two-back sets. We're just kind of basing it on what we are seeing the most and working the other direction basing with the 4-3 and working out to the nickel.
past power quite
We didn't have a power back in the past quite like him.
complete game played
This is probably the most complete game we've played all year.
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Coach Snyder did one of the greatest coaching jobs in the history of collegiate football at Kansas State. He did it with class, and we will miss him in the Big 12 Conference.