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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Mike is probably one of the nation's elite running backs, and arguably the top running back in the state of Texas. One of the things that sticks out to me is that he's a pretty complete back coming out of high school.
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Obviously, he can run and do a lot of things with the ball in his hands. But he's a good receiver, he catches the ball very well. The other thing that really catches your eye is he's a good blocker. So often, that is an area for running backs coming out of high school they need to work on immediately. Mike is pretty good at it and that's a bonus.
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He never really wavered. Obviously, when you've got a team that played for the national championship three years in a row hammering you, it takes some intestinal fortitude to stand up to that and play close to home where your family can see you play. Mike stood right in there all the way through this process.
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Reggie certainly had a fantastic game throwing and running the football and really only played 2 1/2 quarters to accomplish all of that.
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I think this class reflects we did a very good job of meeting our needs.
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It is monitored and audited to the dime. There are all kinds of checks and balances and procedures to make sure there is no abuse of the system.
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I think they have a lot of confidence in the history of this program.
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I think guys are still confident they can make plays. They know they need to make them. They get frustrated when they don't and that's true of every football team that goes through any of the things we're going through.
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Stephen has had an outstanding spring. He took that game and a half at the end of the season and used it to create a springboard into this year.
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Jerrod is certainly an exciting prospect at quarterback, and that is the only position we have really thought about Jerrod at.
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I thought there was no way they've got that many scholarships available. I didn't think their senior class was that big.
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We need to play. We don't need to play a game, take a week off, play a game, take another week off. That's not a very good schedule for us.
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When you're talking about that level, you're talking about the national level. You're talking about the elite teams in the nation. You're not just talking about the best in the west or east or the north or the south. We're talking about great football programs.