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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We certainly think that's big. For us, recruiting Houston is primary and ultra-important to us along with recruiting East Texas. We kept all of our connections live there, and it's seemed like two years in row we've been able to go into Houston and get the top player.
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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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I like it a lot better coaching him than facing him. He's a good athlete that can catch the ball, run with it and make things happen.
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Are we there yet? I can't say that, but we're a lot closer than we were. Hopefully we'll take another step this year.
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Yes, we take care of our kids, but we don't do anything outside of NCAA rules.
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We did a little bit against each other and worked a little bit on Clemson today. It was good preparation and they came back pretty good from last night's workout. We started subtly working on Clemson yesterday and today.
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These 14 players were selected by their teammates and they are a very important part of this team. They provide needed input and assistance in the way we operate as a team.
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This is probably the most complete game we've played all year.
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After evaluating our defense, I felt like it was in the best interest of our football program to make a change at defensive coordinator. I think Carl is an outstanding person and an excellent coach, but for whatever reason, we were not effective on defense.
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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.
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Sometimes when you get in a rhythm, you're in that zone. This was Reggie McNeal's zone today. He broke some records today, and it's probably not going to be the last record he breaks this year.
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If they're prideful, it helps tremendously. That's certainly a gut-check.
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I was impressed with how far we were able to get along on 15 days.
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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.