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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We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.
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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.
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We follow NCAA rules here at Texas A&M. I believe Terrence did not explain himself well. We will do all that we can, within the rules of the NCAA, to help our players be successful on the field, in the classrooms and in life.
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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.