Interviews

So the news this week is that we actually had some interviews! There are more scheduled for next week as well. Here are the candidates we have so far:

1. DeWayne Walker (Interim Head Coach and DC at UCLA)
2. Rick Neuheisel (Baltimore Ravens OC and former UW and Colorado head coach)
3. Norm Chow (Tennessee Titans OC)
4. John Harbaugh (Philadelphia Eagles Secondary Coach )

I had never heard of John Harbaugh before. The other guys on the list are no surprise, but who is this dude? Besides knowing that he is Stanford Head Coach Jim Harbaugh's brother, here are some of the relevant background from his biograhpy on Wikipedia.

He's been in the NFL for nine years coaching at Philadelphia. Before that he was an assistant at the University of Cincinnati for 8 seasons and Western Michigan for 4 years (plus a few other stops in between). Never been a DC as far as I can tell, much less a head coach. It's strange that his name has never come up before and I'm wondering why he is interviewing?

Neuheisel interviewed today. I don't see Rick getting the gig, just because I can't see Guerrero hiring someone who had NCAA problems in the past. Wasn't that one of the major reasons he fired Toldeo? The talk around the program is that this was to satisfy a very vocal and influential group of boosters and former players. Who knows, maybe he'll impress Dan. I don't see it happening.

I still think Chow is in the lead for this thing. A few other names still popping up are Brian Kelly of Cincinnati and Mike Price of UTEP (former WSU head coach). Bronco Mendenhall of BYU and June Jones of Hawaii were also mentioned this week but both have been pretty adamant (at least publicly) that they are not interested in the position.

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