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San Jose State hires Ken Niumatalolo as new football coach

Posted on 1/22/24 at 11:19 am
Posted by iBack8569
Member since Dec 2021
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Posted on 1/22/24 at 11:19 am
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Niumatalolo, 58, replaces Brent Brennan, who left for Arizona on Thursday, and brings extensive experience to the Spartans but will vary his offense and is not expected to run the triple option, sources told ESPN.


Disappointing...dude is a Paul Johnson disciple who made his career with the triple option. And now he wants to shelve it to try and recruit against everyone else. I wish him the best, but this will flop.
Posted by ProjectP2294
South St. Louis city
Member since May 2007
70777 posts
Posted on 1/22/24 at 11:41 am to
Hiring an option coach to run the option at San Jose State would have been a bad move on its own.

Hiring an option coach to not run the option seems even worse somehow.
Posted by Mike the Tiger 1999
Weston, Florida
Member since Jul 2009
1894 posts
Posted on 1/22/24 at 11:44 am to
this is the guy who held non-contact practices during August 2020 training camp for his his college football team (made up of 18-22 y/o future US Navy officers) bc he was afraid they would all get Covid.

ofc the decision to not go live at all leading up to the season opener proved disastrous and BYU blew out Navy, 55-3 lmao



Posted by AD23
Lab
Member since Jun 2012
646 posts
Posted on 1/22/24 at 1:16 pm to
this is such a bad hire
Posted by iBack8569
Member since Dec 2021
1199 posts
Posted on 1/23/24 at 10:09 am to
Ken's OC hire is Craig Stutzmann, Utah Tech OC.

This keeps looking worse...

Utah Tech averaged 28.4ppg, 425ypg, 310 passing ypg, and the team finished 2-8. QBs combined for 20 passing TDs and 15 INTs...

The Spartan defense better be ready to play.
Posted by Overbrook
Member since May 2013
6103 posts
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:10 am to
It looks like they went the dreaded “he won’t leave” route. But he had some success and he’s apparently open-minded to new things, so it may work out.
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