Archive for January, 2009

Jan200923

joeperson

5

McKinley hamstrung at Senior Bowl

Bad news for Kenny McKinley, who will miss Saturday’s Senior Bowl with a hamstring injury, according to the Mobile Press-Register.
That’s a bum deal for McKinley, who is the type of prospect who really could have improved his draft stock with a good week in Mobile. It sounds like McKinley was ruled out after Wednesday’s practice, [...]

Jan200921

joeperson

7

Updates on Lawing, Rychleski

Alabama’s Nick Saban has hired an assistant coach away from an SEC rival – but, no, it’s not Brad Lawing.
Bringing on Lawing would have created much less of a stir.
Alabama announced Wednesday that Auburn linebackers coach James Willis has switched sides in the state rivalry. The former Tigers player, the lone holdover from Tommy Tuberville’s [...]

Jan200920

joeperson

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Source: Lawing talking to Alabama

Updating USC’s coaching shuffle has become a daily – sometimes hourly – task this offseason.
Was told today that Gamecocks defensive line coach Brad Lawing has had contact with Alabama about a defensive position on Nick Saban’s staff.
Saban had two defensive openings after Kevin Steele left for Clemson and Lance Thompson went to Tennessee, although the [...]

Jan200920

joeperson

2

Jay Graham — his other career

Found this online from the Baltimore Sun and couldn’t resist: New USC assistant Jay Graham decided to get into coaching following a brief career as a … sportswriter.
Didn’t know about this nugget yesterday when I spoke to Graham, so don’t know what caused him to leave the profession.
Could’ve been the long hours, low pay and [...]

Jan200919

joeperson

2

Graham in, Rychleski out?

USC has hired former Tennessee tailback Jay Graham as its new running backs coach, the school announced today.
That’s not a big surprise: Graham was one of two main candidates for the job (Jeep Hunter was the other) and he had the benefit of having played against Steve Spurrier’s Florida teams in the 1990s.
Here’s the link [...]

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