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I know this is beating a dead horse to a degree, but for those blissfully holding out hope that Dungy is just waiting for the call from Maturi, I present the following:

NBC's Tony Dungy joined the show to discuss a variety of topics, including the Notre Dame head coaching spot.

Dungy reiterated he's not coming back to coach in the NFL, college football or anywhere else. He did say Notre Dame contacted him through a third party, but he wasn't interested.



Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/danpatrick/blog/89321/index.html?eref=sihp#ixzz0ZOWJK3P5
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I would hope nobody was really serious thinking Dungy was coming here.......
 

How about Dungy for AD? He said he doesn't want to coach anymore.
 

Dungy would be a disaster.
I personally think he's a disaster on NBC.
 



gold04 said:
How about Irv Cross as AD?
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HA! I heard a coworker(clueless) suggest that yesterday. I went to college with a guy who's best freind was at MAC when Irv was there, said he was a frickin terrible AD. I don't really know just sayin.

Sadly Dungy will be mentioned by the casual, fairweather fans, and chicken littles for years and years. Very sad indeed.
 





I like and respect Tony Dungy, but I can't understand the deification of the guy. He's a solid football coach, but he never got Tampa Bay to the promised land when they had the best defense in football and a year after he's fired, Jon Gruden wins it all. I always thought that Dungy's stubborness and his continued reliance on Shaun King were the two primary reasons he never got it done down there.

That said, he'd likely be the best coach we've had since Lou Holtz and would certainly shine a national spotlight on the program.
 


50PoundHead said:
I like and respect Tony Dungy, but I can't understand the deification of the guy. He's a solid football coach, but he never got Tampa Bay to the promised land when they had the best defense in football and a year after he's fired, Jon Gruden wins it all. I always thought that Dungy's stubborness and his continued reliance on Shaun King were the two primary reasons he never got it done down there.

That said, he'd likely be the best coach we've had since Lou Holtz and would certainly shine a national spotlight on the program.
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We like Tony because he is a Gopher. And we also like Kevin McHale because he was a Gopher. There is no big mystery to that in GopherHole.

John Gruden won the Super Bowl with the team that Tony Dungy put together. If you don't think that Dungy wouldn't have eventually won with Tampa Bay if he hadn't been fired, you don't know beans. Dungy went on to put together another Super Bowl contending team with the Colts, and he finally closed the deal. What has John Gruden done since then?

Bud Grant has been deified like few other coaches - and he is in the NFL Hall of Fame even though he NEVER won the big one. Tony Dungy is also going to be in the Hall of Fame - and he DID win the big one. The hallmark of a great coach is excellence year in and year out over a period of years despite a larger turnover of players, or coaching for a different team. Tony Dungy is a great coach.
 

Oh, I think I know beans. I never said I didn't think Dungy was a bad coach or wasn't a good coach. He's just treated like the second coming of Vince Lombardi or Bill Walsh in here and I guess I don't see it. He's a solid football guy who did take a Colts team that was having trouble getting over the hump and, much like Gruden did in Tampa Bay, got them to the top of the sport. And what impressed me about Dungy in that situation is that he changed his approach to the task at hand as opposed to being way too stubborn when he was in Tampa Bay.

Great guy, good coach, gentleman well met. Ideal coach for us? Probably.
 




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