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per Joe:
The football coaching tree that produced the Gophers’ Jerry Kill and TCU’s Gary Patterson is rooted in small-town Kansas, and the trunk is legendary coach Dennis Franchione.
Franchione, 64, turned around programs at New Mexico, TCU and Alabama before a five-year tenure at Texas A&M ended with his 2007 resignation.
Now, 30 years into head coaching, he’s entering his fourth season at Texas State, starting with an enormous test Saturday against No. 10 Florida State. But Franchione hopes to carve out time Thursday night to watch on television when TCU visits Minnesota.
Kill and Patterson were college players under Franchione who eventually went to work for the man they call “Coach Fran,” helping launch their own coaching careers.
Kill, 54, was an undersized linebacker for Franchione at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan. Franchione hired Kill as a defensive coordinator at Division II Pittsburg State in Kansas.
“I knew from what he was like as a player that he would be thorough, articulate, committed, hardworking and a good recruiter,” Franchione said. “He’s won everywhere he’s been. If you don’t love Jerry Kill as a person and as a coach, you don’t like people because there’s none finer.”
http://www.startribune.com/coach-fran-knows-kill-patterson-friendship/323805321/
Go Gophers!!
The football coaching tree that produced the Gophers’ Jerry Kill and TCU’s Gary Patterson is rooted in small-town Kansas, and the trunk is legendary coach Dennis Franchione.
Franchione, 64, turned around programs at New Mexico, TCU and Alabama before a five-year tenure at Texas A&M ended with his 2007 resignation.
Now, 30 years into head coaching, he’s entering his fourth season at Texas State, starting with an enormous test Saturday against No. 10 Florida State. But Franchione hopes to carve out time Thursday night to watch on television when TCU visits Minnesota.
Kill and Patterson were college players under Franchione who eventually went to work for the man they call “Coach Fran,” helping launch their own coaching careers.
Kill, 54, was an undersized linebacker for Franchione at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan. Franchione hired Kill as a defensive coordinator at Division II Pittsburg State in Kansas.
“I knew from what he was like as a player that he would be thorough, articulate, committed, hardworking and a good recruiter,” Franchione said. “He’s won everywhere he’s been. If you don’t love Jerry Kill as a person and as a coach, you don’t like people because there’s none finer.”
http://www.startribune.com/coach-fran-knows-kill-patterson-friendship/323805321/
Go Gophers!!