[NU Sports] Coach Dunbar leaving?

[Jeff Beamsley]

This is an example of where NU "IS" at a disadvantage compared to OSU and
UoM.  Our program doesn't generate the sort of dollars that allow head
coaches to pay assistant coaches at least as well as they would get paid to
be head coaches somewhere else.  Carr was an assistant coach at UoM for
fifteen years before succeeding Moeller.  Moeller spent about the same
amount of time as an assistant coach before succeeding Bo.

Pay is only part of the issue, however.  Those coaches who have aspirations
to become head coach some day have two choices.  They succeed the coach they
are working for, or they take a head coaching job somewhere else.

Barring some repercussions from the Wheeler settlement, Walker has certainly
delivered the sort of results this year that should earn him a contract
extension.  So Dunbar's opportunities to be a head coach here have
diminished.  If he really wants to be a head coach, I'm not surprised his
name is coming up in discussions.  

Jeff 

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Hakirsch at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:17 AM
To: jonathanwhodges at gmail.com; nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Coach Dunbar leaving?

In a message dated 11/16/2005 7:09:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,
jonathanwhodges at gmail.com writes:

> The Daily Northwestern said the following today:
> 
> Offensive coordinator Mike Dunbar, reportedly a candidate for the 
> Buffalo head coaching job and the North Carolina offensive coordinator 
> job, on whether he's been contacted: "I'm not going there. Let's beat 
> Illinois. We'll take care of one step at a time."
> 
> This is the first I have really heard of this, and with him avoiding 
> the question like that maybe there is truth to that?  This would be 
> the second time the OC has been picked off under Walker.
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Could be truthful or an intentional avoidance of the question to help jack
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