Football: More Coaching Tidbits

LONG INTERVIEW WITH MIKE SEWAK
Check out this great interview with our new co O-Line coach Mike Sewak.

DUKE HIRES GT GRAD AS DC
David Cutcliffe just hired former GT player and grad Mike MacIntyre as their new Defensive Coordinator. I guess if one GT grad didn't work as a head coach, maybe one as DC will work..... Speaking for former GT coaches at Duke

TED ROOF SIGNS ON WITH LOUISVILLE
Ted Roof will coach the Linebackers at Louisville. Frankly, that's a great pick-up for the Cards.

PATRICK NIX vs JOHN BOND?
In looking back at guys who make decisions with their careers, sometimes it pays to be lucky, and sometimes timing is everything. Patrick Nix decides he needs to get out of Chan Gailey's shadow, sees his boss unsuccessfully interview for some NFL jobs, and parlays a fresh OC job with Miami. In other words, he bought himself a few years of stability at a major BCS school, while his former boss is shown the door and he would have left under very different circumstances had he stayed.

John Bond, the OC at N.Illinois, comes to GT for a "better" BCS job, and gets caught up in the wash after one season - poof - gone.

They all know the risks. Maybe Nix saw the writing on the wall with Dan Radakovich coming in and knew his best bet was to leave. Bond certainly didn't have the benefit of seeing things from the inside. From his vantage point, he saw a program excited about their offensive performance in the Gator Bowl, having tons of returning seniors, having just played for the ACC championship and with a head coach that everyone seemed to feel pretty decent about. How possible would it be that a guy who's never had a losing season and just played for a conference title would get the ax?.............. Well, what do you know.

On a side note, guess what - had John Bond stayed at N.Illinios he would probably have been out of job anyway - their longtime head coach decided to retire and they're cleaning house.

Timing is everything.