Dennis Franchione
Dennis Franchione
Dennis Wayne Franchione, also known as Coach Fran, is an American football coach. He is the former head football coach at Texas State University, a position he held from 1990 to 1991, when the school was known as Southwest Texas State University, and resumed from 2011 to 2015. Franchione has also served as the head football coach at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, Pittsburg State University, the University of New Mexico, Texas Christian University, the University of Alabama, and Texas...
class good job meeting reflects
I think this class reflects we did a very good job of meeting our needs.
certainly exciting position prospect
Jerrod is certainly an exciting prospect at quarterback, and that is the only position we have really thought about Jerrod at.
accomplish certainly fantastic football game played quarters running throwing
Reggie certainly had a fantastic game throwing and running the football and really only played 2 1/2 quarters to accomplish all of that.
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I think guys are still confident they can make plays. They know they need to make them. They get frustrated when they don't and that's true of every football team that goes through any of the things we're going through.
good schedule week
We need to play. We don't need to play a game, take a week off, play a game, take another week off. That's not a very good schedule for us.
create game half season took
Stephen has had an outstanding spring. He took that game and a half at the end of the season and used it to create a springboard into this year.
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With eight returning starters on both sides, we have a little more experience to take in a setting like that. Probably very few people realized Utah was a BCS-caliber team at that time, and that wasn't much fun. ... The biggest plus is maturity and experience, which we couldn't claim at a lot of positions last season.
speed
This will put more speed on the field.
across strong
There are no weaknesses. You go position-by-position with them, and they are strong across the board.
college direction far football nickel seeing sets situations
We are seeing far more one-back sets and far more need to be in nickel situations in today's college football than we are seeing two-back sets. We're just kind of basing it on what we are seeing the most and working the other direction basing with the 4-3 and working out to the nickel.
past power quite
We didn't have a power back in the past quite like him.
tight
We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.
bad balls decision forced
I don't think Reggie has made a bad decision yet. He hasn't forced any balls. He is really comfortable here. He's doing his thing and is really sharp.
bean signed win
He was signed to come in and win that job. But Richie Bean is going to have some say about that.