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...
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We're going to make a tight end out of you, yet.
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These 14 players were selected by their teammates and they are a very important part of this team. They provide needed input and assistance in the way we operate as a team.
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He's got quite an interesting story and our military background was an allure.
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It is monitored and audited to the dime. There are all kinds of checks and balances and procedures to make sure there is no abuse of the system.
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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 this class reflects we did a very good job of meeting our needs.
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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.
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I think they have a lot of confidence in the history of this program.
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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.
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It's the reality of our business.
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They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.
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...With 9:36 left in the game, in retrospect we might have gone for two because we ended up with three more plays on offense the rest of the game. It's a lot easier looking back and analyzing going for two.