12/19/2008 Official Coaching Search Thread

[mwitt]

How old is Murphy? I'm not one who discriminates on age, just curious. Wikipedia doesn't say, but he has a ton of head coaching experience. Begs the question of why he hasn't taken a better job before?

 

[jumbopackage]

Harvard is non-scholarship - calls into question Murphy's experience.

He's 9-1 this year, went undefeated in 04, hasn't won fewer than 7 games (they only play 10) since 2001, and hasn't had a losing season since 1998.

Harvard had gone 7 years without having more than 5 wins in a season before he showed up...

 

[mwitt]

Harvard is non-scholarship - calls into question Murphy's experience.

He coached at Cincinnati for 5 years. He won two games total in his first two years, and he went 8-3 in his last year there.

 

[atcarey]

Here is an article that indicates that Murphy was the back-up choice to Ty Willingham at Notre Dame in 2002. I think he did interview for the Indiana job that Terry Hoeppner got.

SportingNews.com - Your expert source for NCAA Football stats, scores, standings, and blogs from NCAA Football columnists

 

[CycloneErik]

How did he end up at Harvard?

Most interesting name so far. Not sure past interesting, but definitely makes a person curious.

 

[jumbopackage]

How old is Murphy? I'm not one who discriminates on age, just curious. Wikipedia doesn't say, but he has a ton of head coaching experience. Begs the question of why he hasn't taken a better job before?

Ivy League Sports

Well he graduated high school in 1974, so that would probably put him right around 52?

 

[ISUFan22]

He coached at Cincinnati for 5 years. He won two games total in his first two years, and he went 8-3 in his last year there.

So why did he leave Cinncy?

 

[acs4isu]

What is Dennis Green doing these days?

He's doing what you think he's doing.

 

[drmwevr08]

He's doing what you think he's doing.

Thats why hes not on the field.

 

[jumbopackage]

The Harvard Crimson :: Sports :: COACH OF THE YEAR: Tim Murphy, Football

This makes it sound like he turned down Indiana when they interviewed, and also talks a bit about his recruiting...

 

[scclone]

Harvard is non-scholarship - calls into question Murphy's experience.

I would somewhat agree with this. But if we're looking at candidates like this, we might as well look at Rob Ash (former Drake HC/Current Montana State).

 

[Jables22]

What is Dennis Green doing these days?

Do you want to crown his ***!?!?!?!

 

[StLouisClone]

What does this mean?

Murphy, who is the first endowed coach at Harvard, also has extensive experience as an assistant coach with stints at Maine, Boston University, Lafayette and Brown.

http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/06harvardfbc.asp

 

[weR138]

Do you want to crown his ***!?!?!?!

He IS who we THOUGHT he was!!!

 

[CycloneErik]

The Harvard Crimson :: Sports :: COACH OF THE YEAR: Tim Murphy, Football

This makes it sound like he turned down Indiana when they interviewed, and also talks a bit about his recruiting...

This has to be the first time the Harvard Crimson has ever been cited on CF.

 

[jumbopackage]

So why did he leave Cinncy?

An excerpt from Tim Murphy Bio - GoCrimson.com - Official Web Site of Harvard University Athletics

At Cincinnati, Murphy led the Bearcats to an 8-3 record in 1993, their first winning campaign since 1982 and the school’s best overall mark since 1976 (9-2). Cincinnati was the fourth-most improved team in Division I-A (an increase of five wins over 1992), and finished the regular season ranked 27th in the country in the USA Today/CNN poll and 28th in the AP poll. It was the program’s highest ranking in school history.

This success came after Murphy inherited a program that had a condemned stadium, no practice facilities, and the loss of 19 scholarships after being placed on probation for infractions incurred by the previous coaching staff. He attained all of his short-term goals, including: NCAA compliance, an improved graduation rate, reconstructing the strength and conditioning program and development of a successful major college team. When Murphy took over at Cincinnati in 1989, he was only 32 years old and was the youngest Division I head coach in the nation (along with Dave Rader at Tulsa).

While improvement was consistent throughout his tenure, it all came together in 1993. In that summer, Cincinnati was recognized by the College Football Association for being one of only 20 Division I schools to graduate a minimum of 70 percent of its most recent recruiting class. On the field, the Bearcats had their third-highest point total in school history (302), and set school marks for offensive plays, first downs and fewest turnovers. In addition, Cincinnati won that year’s Independent Football Alliance championship (which included then-independents Memphis, East Carolina, Tulsa and Southern Mississippi).

 

[CycloneErik]

An excerpt from Tim Murphy Bio - GoCrimson.com - Official Web Site of Harvard University Athletics

So that's how that bunch of schools ended up banding together as Conference-USA. I think I've learned something today.

Very interesting.

 

[BryceC]

He implied that she wasn't a good player therefore deserved to be raped.

Gigantic leap from the quote in the story. However it was terrible and I'm not about bringing him back.

 

[jumbopackage]

And apparently he was sort of in the mix for the Syracuse job:
Meet a Candidate: Tim Murphy « The Orange Report

 

[ISUFan22]

Appreciate the info jumbo. But I don't see the reason he left Cinncy. And he went from Cinncy to Harvard, right? No stops between?