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[OSUFALCON]

Stan Heath looks good but he seems like a job jumper. We should look closely at the growing list of former successful MAC coaches who are now availible: Ray McCallum (Ball State), Robert McCollum (Western Michigan) and now Heath.

I'm lost for words..... Lets think about the above statement concerning Heath being a job jumper. After his first head coaching job at Kent (01-02) he goes to the elite 8. He then leaves and goes to Arkansas for the past five seasons. In 1994 He spent 2 years at Bowling Green as an assistant and 5 at Michigan State after BGSU. So he has been to four D1 schools since 1994. Ray McCallum was at Ball State as a head coach, and left to go to Houston in 2000, and has since been at Oklahoma and Indiana, thats 4 schools in seven seasons. As far as Robert McCollum is concerned he also left for a bigger school in South Florida as soon as he had a chance. Why would Heath be considered the "job jumper" out of this group to be singled out? Heath would be a solid hire at BG, he has coached in the MAC and had success, knows the area for recruiting, and actually had a solid run, winning (this year) 21,22, 22, 18, and 9 games in each of his years at Arkansas.

Heath would be worse than Dakich. Mark my word. Be careful what you wish for. Look at what Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan have doen with new coaches from the assistant ranks. I don't want a re-tread at BG.

I couldn't agree more! Well said!

[Tricky_Falcon]

How about Fred Shaus?

Is he still alive? I should kind of know this because I grew up in his hometown.

[truk]

Kampe! Kampe! Kampe! He's our man! If he can't do it Stan Heath can!

Greer as assistant....

Weinert's ghost will whisper in their ears about the 1-4.

[JoeFalcon]

Stan Heath looks good but he seems like a job jumper. We should look closely at the growing list of former successful MAC coaches who are now availible: Ray McCallum (Ball State), Robert McCollum (Western Michigan) and now Heath.

I'm lost for words..... Lets think about the above statement concerning Heath being a job jumper. After his first head coaching job at Kent (01-02) he goes to the elite 8. He then leaves and goes to Arkansas for the past five seasons. In 1994 He spent 2 years at Bowling Green as an assistant and 5 at Michigan State after BGSU. So he has been to four D1 schools since 1994. Ray McCallum was at Ball State as a head coach, and left to go to Houston in 2000, and has since been at Oklahoma and Indiana, thats 4 schools in seven seasons.

Staying only one season at Kent qualifies Heath as a job jumper even though he did progress to better jobs at each stage. McCollum left once he turned around Western, but he's older now and the BCS schools might be wary of giving him another chance even if he does succeed at BG due to his age and the South Florida situation. Heath, however, is still young and loyalty might be a question.

Ray McCallum stayed at Ball State for a while and only departed when he had nothing left to accomplish. His fluid status the past few years was due to getting dismissed at UH (not his call) and joining Kevlin Sampson's staff at Oklahoma the year before he took the Indiana job.

I'd be happy with any of these coaches at BG.

[Flipper]

Leaving one job after one season does not make Heath a "job jumper". You can throw names like that around if someone has a pattern of ., it's an isolated occurence.

FWIW..I would take Heath over Orr, but would prefer an up and coming assistant with solid recrutiing ties in place in our geography to either

[BGSU Crazy Fan 58]

Larry Brown is available. He fits right in with BG's budget........right??