🏈 LSU will reportedly interview Terps WRs coach Keenan McCardell

[Bamabww]

Posted by John Taylor on February 12, 2015, 12:52 PM EST

It appears as if LSU is casting a rather expansive net in Les Miles‘ search to fill a hole in his coaching staff.

Wednesday it was reported that Miles interviewed Georgia wide receivers coach Tony Ball for the same position with the Tigers. A day later, the New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting that Miles will interview Maryland’s Keenan McCardell for that same opening.

According to the Times-Picayune, McCardell is in Baton Rouge today for the interview.

The 45-year-old McCardell has been an assistant coach for just four years, the first three of which came at the NFL level (Washington Redskins). His first college job was as the receivers coach at Maryland, for which he was hired in January of last year. On his Maryland profile page, his primary recruiting areas are listed as Delaware, Northern Florida and Texas (Houston).

McCardell, who played his college football at UNLV, got off to a late start to his coaching career because of a 17-year playing career as an NFL receiver.

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...y-interview-terps-wrs-coach-keenan-mccardell/

 

[planomateo]

McCardell, should be interesting to see what he can do. He was a pretty good WR.

Not related to the WR coach...but losing 300 staff is fairly significant.

 

[TerryP]

Since @planomateo has semi-hijacked this thread...

One story I've found of interest lately has to do with the media reaction to UAB's football program being discontinued. If you recall, there were national pundits writing about this for a few weeks—Schlabach, Katz, Bilas, etc.

Right now, there's a bill in South Carolina congress about shutting down South Carolina State University for a year. The school, as well as the sports programs, etc. Yet, on the national front, I've yet to see someone mention this story, the athletes, etc. OR, the fans for that matter...considering SCSU likely triples the numbers UAB sees each season.

Is the attention to UAB due to it being in the state of Alabama? Is it due to PB, Jr. being a part of the BOT?

One story, with SC State, is dealing with around 3000 students plus faculty and staff. The other...100, or so.

 

[planomateo]

To your point, I hadn't heard about SCSU's troubles. Shutting down the school completely (~3000 students), that's huge.

[ Could you imagine shutting down the government because of the deficit .... ]

Interesting read, http://www.thestate.com/2015/02/10/3980563_house-panel-votes-to-close-sc.html?rh=1

 

[planomateo]

Sounds as if LSU just hired away UGA's WR Coach Tony Ball (lateral move).