Tuesday, January 3, 2012

College football: Washington purges defensive coaches

Washington defensive coordinator Nick Holt and two other defensive assistants have been fired two days after the worst defensive performance in Washington history against Baylor in the Alamo Bowl.

The school announced the firing of Holt, linebackers coach Mike Cox and safeties coach Jeff Mills on Saturday. The university says all three had contracts for the 2012 season that will be honored. Holt is to make $650,000.

Washington?s 2011 defense was the worst in school history statistically, capped by giving up 67 points and 777 yards to Baylor in a 67-56 loss in the Alamo Bowl.

Holt has been criticized because of Washington?s defensive decline and the large salary that accompanied his arrival from Southern California before the 2009 season.

Spurrier near record

Steve Spurrier is one of two football coaches to win 10 games in a season at South Carolina. With a victory against Nebraska on Monday in the Capital One Bowl, he would become the first to win 11 games at a school that has been playing football for 118 seasons.

?We probably mention it every other word, ?Get the 11th win, get the 11th win,?? spur Damario Jeffery said. ?That?s all we talk about right now. We really want it real bad. [Spurrier] probably wants it more than anybody else. That?ll be a great thing for his legacy to say he turned the program around.?

Joe Morrison coached the Gamecocks to a 10-2 record in 1984.

Source: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sports/53211787-77/defensive-washington-bowl-football.html.csp

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