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12.13.2007

norm chow to interview for ucla's head coach job

Norm Chow, offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans and a former offensive coach for USC, has been contacted by the search firm working on behalf of UCLA and is expected to be interviewed for the Bruins' vacant head football coach's position by the end of the week: Norm Chow expected to interview for head coach job. Though Chow has never been a head coach, he's highly respected and lauded for his work as offensive coordinator at Brigham Young, North Carolina State and USC before joining the Titans in 2005. How awesome would it be to see Norm Chow as UCLA's head coach? Really awesome.

In other football news... Shortly after Paul Johnson announced that he was leaving the Navy to become head coach at Georgia Tech, assistant head coach Ken Niumatalolo signed a five-year contract to become head coach of the Navy Midshipmen: Navy quickly promotes Niumatalolo to coach. This makes him the first head coach of Polynesian heritage in NCAA football history. And now, between Niumatalolo and junior quarterback Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada, the Hawaiian power will be unstoppable.