News for the 8/3/08

NFL to reinstate quarterback Favre AFP - NEW YORK (AFP) — Disgruntled quarterback Brett Favre will be reinstated by the National Football League on Monday, the league announced. ...

Green, Monk Among Six Inducted Into Pro Football Hall of Fame Bloomberg - (Bloomberg) -- Former Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green and wide receiver Art Monk were among six players inducted into the Pro Football Hall ...

BYU football: Camp opens with Collie out Salt Lake Tribune, United States - PROVO - Rain clouds hung over the opening practice of BYU's fall football camp Saturday afternoon, making the day more pleasant than usual for coaches and ...

Wake Forest hopes football program built to last International Herald Tribune, France - AP WINSTON-SALEM, NC: Aaron Curry stood near midfield at Wake Forest's football stadium while he contemplated the question, looking for a way to explain how ...

Transcript Emmitt Thomas Hall of Fame enshrinement speech Kansas City Star, MO - The moment when I knew my father was a special football player, partly had to do with the fact when people come up and tell you how special he is. ...

Fans floating on football, civic pride Akron Beacon Journal, OH - ''Now, I'm an ultimate Redskins fan and an official part of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.'' Gardner, known as Hollywood HillBilly Hogette, was among the ...

Utah State football: Quarterback McCormick may leave Aggies Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Instead, McCormick didn't show for practice, and it has been confirmed by The Tribune that he's contemplating giving up football altogether. ...

Red hair, played for the fish, snaps a football: nickname? Seattle Times, United States - Josh Jarboe got kicked out of high school for bringing a handgun, and now the prize recruit has been kicked off the Oklahoma football team for recording a ...

UConn Football Tough To Gauge Hartford Courant, United States - So, sixth place is where the media covering the Big East predicted the defending conference co-champs — your UConn Huskies football team — will finish this ...

College football primer Indianapolis Star, United States - College football practice begins this week with intriguing story lines from Bloomington to South Bend. How interesting could this season be in Indiana? ...

Virtual Gridiron Arrives Early with Maden Update Washington Post, United States -Football fans can put him on any team without having to wait for the official season kickoff on September 4. EA Sports is celebrating two decades of video ...

Big 12 quarterbacks rule college football Kansas City Star, MO - Fast-break football made the Big 12 the nation’s highest-scoring conference last season and accounted for some freakish stats. But it wasn’t as if the Big ...

John Mark Stallings, the son of former Alabama football coach Gene ... The Birmingham News - al.com, AL - John Mark Stallings, 46, the son of former Alabama head football coach Gene Stallings and among the most beloved members of the Crimson Tide family, ...

Pledged football players wait it out Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - LaRod King has known since March where he plans to play his college football. He'd put it in writing, if anyone would let him. Instead, the North Hardin ...

College Football Predictions and Ratings are Not One and the Same Offshore Insiders, GA - Their preseason publication is part of our research and a major reason why GodsTips enters the football season as the most prepared sports service in the ...

Bus Cook: Favre just wants to play football Hattiesburg American, MS - "The whole reason Brett applied for reinstatement was because he wants to play football. And the Packers have taken the position that he's not playing again ...

Eternal question just gets on Lions coach's nerves Chicago Tribune, United States - Paterno doesn't want anyone to tell him the time has come for him to retire as Penn State's football coach. He resents being asked. ...

Boy Dies At Pee-Wee League Football Practice News4Jax.com, FL - The second practice of a Westside Pop Warner football team ended in tragedy on Saturday. Officials told Channel 4 an 11- or 12-year-old boy died after

Analysis: Critical time for PSU football York Daily Record, PA - By FRANK BODANI Football practice has just begun -- and so has the most critical behind-the-scenes month in recent Penn State history. ...

Difficulties behind starting a football program Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - BY TROY JOHNSON - johnsont@ledger-enquirer.com -- Bill Curry has a vision of what Georgia State's football program could become, but first things first. ...

CSU football undergoes a remodel ReporterHerald.com, CO - By Mike Brohard It took until July for Colorado State’s new football coach to get his family moved from New York to Colorado, but it’s done. ...

OSU football schedule: Pivotal games NewsOK.com (subscription), OK - Wide receiver Todd Nelson signs a football during Oklahoma State fan appreciation day in Stillwater on Saturday. by MATT STRASEN, THE OKLAHOMAN •Aug. 30 vs. ...

Phillips to be UK's 1st black head football coach Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - When Mississippi State hired Sylvester Croom in December of 2003, making him the first black head football coach in Southeastern Conference history, ...

U-Fantasy.com Launches Free Fantasy College Football Website PR Web (press release), WA - U-Fantasy.com has brought fantasy college football to the millions of NFL fantasy football fans who are searching for somewhere to play the college version ...

Beavers name football captains for 2008 season NRToday.com, OR - CORVALLIS — Oregon State seniors Victor Butler, Brandon Hughes, Andy Levitre and Sammie Stroughter have been named football team captains for the 2008 ...

Fassel: 'This is what football is all about' Canton Repository (subscription), OH - "This is what football is all about — the Hall of Fame," Fassel said Saturday during pre-HOF induction ceremony celebrations. "This is awesome. ...

Lufkin hosting football camp Lufkin Daily News, TX - The free football camp is a chance for players to learn from the Lufkin coaching staff, which has helped turn Lufkin into one of the state's premier ...

College to teach women finer points of football Clovis News Journal, NM - Greyhound football coach Mark Ribaudo, along with several assistant coaches and players, are taking on the job of teaching area women the game of football. ...

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Tide fans get sneak peek today Montgomery Advertiser, AL -Following practice, the Crimson Tide football team, along with Saban and the coaching staff, will be available for autographs on the field. ...

Ohio State football Columbus Dispatch, OH - By Tim May In the past six years, Jim Tressel coached one Ohio State team to a national championship, took two more to the national title game and has won ...

LSU football starts anew Shreveport Times, LA - By Glenn Guilbeau • gguilbeau@gannett.com • August 3, 2008 BATON ROUGE — For LSU football fans, the two words carry the same significance as those four ...

KU football preview to air on FSN KUsports, KS - The Fox Sports Network will be broadcasting a 30-minute preview segment on the Kansas University football team airing throughout August on FSN Kansas City ...

NSU football players report today Alexandria Town Talk, LA - NATCHITOCHES -- The maximum load of 90 players will report to camp today when the 2008 Northwestern State football season officially begins for the players. ...

Football: Crenshaw holds its own against the nation's best Los Angeles Times, CA - Figured I'd give Crenshaw Coach Robert Garrett some time to rest before bombarding him with questions about how he thought the Cougars played during the ...

Storm win National Indoor Bowl Sioux Falls Argus Leader, SD - As for the idea that coming out on top will benefit the Storm next season, Riggs preferred to focus on the fact that the new Indoor Football League will ...

Jeff Jagodzinski, Head Coach, Boston College

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Coaching Experience

To call Jeff Jagodzinski's first season as the head football coach at Boston College a success would be an understatement.

After all, the 2007 Eagles finished 11-3, becoming the first BC team to win 11 games since 1940. With a win over Michigan State in the Champs Sports Bowl (BC's eighth consecutive bowl game win, the longest active streak in college football), Jagodzinski surpassed Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen and former Clemson head coach Ken Hatfield for the most wins by a first-year head coach in Atlantic Coast Conference history. Jagodzinski and West Virginia's Rich Rodriguez were named by the American Football Coaches Association as the Region 1 Coaches of the Year.

Jagodzinski's debut was a season to remember for BC fans, as the Eagles began the year 8-0, the third-best start in school history. After their come-from-behind 14-10 win over No. 8 Virginia Tech that will go down as one of the most memorable games in BC football history, the Eagles climbed to No. 2 in both major polls, their highest ranking since being ranked No. 1 in 1942. The squad became the first BC football team to win 10 or more games in consecutive seasons, and the senior class became the most successful in school history. The team won the ACC Atlantic Division and advanced to the ACC Championship Game for the first time when they pulled off a stunning come-from-behind win at Clemson. They defeated Miami for the first time since the famous "miracle in Miami" game in 1984 and finished 10th in the final AP college football poll and 11th in the USA Today poll, their highest final ranking since the 1984 season.

After he was named BC's 33rd head football coach early in 2007, Jagodzinski hit the ground running. He retained the services of key assistants Frank Spaziani (defensive coordinator) and Bill McGovern (linebackers coach) and then assembled an impressive staff that includes former head coaches Jack Bicknell Jr. (assistant head coach/offensive line coach) and Steve Logan (offensive coordinator). Jagodzinski and his staff then went to work to teach and install an entirely new system to his team in time to face a tough schedule that included three consecutive league games to start the year.

Quarterback Matt Ryan flourished in the new system installed by Jagodzinski and Logan, becoming a Heisman Trophy candidate and eventually winning the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award and the Manning Award after being named ACC Player of the Year. Safety Jamie Silva became a consensus All-America first-team selection, and the Eagles finished second in the country in rushing defense.

Jagodzinski continued to make academics a priority for the program, and the Eagles achieved the highest graduation rate (93%) of any team in the top 25. The team won the ACC Sportsmanship Award for football and continued its leadership role in campus and community service functions.

Named to his position Dec. 19, 2006, the 44-year-old Jagodzinski spent the previous season as the offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. Before Green Bay, he spent three seasons with the Atlanta Falcons after five years with the Packers (1999-2003) as tight ends coach.
Although Jagodzinski came to BC from the professional ranks, he spent 14 years as a college coach, including two successful seasons (1997-98) as offensive coordinator at Boston College. At BC, his offenses averaged more than 400 yards per game in each of his two seasons. In addition, during both years the Eagles allowed the fewest sacks in the Big East, going from last to first in 1997.

In 1998, Jagodzinski saw one of his pupils gain All-America honors as running back Mike Cloud earned first-team honors and ranked third in the country in rushing; Cloud subsequently was drafted in the second round by Kansas City in 1999. One of his linemen, All-Big East center Damien Woody, was a 1999 first-round draft pick of the New England Patriots, the 17th selection overall. Jagodzinski also coached Seahawks All-Pro quarterback (and former Green Bay backup) Matt Hasselbeck during his 1997 senior season at BC.

Jagodzinski served as Atlanta's offensive line coach in 2005, a promotion he earned after his first year in Atlanta, 2004, as tight ends coach. While in Atlanta, he worked with offensive line consultant Alex Gibbs, the architect of some of the best offensive lines in NFL history, including that of the 1997-98 Super Bowl champion Broncos.

Known as one of the NFL's most successful rushing offenses, the Falcons led the NFL in both rushing yards per game and rushing yards per carry during Jagodzinski's two years in Atlanta. As line coach in 2005, the Falcons' zone-blocking schemes led the way for RB Warrick Dunn's career-high 1,416 rushing yards, a Pro Bowl effort. In part behind timely blocks from the offensive line, Atlanta in 2004 set a franchise record with 2,672 rushing yards, a springboard to the team's berth in the NFC Championship game.

Alge Crumpler, Jagodzinski's primary pupil as tight ends coach in 2004, went to the Pro Bowl that season after catching 48 passes for 774 yards and a career-high six TDs. Crumpler's 16.1-yard per-catch average led all NFL tight ends in `04.

Prior to joining the Falcons, Jagodzinski spent five years (1999-2003) as the Packers' tight ends coach and was instrumental in launching the career of three-time Pro Bowl tight end Bubba Franks. In 2002, Franks recorded 54 receptions, the first 50-plus catch season by a Packers tight end since Boston College graduate Mark Chmura tallied 54 in 1995. Franks' mark fell just two shy of Paul Coffman's club-record 56 (1979).

Prior to his coaching stint at Boston College, Jagodzinski served on coaching staffs at East Carolina (1989-96), Louisiana State (1987-88), Northern Illinois (1986), and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (1985), his alma mater.

Before becoming part of the UW-Whitewater coaching staff, Jagodzinski was a three-year starter and four-year player (1981-84) at fullback for the Warhawks. He earned a B.S. degree in education at Whitewater in 1985.

Jagodzinski attended West Allis (Wis.) Central High School, where he played football and baseball, earning all-conference honors in football and participating in the Shrine game, the state's all-star contest, following his senior season.