Miami(Ohio) to name Mike Haywood as its next football coach
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Bill Jempty | Wednesday, December 24, 2008 |
He had been the Fighting Irish’s Offensive coordinator since 2005. From AP-
Miami of Ohio named Notre Dame offensive coordinator Mike Haywood as its head coach on Tuesday.
The hiring of Haywood brings the number of black football coaches in the Bowl Championship Subdivision to six of 119 programs. He succeeds Shane Montgomery, who resigned last month.
“I knew this was the place because there were so many similarities in education [and] the type of student-athletes that are recruited there,” Haywood told The Associated Press late Tuesday.
The RedHawks were 17-31 during Montgomery’s four seasons as head coach and went 2-10 this season.
Haywood joins Turner Gill at Buffalo, Randy Shannon at Miami (Fla.), Mike Locksley at New Mexico, Kevin Sumlin at Houston, and Ron English at Eastern Michigan as the only black coaches in college football’s top tier.
Miami of Ohio has quite an illustrious football history. To name just a few of its College and Pro football Hall of Famers- Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, and Ara Parseghian. Pittsburgh Steeler QB Ben Roethlisberger played college football at Miami. The Redhawks were last to a Bowl game in 2004.
