Niumatalolo out at Navy

[PlainsUte]

Navy lost to Army in overtime on Saturday.  It will be Coach Niumatalolo’s last game for the Midshipmen.  Winningest coach at Navy but 11-23 over the past three seasons.  TSPP can now pick him up, I guess.

https://247sports.com/Article/Navy-football-coach-Ken-Niumatalolo-will-not-return-for-2023-season-200184987

[EMUte#2]

A position coach at Tds would be a big step down. The pay is not good trust me. They don’t make much.

[PlainsUte]

Sort of kidding, based on when their fans said he really wanted to coach at TSPP but didn’t when Bronco left.

[fosternano]

They offered him first and he declined, opting to sign an extension with navy at the time if I recall correctly.

[GameForAnyFuss]

Kind of. Actually he was in line to be the coach at BYU-Provo Campus but Holmoe got cold feet. Holmoe was afraid that Ken’s offense was too vanilla to keep the fanbase happy – they insist on a pass-heavy offense and Ken has a run-first, triple option offense at Navy. Holmoe buckled under the pressure and hired Sitake instead.

That fanbase is something else, man. They ran their 2nd-best coach of all time out of town (Mendenhall) and they ran off Ken before he even got the job. And there’s no doubt in my mind that Ken is a great football coach and is certainly a better head coach than Sitake is.

[PlainsUte]

Was that his offense or just what he had to run at Navy (as do the other Academies) due to personnel restrictions?

[GameForAnyFuss]

To that fanbase it didn’t matter. They were so scared that Ken would bring the triple option to Provo that they heaped pressure on Holmoe to not hire him.

There’s a lesson to be learned here for all of us: Stakeholder input is good, but you can’t hire by committee.