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Joe Moglia in as new football coach at CCU (ex Wall St. CEO buys way in?)
WMBF News ^ | 20 Dec 2011 | Rachel West

Posted on 12/20/2011 9:22:14 AM PST by PilotDave

WMBF News Sports Director Jason Belk confirmed with a source close to the university's program earlier Tuesday morning that Joe Moglia, former coach of the United Football League's Omaha Nighthawks, will take over for David Bennett. Moglia has experience with college football, working as a defensive coordinator at Dartmouth College from 1981 to 1983.

In 1983, Moglia went to work for Merrill Lynch for 17 years and then became the chief executive officers at Ameritrade Holding Corp in 2001.

He then stepped down as CEO, moving to a voluntary assistant coach position for the University of Nebraska's football program and then became the Nighthawks coach in 2011.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: football; southcarolina; wallst
This may just be the dirtiest head coaching change in history of college football... Dave Bennett led the CCU team from it's start up 9 years ago to 4 Big South championships including last year. This year his record was 7-4. Fired. the guy they hired has never had a winning record as a head football coach at any level!!! But he is a billionaire.. His record last year with Neb semi-pro team was 1-5. But the stadium did get renamed to TD Ameritrade stadium, and was "sold out" every week???? Hmm
1 posted on 12/20/2011 9:22:16 AM PST by PilotDave
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Please help me. I live in SEC Country and I am a pretty big Football Fan, but I can’t for the life of me figure out what the name of the University/College with the initials “CCU”. Are they a Divison 1 School? If not, who cares who their coach its?


2 posted on 12/20/2011 9:29:34 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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The very notion of giving scholarships for athletes is corrupt. “We’ll sacrifice our academic standards to gain prominence among would-be donors.”

If this hire were strictly about getting cash from Moglia, how is that any different than decision to compete in the NCAA in the first place? No school that offers scholarships to athletes can long remain Christian. Just ask Duke, the original Big East basketball teams, TCU, Notre Dame, SMU, Rice,...


3 posted on 12/20/2011 9:35:09 AM PST by dangus
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“I live in SEC Country and I am a pretty big Football Fan”

Hmmm... (be nice Dave, it’s almost Christmas) CCU is Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach SC. Big South Conference. Div 1 NCAA. CCU played Georgia this year in Georgia in football. Same conference as Appalachia State. They beat Michigan a couple of years ago? Remember? Google is your friend.


4 posted on 12/20/2011 9:39:53 AM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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On a related subject, I just found out why Barny Frank is retiring.

It turns out that Penn State has a couple of openings on it's football coaching staff!

5 posted on 12/20/2011 9:39:52 AM PST by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: dangus

Conceptually it was part of the whole Greek “sound mind sound body” thing. Then sports got profitable, that screwed up everytyhing.


6 posted on 12/20/2011 9:41:59 AM PST by discostu (How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today)
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You see coaches and jocks by the score giving speeches to businessmen about how to run their businesses.

So why shouldn't a businessman be able to coach??

7 posted on 12/20/2011 10:14:59 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Liberalism: Ideas so good, they have to be mandatory!!)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

It’s Coastal Carolina University out of Myrtle Beach, SC. They were a branch of the University of South Carolina but several years ago became independent of USC. They are not Div. 1, I’m not sure which division they are in. BTW, GO COCKS!!!


8 posted on 12/20/2011 10:17:23 AM PST by MissEdie (America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
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OOps, should have added NOT SURE if they are in Div 1!!


9 posted on 12/20/2011 10:19:19 AM PST by MissEdie (America went to the polls on 11-4-08 and all we got was a socialist thug and a dottering old fool.)
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Is Slippery Rock on their schedule?


10 posted on 12/20/2011 10:38:29 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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Coastal Carolina is D-1 in the Football Championship Series
(FCS) which is the old NCAA 1-AA.

I guess money talks, and CCU needs the money for its sports
programs, as insignificant as they are.


11 posted on 12/20/2011 11:38:15 AM PST by buckalfa (Confused and Bewildered With a Glass Half Empty)
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