![]() ![]() The Bulldogs went 4-7 in Pat Sullivan's first season at Samford. After graduation, Pete spent a year working in the football office at Stanford and then another season at Memphis as a graduate assistant before he was hired to be the special teams coordinator at FCS Samford in 2007. The younger Roussel got a job working in the Rebels' football office after, he says, Archie Manning called then-Rebels head coach David Cutcliffe. Just like his older brother, Pete Roussel attended Ole Miss. "When I was a 5-year-old, I didn't say, 'I wanna run a website.' I said, 'I wanna be a football coach.'" That also happened to be the same year when Pete Roussel's own fledgling coaching career took a left turn. In 2007, Allen landed the head coaching job at Division II Southwest Baptist in Missouri around the same time he'd become a father and he knew he needed to make a choice. His bosses knew that he was running Football Scoop, he says, even if no one else in the coaching world did. In the midst of recruiting season, Allen would make his calls to high school coaches, to recruits, do his home visits and then - before he went to sleep at night - he'd update the site after perusing his email. Maintaining the site and managing the demands of being a college coach was tricky. "We'd do a quick retraction and apologize for it." "Sometimes we'd post something that had no legs," he says. But Allen admits he didn't have the time to vet much of what was going up on the Scoop. The site was a must-see among football coaches by 2000, and Allen was back on the field running the defense at Quincy University in Illinois.Īllen's first rule for posting anything was that the source had to come from the particular school where the information was about. "The neat thing about the Internet is once two or three people see something, it can really take off," Allen says, adding that it took about 18 months before Football Scoop became viable. So with the help of one of those How-To for dummy books - how to build a website - Allen skipped a trip to Vegas with his buddies for spring break to create a website, Football Scoop. The unwritten rule: no one left the football building till Coach Fran left. Dennis Franchione was the Horned Frogs' head coach. Allen had gone from being an on-the-field coach at what is now Louisiana-Monroe to be an administrator in the football program at TCU. Keith Allen created Football Scoop in 1998 because, as he puts it, he had some free time. ![]() Most of the media, though, didn't know Football Scoop existed for years. Coaches often made the site the first thing they moused over to when they logged onto their PCs in the morning. ![]() True or even partially true, the speculation was part of the fun. A special teams coordinator at a mid-major interviewing with some Big East program. a strength coach at a 1-AA tired of the business. The site was low on flash and long on industry gossip: A linebacker coach at a D3 school feuding with his head coach meaning a job in Pennsylvania might pop. ![]() Fueled by rumors and reports filed by football staffers from programs all over the country, Football Scoop had been around for a decade. Together, the Roussel brothers bought Football Scoop in 2008. Coaching Carousel: Who's in and who's out?.Agents: 'Double Standard' coaches face is unfair.We have confirmed with the people involved.Ĭontract extensions for coaches can be expensive error Little brother should get better sources. I've confirmed the report about NC State reaching out to Mike Leach is 100% inaccurate. However, just nine minutes after the Football Scoop report came a bizarre twist even at a time when the bizarre seems SOP.Ĭ, a similarly framed site to Football Scoop that has 18,000 followers and bills itself as "the most trusted expert on coaching transactions," then tweeted: All of this only adds to the feeding frenzy of what some around the sport call The Silly Season. , as well as other major media outlets, engage in these reports, too. Speculation of coaches being linked to other jobs or attribution by anonymous sources are commonplace these days, especially at this time of year. The bio on the site's feed: "Since 1999, the premier source for coaching job information." The site that tweeted out the information, Football Scoop, has more than 22,000 followers. The report was re-tweeted over 200 times. Have confirmed that representatives from NC State have spoken with Mike Leach about their opening /the-scoop Less than three hours after the school announced O'Brien's firing via its twitter feed, the site tweeted: State head coach who had won 24 games the past three seasons, was one of the men at the major college level to lose his job. 25 - The day known around the college football world as Black Sunday - five coaches were fired. ![]()
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