Posted by MartinSpartan on 1/9/2008, 12:25 am, in reply to "Would Tomey take the Hawaii job? By Jon Wilner"
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If Tomey did leave, it would not be "the sky is falling" type of news, but certainly not welcomed. The SJSU program is in considerably better shape than when Tomey arrived and will continue to improve, no matter who is coach next season. If we are looking at a coaching change, the focus will fall on AD Tom Bowen to have a replacement as soon as possible.
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: SJSU football: Would Tomey take the Hawaii
: job?
: By Jon Wilner
: Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 at 10:20 pm in
: San Jose State, WAC. Five words of warning
: to Sparta:
:
: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
:
: Hawaii is open and I believe SJSU Coach Dick
: Tomey will give it serious consideration. I
: wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised if
: he took the job.
:
: But not that job.
:
:
: I don’t think Tomey wants to be the Hawaii
: football coach for the second time, but my
: guess is that he’s thinking long and hard
: about becoming the UH athletic director.
:
: The Warriors just canned Herman Frazier for
: failing to keep June Jones and for general
: ineptitude (Frazier is well-liked but not
: considered very sharp).
:
: I mean, what could be better for Tomey?
:
: * He’s beloved at UH and in Honolulu for
: turning around the football program in the
: 1980s.
:
: * As the AD, he wouldn’t have to deal with
: the grind of coaching/recruiting. He could
: raise money from people who adore him.
:
: * For a turning-70-year-old, being the AD
: would be the perfect coast-into-retirement
: job.
:
: * To Tomey, Hawaii is home. He has owned a
: house there for decades.
:
: A hometown retirement job for a school that
: loves him, that wants him? Sounds pretty
: good.
:
: And Hawaii wants him in a big way — not the
: school, the state.
:
: Heck, a section of Tomey’s bio in the SJSU
: media guide is titled “A Revered Figure in
: Hawaii.”
:
: Consider what longtime Honolulu Advertiser
: columnist Ferd Lewis wrote: That Tomey
: should be the AD and the football coach:
:
: “But he can provide what UH needs most in
: the short term, stability and credibility
: until a timely transition can be made and he
: rides off into a celebrated retirement.
:
: “Never mind that he is coaching at San Jose
: State and has loyalty to the Spartans, who
: gave him a late-career opportunity.
:
: “His heart is here, where he has always
: maintained a home since leaving UH in 1986.”
:
: Obviously, it would be bad news for SJSU if
: Tomey left, and athletic director Tom Bowen
: is probably compiling aa short list of
: replacements.
:
: Meanwhile, Tomey isn’t talking (at least he
: wasn’t the last time I checked, late
: afternoon). He’s at the coaches’ association
: meetings, no doubt getting bombarded about
: the UH job.
:
: If he weren’t interested — in either the
: coaching or AD jobs — he’d have said so.
:
: Silence just might be bad news for the
: Spartans.
:
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: One Response to “SJSU football: Would Tomey
: take the Hawaii job?”
: Spartan Phil Says:
: January 8th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
: I’m starting to think that DT is thinking
: about going back to Hawaii especially with
: no word from him or the athletic department
: as Jon mentioned. Coach, please stay, your
: work is not finished here yet. I think I’ll
: drop by the coaches meeting and see whats
: up.
:
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