San Jose State is ready to rent former Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo to switch Brent Brennan, based on 247Sports. Niumatalolo will change Brent Brennan, who accepted the Arizona job this amid a wave of job openings stemming from Nick Saban’s retirement at Alabama.
Niumatalolo just lately accepted the tight ends job at UCLA after he spent the 2023 season in a help employees position with the coach Chip Kelly and the Bruins. He’ll carry ample head-coaching expertise to SJSU after a 15-year run with Navy from 2007-22 throughout which he compiled a 109-83 document. Niumatalolo is Navy’s all-time wins chief, led this system to 6 bowl victories and posted a 10-5 document vs. Military.
What Niumatalolo is not going to be bringing with him to San Jose State, nonetheless, would be the triple-option offensive scheme that wreaked havoc on opposing defenses as he led the Midshipmen to relevance. In keeping with ESPN, Niumatalolo is at the moment concentrating on an offensive coordinator who will set up extra of a wide-open offense with emphasis on the go.
Although largely profitable throughout his tenure, Navy took a downturn below Niumatalolo amid the game’s altering panorama. The Midshipmen limped to an 11-23 document throughout his ultimate three seasons after going 11-2 in 2019. Precautions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic left Navy ill-prepared in 2020, and Niumatalolo struggled to discover a successful method for a program with stringent admissions requirements within the switch portal period.
No such challenges will await him at San Jose State, a program which has earned bowl recreation berths in three of the previous 4 seasons below Brennan.
San Jose State’s rent ends a busy late lap for school soccer’s teaching carousel, though issues may begin spinning as soon as once more if Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh leaves the Wolverines for an NFL job. After Saban retired earlier this month, Alabama employed Washington coach Kalen DeBoer as his alternative.
Washington then employed Arizona coach Jedd Fisch as DeBoer’s alternative, whereas San Jose State snatched Brennan. Moreover, DeBoer employed South Alabama coach Kane Wommack as his defensive coordinator and Buffalo coach Maurice Linguist as a defensive assistant. South Alabama has since promoted offensive coordinator Main Applewhite to go coach whereas Buffalo is continuous its seek for Linguist’s alternative.
