Munchak not interested in Penn State coaching job

**buccoray61** · Dec-28-2011, 12:19 PM

Munchak not interested in Penn State coaching job
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
By Ron Musselman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
DALLAS -- Tennessee Titans coach Mike Munchak said that he is not interested in becoming the next head coach at Penn State.

"I have a great deal of respect for Penn State and I hope they find a great coach there, but I am happy where I'm at," Munchak told The Tennessean of Nashville.

"I love my alma mater, but I have no interest in being the head coach at Penn State," he said. "I never want to leave Tennessee."

Sources told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Tuesday night that Munchak, a Scranton native, was the top pick of the search committee trying to hire a replacement for Hall of Fame coach Joe Paterno.

Paterno was fired 50 days ago in wake of the child sexual abuse scandal involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

Munchak, 51, is a former Nittany Lions offensive lineman and Pro Football Hall of Famer who has spent his entire professional career, as a player and coach, with the Titans/Houston Oilers franchise since leaving Penn State after the 1981 season.

Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Tom Clements, a native of McKees Rocks, remains in the running for the Penn State job. Former NFL coach Eric Mangini, currently an NFL analyst for ESPN, also has been mentioned as a possibility

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**ranrod7** · Dec-28-2011, 12:27 PM

Well..that sucks BUT there are alot of other good coaches out there and PSU will find someone to take this enormous challange!!! Even though it is taking forever, I would rather it did take forever if we can get our man,,,,,Greg Shiano where are you???

**buccoray61** · Dec-28-2011, 12:50 PM

The name I'm hearing now is Packers QB coach Tom Clements.

**carney2** · Dec-28-2011, 02:02 PM

I understand the reasoning with cutting all ties to the past, but if he's been thoroughly vetted and played no role in the Sandusky situation, Tom Bradley is absolutely the best man for the job. At this point he understands that the next 5 years or so are going to be football h#ll and he would be more than willing/able to undertake the task. Why interview him if you had no intentions from the get-go to consider him for the job?!

**buccoray61** · Dec-28-2011, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by carney2

I understand the reasoning with cutting all ties to the past, but if he's been thoroughly vetted and played no role in the Sandusky situation, Tom Bradley is absolutely the best man for the job. At this point he understands that the next 5 years or so are going to be football h#ll and he would be more than willing/able to undertake the task. Why interview him if you had no intentions from the get-go to consider him for the job?!

I agree with you 100%. I will say that Bradley would have to make some personally tough decisions. He would have to get rid of McQueary, Jay Paterno, and probably a few others that he,I'm sure considered friends.

**vandelay industries** · Dec-28-2011, 04:19 PM

I never really understood why Munchak, a current NFL HC, would go back to be one in college and have to deal with recruiting and NCAA rules bs etc. So it never made sense. I'd like to have him at PSU, but it just didn't jive with my line of thought.

One point that I heard today though did make sense. In college, you have a lot more years of loyalty and job security to build a winner compared to the NFL. In the NFL, one or two bad years and you could be gone. Look at Spagnuolo for STL, or Morris for TB. Morris was a Coach of the Year candidate last year, now this year he may be fired. NFL coaches have horrible job security. In college, you get 5 year contracts at good money. Plus, I bet the PSU job has a little bit of a longer leash in this manner simply because of everything that went down. They're going to give the new guy a tad longer than other schools would.

Maybe based on that, it makes sense why an NFL guy would go to college.

I'll believe Munchak is truly out when PSU actually hires someone else. Often times when there's smoke, there's fire, and the memories of what Saban and Meyer said before taking their current jobs are too fresh in my memory to fully believe Munchak is for real out.

**ManO'Steel** · Dec-29-2011, 01:25 AM

I say give the program the death penalty for a year or two...

**ranrod7** · Dec-29-2011, 10:53 AM

I agree with Carney that Bradley is a GREAT CHOICE...BUT, I didn't mention him in my first post cause I figured it is a foregone conclusion that he will be swept out with the rest of the coaches.

**Jimmie** · Dec-29-2011, 12:31 PM

08:38 AM ET 12.29 | Nearly two months since the firing of Joe Paterno, Penn State is still looking for a successor. Former NFL head coach Eric Mangini is the latest name to surface in the search for a new football coach at Penn State to replace Joe Paterno. Fox 29 contributor Mike Missanelli from 97.5 The Phanatic said on Wednesday that Mangini, who coached the Jets and Browns, is the newest name to pop up in the long search for a Paterno successor. "I know they are very interested on [Mangini] the former NFL coach who has been fired twice in the NFL," says Missanelli, who has reported on Penn State for years. "He???s the latest flavor of the month. They will not be able to get a big name given to sustain what is going on."

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