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Jonathan Smith (American Football Coach)
Jonathan Charles Smith (born January 18, 1979) is an American college football coach who is currently the head coach at Michigan State University. He was previously the head coach for six seasons at his alma mater, Oregon State University. As a player, he was a four-year starter at quarterback for the Beavers under head coaches Mike Riley and Dennis Erickson. Early years Born in Pasadena, California, Smith graduated from Glendora High School in east Los Angeles County in 1997. He went north to play college football at Oregon State, and was originally a walk-on under head coach Mike Riley. Smith was a four-year starter for the Beavers at quarterback, taking over midway through his redshirt freshman season in 1998 and maintaining the job through his senior season in 2001. As a junior in 2000 under Dennis Erickson, he led the Beavers to their greatest season in school history. The Beavers finished , a school record for wins, and won a share of their first conference title in 36 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Head Coach
A head coach, senior coach, or manager is a professional responsible for training and developing athletes within a sports team. This role often has a higher public profile and salary than other coaching positions. In some sports, such as association football and professional baseball, this role is referred to as the "manager," while in others, like Australian rules football, it is called "senior coach." The head coach typically reports to a sporting director or general manager. In professional sports, where senior players are full-time employees under contract, the head coach often functions similarly to a general manager. Other coaches within the organization usually report to the head coach and specialize in areas such as offense or defense, with further subdivisions into specific roles like position coaches. In youth sports, the head coach often serves as the primary representative of the coaching staff, managing communication with parents and overseeing the overall developmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redshirt (college Sports)
Redshirt, in United States college athletics, is a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen their period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, aligning with the four years of academic classes typically required to earn a bachelor's degree at an American college or university. However, in a redshirt year, student athletes may attend classes at the college or university, practice with an athletic team, and "suit up" (wear a team uniform) for play – but they may compete in only a limited number of games (see " Use of status" section). Using this mechanism, a student athlete (traditionally) has at most five academic years to use the four years of eligibility, thus becoming what is termed a fifth-year senior. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, an additional year of eligibility was granted by the NCAA to student athletes who met certain criteria. Student athletes who qualified had up to six academic yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Idaho Vandals Football Team
The 2004 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. Idaho competed as a member of the Sun Belt Conference, and played their home games in the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho. Led by first-year head coach Nick Holt, the Vandals finished at 3–9 (2–5 in Sun Belt, last). Holt was previously the linebackers coach at USC and an Idaho assistant coach for eight seasons in the 1990s. Schedule Fallen teammate The season was marred by the September death of starting cornerback Eric McMillan, a redshirt freshman from Murrieta, California, and originally from Tuskegee, Alabama. In a case of mistaken identity, he was shot in his apartment in south Moscow on Sunday afternoon, a day after the third game of season, and died at Gritman Medical Center. References External links''Idaho Argonaut''– student newspaper – 2004 editions {{Idaho Vandals football navbox Idaho Idaho Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Oregon State Beavers Football Team
The 2003 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by third-year head coach Mike Riley, who returned Oregon State after helming the team in 1997 and 1998, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 8–5 with a mark of 4–4 in conference play, placing in a three-way tie for fifth in the Pac-10. Oregon State was invited to the Las Vegas Bowl, where the Beavers defeated New Mexico. The team played home games at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon. Schedule Game summaries Boise State *Source:''ESPN Arizona State *Steven Jackson 26 Rush, 105 Yds R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Oregon State Beavers Football Team
The 2002 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by Dennis Erickson in his fourth and final season as head coach, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 8–5 with a mark of 4–4 in conference play, placing in a four-way tie for fourth in the Pac-10. Oregon State was invited to the Insight Bowl, where the Beavers lost to Pittsburgh. The team played home games at Reser Stadium in Corvallis, Oregon. After the season, in February 20023, Erickson left for Oregon State to become head coach for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Previous head coach Mike Riley was rehired to replace him. Schedule Game summaries Oregon Roster References Oregon State Oregon State Beavers football seasons Oregon State Beavers football The Oregon State Beavers footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
The 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season was the first college football season of the 21st century. It ended with the University of Miami winning the national title for the fifth time. The Hurricanes were led by Larry Coker, who was in his first year as head coach after five years as Miami's offensive coordinator under Butch Davis and became the first head coach since 1989's Dennis Erickson from the University of Miami to win a national title in his first season. Coker had the benefit of inheriting a star-studded program that Davis had rebuilt in the aftermath of NCAA sanctions in the mid-to-late '90s. Miami completed a perfect 12–0 season, which culminated in a 37–14 win over Nebraska in the Rose Bowl BCS National Championship Game. In yet another controversial season for the BCS, (AP) No. 4 Nebraska was chosen as the national title opponent despite not having even played in the Big 12 championship game. The Huskers went into their last regularly scheduled game at Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
The 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with the Oklahoma Sooners beating the defending national champion Florida State Seminoles to claim the Sooners' seventh national championship and their thirty-seventh conference championship, the first of each since the 1988 departure of head coach Barry Switzer. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops was in his second season as head coach, having been the defensive coordinator of Steve Spurrier's 1996 National Champion Florida Gators, and also having helped Bill Snyder turn the Kansas State Wildcats around in the early 1990s. Stoops erased a three-game losing streak against rival Texas by a score of 63–14, one of the worst defeats in Texas' football history. Despite the lopsided victory, this game marked a return of the Red River Shootout to a rivalry game with national title implications. The BCS title game, held at the Orange Bowl that year, was not without controversy, as the system shut fourth-ranked Washington out of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Oregon State Beavers Football Team
The 1999 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University as a member of the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. Int heir first season under head coach Dennis Erickson, the Beavers compiled an overall record of 7–5 with a mark of 4–4 in conference play, placing fifth in the Pac-10. It was the program's first winning season since 1970. The Beavers opened with three non-conference wins, lost the first three conference games, then won four straight, but fell in the Civil War at Oregon. Oregon State made its first bowl game appearance since the 1964 season, but dropped the Oahu Bowl by six points to Hawaii on Christmas. The team played home games at Parker Stadium, previously known as Parker Stadium, in Corvallis, Oregon. Hired in January, Erickson was previously the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL) for four years, preceded by six seasons as the head football coach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
The 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State named national champions, defeating Virginia Tech in the BCS Sugar Bowl. Florida State became the first team in history to start out preseason No. 1 and remain there through the entire season. Their 12–0 season gave them 109 victories in the '90s, the most for any decade. Virginia Tech also had a remarkable season behind freshman quarterback Michael Vick, who was being touted as college football's best player. Vick was outshone in the national championship game by Florida State wide receiver Peter Warrick. Warrick had early problems with the law, charged with a misdemeanor he sat out two games early in the season. But he scored three touchdowns in the title game, earning MVP honors. The BCS adopted a new rule after the previous season, nicknamed the " Kansas State Rule," which stated that any team ranked in the top four in the final BCS poll is assured of an invitation to a BCS bowl game. Many teams faced debacles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 NCAA Division I-A Football Season
The 1998 NCAA Division I-A football season, play of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-A level, began in late summer 1998 and culminated with the major bowl games in early January 1999. It was the first season of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), which saw the 1998 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Tennessee Volunteers win the national championship, one year after star quarterback Peyton Manning left for the National Football League (NFL). Tennessee defeated the 1998 Florida State Seminoles football team, Florida State Seminoles, 23–16, in the 1999 Fiesta Bowl, Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona, to secure the inaugural BCS National Championship. The BCS combined elements of the old Bowl Coalition and the Bowl Alliance it replaced. The agreement existed between the Rose Bowl Game, Rose, Fiesta Bowl, Fiesta, Sugar Bowl, Sugar, and Orange Bowl, Orange bowl games, with the Cotton Bowl Classic diminishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Fiesta Bowl
The 2001 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, played on January 1, was the thirtieth edition of the Fiesta Bowl and part of the BCS bowl schedule of the 2000 NCAA Division I-A football season. Held on New Year's Day at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, the night game matched the fifth-ranked Oregon State Beavers of the Pac-10 Conference and the #10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, an independent. Oregon State quarterback Jonathan Smith threw for 305 yards and three touchdowns to lead the favored Beavers to a 41–9 rout. Wide receiver Chad Johnson had two touchdown receptions, and future Cincinnati Bengals teammate T. J. Houshmandzadeh caught the other. Ken Simonton added 85 yards rushing and a touchdown. The Beavers led 12–3 at halftime, then scored 29 points in an eight-minute stretch of the third quarter to put the game away, including a score on an unusual play where OSU's Terrell Roberts recovered teammate Houshmandzadeh's fumble on a punt return and himself ran 45 yards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Johnson
Chad Ochocinco Johnson (born Chad Javon Johnson, January 9, 1978), known from 2008 to 2012 as Chad Ochocinco, is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Santa Monica Corsairs and the Oregon State Beavers, and played for the Cincinnati Bengals and the New England Patriots during his tenure playing in the NFL. He was selected by the Bengals in the second round of the 2001 NFL draft, and played for them for 10 seasons. Ochocinco, which means "eight five" in Spanish, was also his number. In 2011, Johnson was traded to the Patriots, for whom he played in Super Bowl XLVI. In 2012, Johnson played for the Miami Dolphins during preseason but was released following his arrest for domestic violence. He played for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2014 to 2015, and played one game in 2017 for the Mexican team Fundidores de Monterrey of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
