HAWK TALK

March 2013

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career came during a three-year stint with Bishop Manogue High School in Las Vegas from 199496. He was named the Northern Nevada Coach of the Year in 1996. I have gone I have hoped to be able to teach that to my individual position group.��� A week after Kennedy and Reid were hired, UI head football coach Kirk Ferentz announced that Chris White would join the program and coach running backs and coordinate special teams. For the previous four seasons White was on the coaching staff of the Minnesota Vikings, whose roster includes former Hawkeye players Chad Greenway and Christian Ballard. White joined the Vikings after a nine-year stint at Syracuse University where, at different times throughout his tenure, he coached wide receivers and tight ends, and was the special teams��� coordinator and recruiting coordinator. White���s nine seasons at Syracuse were highlighted by a 2001 Insight Bowl victory and a share of the Big East championship in 2004. White served a dual-role at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo in 1999, working as both defensive and special teams��� coordinator. White spent three seasons at UNLV (1996-98), serving as linebackers coach and special teams��� coordinator. The lone head coaching job of White���s 42 White���s first full-time role in coaching came as the assistant quarterbacks coach for the College of the Holy Cross (Mass., 1993-94). White began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach at Syracuse (199091) and Arkansas State (1992). ���We���re really happy with the way things have gone,��� UI head coach Kirk Ferentz said. ���We���ve been through a period of transition, but we���re enthused about the direction things of things and the group of guys that we have here.��� Iowa will hold its spring practices from March 27 through April 27. ���I think all of us are excited about what���s in front of us,��� said Ferentz. ���We have a chance to coach here in a couple of weeks, and we���re excited to get back to work. I don���t have any reason why we can���t be successful, but we have to go out and do it.���

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