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[Griz til I die]

NAU has fired Chris Ball after 5 losing seasons. I had him #2 on the hot board behind Aaron Best. Curious to see where NAU goes from here cause I feel like that's one of the more attractive jobs in the Big Sky
https://nauathletics.com/news/2023/11/20/northern-arizona-announces-football-leadership-change.aspx

 

[BWahlberg]

NAU has fired Chris Ball after 5 losing seasons. I had him #2 on the hot board behind Aaron Best. Curious to see where NAU goes from here cause I feel like that's one of the more attractive jobs in the Big Sky
https://nauathletics.com/news/2023/11/20/northern-arizona-announces-football-leadership-change.aspx

Interesting bc NAU actually finished 5-3 in the conference, tied with UCD and ahead of Sac State. They had a few ugly losses but it seemed like they were kind of turning a few things around.

 

[BWahlberg]

https://x.com/SamHerderFCS/status/1726632269727846874?s=20

 

[bgbigdog]

https://x.com/SamHerderFCS/status/1726632269727846874?s=20

Never too soon to get a jump on the portal process. Both of these kids can play FBS and I would suspect they'll get a lot of attention from teams region.

 

[HelenaHandBasket]

Yep, EWU couldn't afford to part ways.

Dan Thompson
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#EWU head football coach Aaron Best will be back next season, per his continuing contract, Eastern Washington AD Tim Collins said.

 

[BozAngelesGriz]

NAU has fired Chris Ball after 5 losing seasons. I had him #2 on the hot board behind Aaron Best. Curious to see where NAU goes from here cause I feel like that's one of the more attractive jobs in the Big Sky
https://nauathletics.com/news/2023/11/20/northern-arizona-announces-football-leadership-change.aspx

Why do you think it’s one of the more attractive jobs? I guess I don’t know much about NAU athletics other than Flagstaff is a pretty desirable place to live and they usually have one of the best XC teams in the country.

 

[AZGrizFan]

NAU has fired Chris Ball after 5 losing seasons. I had him #2 on the hot board behind Aaron Best. Curious to see where NAU goes from here cause I feel like that's one of the more attractive jobs in the Big Sky
https://nauathletics.com/news/2023/11/20/northern-arizona-announces-football-leadership-change.aspx

Why do you think it’s one of the more attractive jobs? I guess I don’t know much about NAU athletics other than Flagstaff is a pretty desirable place to live and they usually have one of the best XC teams in the country.

I’m not sure, and dbackjon could probably educate us on it, but when I lived in AZ there wasn’t a shitload of money for the schools…there was always funding problems it seemed.

 

[Griz til I die]

They got good facilities and a decent fan base plus I think Flagstaff and AZ as a whole is a pretty attractive place. They have a huge student body too. NAU I think is a sleeping giant. If they can get the right guy, they could really get it going and they could probably pay decently well too.

NAU is good in a lot of other sports. Once they finally got the right coach in Women’s Basketball, they really got it going. I think it’s an upper half of the league job