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Arizona extends football coach Brent Brennan through 2030 season

By The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona signed football Brent Brennan to a two-year contract extension through the 2030 season that will pay him $4.7 million annually.

The school also extended the contracts of offensive coordinator Seth Doege and defensive coordinator Danny Gonzales through the 2028 season in deals announced Friday.

“The momentum built by coach Brennan and his staff this season has positioned Arizona football and Arizona athletics for sustained success, and this extension ensures our continued ability to build toward our goal of competing for championships,” Arizona athletic director Desireé Reed-Francois said in a statement.

Arizona had a breakthrough in Brennan’s second season, more than doubling its win total from the year before by finishing 9-4. Brennan led the Wildcats to a 23-7 win over rival Arizona State and reached No. 17 in the College Football Playoff rankings before losing to SMU in the Holiday Bowl.

Arizona made huge strides defensively in Brennan’s second season, finishing seventh nationally against the pass and 19th in total defense after being among the FBS’ worst defenses the year before.

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Ex-Nebraska AD Bill Moos writes in memoir Kelly, not Frost, was his first choice for football coach

By The Associated Press
Former Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos wrote in a book released this week that Scott Frost was not his first choice to be the Cornhuskers' coach in 2017, that he was ordered to undergo an evaluation for alcoholism and that he looked into the possibility of Nebraska leaving the Big Ten and returning to the Big 12. Moos was at Nebraska from October 2017 until June 2021, when he announced his retirement. In his memoir, “Crab Creek Chronicles: From the Wheat Fields to the Ball Fields and Beyond,” Moos wrote that he sensed top administrators wanted him out long before he left. Moos was widely hailed for hiring Frost and men's basketball coach Fred Hoiberg, but he acknowledged his initial focuses in his searches were on Chip Kelly and Dana Altman. Late in the 2017 season, Moos flew to New Hampshire to meet with Kelly, whom he had known since Kelly was offensive coordinator at Oregon. Kelly went on to go 46-7 in four years as head coach and then spent four years in the NFL. He was out of coaching in 2017, and Moos left their four-hour meeting excited about the prospect of hiring Kelly.
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