BREAKING NEWs ALERT: Morriss reportedly out as Baylor coach.
While Dennis Franchione is busy denying his impending departure from Texas A&M, it looks like he’ll be joining Guy Morriss in the ranks of the unemployed soon enough.
The Houston Chronicle reported today that Morriss won’t be back as Baylor coach, after failing to have a winning season or lead the Bears to a bowl game in his five seasons in Waco.
Morriss was hired to replace Kevin Steele after the 2002 season, but his best year with the Bears was a 5-6 season in 2005. In the other four seasons, Baylor has been 3-9, 3-8, and 4-8. This season, they’re 3-7 and 0-6 in the Big 12.
Morriss is 18-38 overall and 7-31 in Big 12 play, with a 3-5 mark last season being his best. Before Baylor, he was the head coach at Kentucky for two seasons, where he posted records of 2-9 and 7-5 in 2001 and 2002.
As for who will replace him, former Baylor star and NFL Hall of Famer Mike Singletary, who interviewed for the vacancy in 2002, will more than likely be in the running, and may be at the top of the list. He didn’t get the job in 2002 because of his lack of coaching experience, but even though he still hasn’t been a head coach as of yet, he does have experience at the highest level as an assistant coach with Baltimore and San Francisco.
Along with Singletary, the Chronicle mentioned Houston’s Art Briles and Boise St.’s Chris Petersen, who could potentially be the most recent Broncos coach to make the jump to a BCS school and the second straight Boise St. coach to make the jump to the Big 12. Dan Hawkins left Boise for Colorado after the 2005 season, and Petersen moved up from an assistant position to replace him.
We’ll keep you posted on this development and the other coaching news when it comes (and it will).
Tags: Art Briles, Baylor football, Big 12 Football, Chris Petersen, Guy Morriss, Mike Singletary