Tommie Frazier resigns as Doane college head football coach after 1-9 season
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Published November 15, 2006
NU legend Frazier out at Doane
BY DIRK CHATELAIN
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Tommie Frazier came to Doane College a celebrity. He left Tuesday an unsuccessful football coach.
Frazier resigned three days after the Tigers completed a 1-9 season. The legendary Nebraska quarterback went 3-17 in two seasons.
"We needed to make a decision," said Athletic Director Greg Heier, who announced the change after meeting with Frazier. "What was in the best interest of the program? We both agreed that it was for Coach Frazier to resign and hand the program over to somebody else."
Frazier couldn't be reached for comment.
The 1995 Heisman Trophy runner-up's tenure at Doane was short but contentious. After his June 2005 hiring, Tigers fans commonly asked Frazier for his autograph. But by the end of his first season as a head coach, about half of Doane's team had quit. Many players perceived Frazier's coaching methods too negative for the NAIA.
According to several Tigers players in a June World-Herald story, Frazier seized fun from the game and expected athletes to act and perform like Division I athletes. Players this season had a positive experience, Heier said, but the feeling around the state was that things weren't going well.
A new coach, hoped to be found by early to mid-December, will be expected to mend fences with long-time fans that had wavered in their support.
"We want to move on in a positive direction and the best way to do that is to . . . make a hire that will reconnect us with our base, our recruiting base, our base of support with alumni," said Heier.
One point of concern among program supporters was Frazier's recruiting. Doane hoped that hiring a two-time national champion quarterback would help attract teenagers. But Frazier prioritized recruits from the South. That approach differed from past Tigers coaches, who built the program around small-town Nebraska talent.
Heier said 52 players started this season with the Tigers; Frazier said in June he hoped for at least 70. Injuries depleted the roster to the low 40s at certain points of this season.
"We know that to be successful we have to get our fair share of Nebraska kids," Heier said. "Nebraska kids are great football players. They have a great passion for football."
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NU legend Frazier out at Doane
BY DIRK CHATELAIN
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Tommie Frazier came to Doane College a celebrity. He left Tuesday an unsuccessful football coach.
Frazier resigned three days after the Tigers completed a 1-9 season. The legendary Nebraska quarterback went 3-17 in two seasons.
"We needed to make a decision," said Athletic Director Greg Heier, who announced the change after meeting with Frazier. "What was in the best interest of the program? We both agreed that it was for Coach Frazier to resign and hand the program over to somebody else."
Frazier couldn't be reached for comment.
The 1995 Heisman Trophy runner-up's tenure at Doane was short but contentious. After his June 2005 hiring, Tigers fans commonly asked Frazier for his autograph. But by the end of his first season as a head coach, about half of Doane's team had quit. Many players perceived Frazier's coaching methods too negative for the NAIA.
According to several Tigers players in a June World-Herald story, Frazier seized fun from the game and expected athletes to act and perform like Division I athletes. Players this season had a positive experience, Heier said, but the feeling around the state was that things weren't going well.
A new coach, hoped to be found by early to mid-December, will be expected to mend fences with long-time fans that had wavered in their support.
"We want to move on in a positive direction and the best way to do that is to . . . make a hire that will reconnect us with our base, our recruiting base, our base of support with alumni," said Heier.
One point of concern among program supporters was Frazier's recruiting. Doane hoped that hiring a two-time national champion quarterback would help attract teenagers. But Frazier prioritized recruits from the South. That approach differed from past Tigers coaches, who built the program around small-town Nebraska talent.
Heier said 52 players started this season with the Tigers; Frazier said in June he hoped for at least 70. Injuries depleted the roster to the low 40s at certain points of this season.
"We know that to be successful we have to get our fair share of Nebraska kids," Heier said. "Nebraska kids are great football players. They have a great passion for football."
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<< <i>According to several Tigers players in a June World-Herald story, Frazier seized fun from the game and expected athletes to act and perform like Division I athletes. >>
What, he made them work too hard? Bunch of pansies!!
<< <i>Who is Tommie Frazier........Joe's kid? >>
Ask Steve Spurrier.
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<< <i>Who is Tommie Frazier........Joe's kid? >>
Ask Steve Spurrier.
Couldn't get you to bite, dangit.