Former NFL head coach Jerry Glanville hired as UFL’s Hartford Colonials head coach
The United Football League’s Hartford Colonials announced on Monday that Jerry Glanville will be their new head coach.
The former National Football League coach will take over from where Chris Palmer left. Palmer left the team to join the Tennessee Titans as their offensive coordinator. He had been the Colonials’ head coach and general manager in the team’s first year in
their present location in Hartford, Connecticut.
“I am delighted to be leading the Colonials into the 2011 UFL season,” Glanville told the team's official website Monday. “How good a coaching job you have is judged by how good your support group is, and with owner Bill Mayer, Commissioner Michael Huyghue
and the Hartford fans, I may have the best coaching job in America.”
Glanville first spoke with UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue and the rest of the UFL management about the job a year ago. After Palmer departed from the team to Tennessee’s vacant offensive coordinator post, Hartford’s owner Bill Mayer had a meeting with
Glanville and felt that he suited the job requirements the best.
Glanville said that he could not give up another opportunity at coaching.
“I've made mistakes in the past,” he said. “I've gone where the money was. Over time, you learn what's important. You do what you're born to do. Preachers preach, coaches coach.”
Huyghue says that the UFL’s strategy of hiring coaches who “have a winning pedigree and are household names,” will be met in part by the hiring of Glanville. He is now the third NFL coach who has gone on to coach in the NFL, the other two being Sacramento’s
Dennis Green and Las Vegas’ Jim Fassel. In the NFL, Glanville had a 60-69 coaching record.
Before Glanville’s most recent coaching job at the Portland State University, he had been at the University of Hawaii as a defensive coordinator in 2005 and 2006. He then coached at Portland State from 2007 to 2009 and ended his stay there with a 9-24 record.
He has also been coaching NFL teams since 1974.
He had been with the Detroit Lions as their defensive assistant and specials teams coach for two years, after which he was hired by the Atlanta Falcons as their defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator. He had also been head coach of the Falcons and
the Oilers until 1993.
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