(670 The Score) Veteran coach Dave Wannstedt declined an opportunity to work with the Northwestern football program this season, he shared with the Mully & Haugh Show on Thursday.
Wannstedt met with Northwestern athletic director Derrick Gragg on Sunday for a role overseeing operations of the football program alongside interim head coach David Braun. That role is expected to go to veteran college head coach Skip Holtz, sources told 670 The Score’s Mike Mulligan.
“What would my role be? What’s the role of this guy? You bring somebody else in that’s going to be there everyday, they want you in the press box, involved in the play calling – the players need to be playing for their head coach in my opinion, the coaches need to know that they’re coaching with the head coach as their guy, or everybody is going to sit on their hands and say, ‘OK, you committed to it.’ I was trying to make that point to them, that there might be another way to do it. It was very fluid, that’s the word that I heard.
“Maybe Skip is their guy long term. I don’t know. But that was the scenario with me. We’re talking about the players. They’re the ones that really get stuck, and the coaches and their families. It’s only gotten worse in the last week or two. It hasn’t gotten any better, I can tell you that.
“I don’t think they’re 100% sure of what they want with this position.”
Northwestern fired head coach Pat Fitzgerald on Monday, July 10, after an investigation confirmed allegations of hazing by a former player. The program named Braun as interim coach on Friday.
Wannstedt, 71, was 82-87 as a head coach in the NFL, including six seasons with the Bears, and 42-31 over six seasons at Pittsburgh.
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