Navy head coach Ken Niumatololo will not return for 2023

Define competitive…

They play easy schedules and occasionally one wins 8 or 9 games and it's a nice story and then it's back to service academy football, with the expected results. "Competitive" is being ranked more than once in a blue moon.
 
They play easy schedules and occasionally one wins 8 or 9 games and it's a nice story and then it's back to service academy football, with the expected results. "Competitive" is being ranked more than once in a blue moon.
Think about how tough it is to recruit these guys. Not even the TO, but what football players want to play at a place where their only exit is armed forces, forced military schooling, etc. They would rather play for high level FCS schools.
 
They play easy schedules and occasionally one wins 8 or 9 games and it's a nice story and then it's back to service academy football, with the expected results. "Competitive" is being ranked more than once in a blue moon.
Navy finished in the AP Top 25 twice in the past decade, Army once, and Georgia Tech once.
 
This thread demonstrates why college football sucks now. Every school wants to run the same offense whether or not they can ever get the players to do it. However, this should make EA's job super easy in the new NCAA Football game. Same plays, different colored uniforms. Done.
 
Navy finished in the AP Top 25 twice in the past decade, Army once, and Georgia Tech once.
Also Navy has won 8+ games five times the past decade, Army five times, and Georgia Tech two times.
 
Navy is going back to being everybody's homecoming opponent instead of being the opponent that ruined your week of practice..
 
Ruining your opponent's week of practice probably isn't very satisfying when you're only winning four games all season.

I am sure their 1 win seasons will keep them cozy at night going forward. and he got extra ööööed by covid.

"The other two get it," he said. "All those others who got their extra year from COVID, I'm not complaining about it -- people deserve it. Why weren't we afforded that opportunity? Especially if the other two were able to do some stuff that way. We were in a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic."

Niumatalolo said Navy doesn't redshirt, so he had freshmen and sophomores facing players from the other academies with a sixth year of eligibility from 2020. He said he asked Gladchuk and the Navy superintendent if any players could be granted an extra year of eligibility, but was denied because the government requires the Midshipmen to graduate in four years.
 
"We have to make this a level playing field," he said. "If we had what they had, if I was able to stretch several guys every year ... we're sharing our indoor facility with gymnastics. Who else in the country is sharing their indoor facility with gymnastics? There's times we're out there in the freezing rain. I'm like, where else is anybody else practicing like this?"


 
Navy finished in the AP Top 25 twice in the past decade, Army once, and Georgia Tech once.

We've not been competitive either - what's your point?

We would be ranked more than once had we either Army or Navy's schedule though.
 
"We have to make this a level playing field," he said. "If we had what they had, if I was able to stretch several guys every year ... we're sharing our indoor facility with gymnastics. Who else in the country is sharing their indoor facility with gymnastics? There's times we're out there in the freezing rain. I'm like, where else is anybody else practicing like this?"




The service academies aren't about playing football though.
Also Navy has won 8+ games five times the past decade, Army five times, and Georgia Tech two times.

PJ would've won 8+ every single year with their schedules.
 
I am curious about how and why things are different at the Naval Academy vs the other service academies. I get the academies are a totally different thing than traditional colleges and their football teams. But it seems they’d be on the same level in terms of recruitment and redshirting and scheduling and all that.
 
Think about how tough it is to recruit these guys. Not even the TO, but what football players want to play at a place where their only exit is armed forces, forced military schooling, etc. They would rather play for high level FCS schools.
I'll admit, a career as an Annapolis graduate officer in the US Navy can't really compete with Carson Newman.


Meanwhile . . . he won 11 games and the Liberty Bowl in 2019, finished ranked No. 20 . . . and waxed his arch-rival by 24 points. The last three years were not great . . . only 11 wins. But he beat UCF twice in a row, lost to ND this year by only 3 points, and beat his arch rival last year and lost a heartbreaker to them in double-OT this year.

If Clown had that record over the last four years, he would still be our coach and probably working on the remainer of a 4 or 5 year extension.

I;m thinking somebdy higher up just didn't like Coach Ken.
 
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