We’re 36 days away from Kentucky’s football opener Sept. 5 against Miami of Ohio in Cincinnati.
The countdown continues.
Today we look back at Hal Mumme’s contoversial and combative staff. The coach’s four-year reign ended badly with not only probation, but with rifts within the football offices.
Whatever happened to those guys?
Here is a where they are now (sort of) with regards to Mumme’s initial staff in 1997:
- Hal Mumme (head coach): In first year as head coach at McMurry, a Division III shool in Abilene, Texas.
- Tom Adams (defensive ends): Adams passed away on August 2, 2006 at age 48 from cancer. He had been a defensive assistant at Baylor.
- Mike Fanoga (defensive tackles): Outside linebackers coach at Wyoming.
- Tony Franklin (running backs): Offensive coordinator at Middle Tennessee.
- Tim Keane (cornerbacks): Retired in 2007 after being defensive backs coach at Memphis.
- Mike Leach (receivers): Head coach at Texas Tech.
- Mike Major (defensive coordinator): Assistant football coach at Wharton High School in Texas. Coached the school’s basketball team last two seasons, but stepped down after this past year.
- Guy Morriss (offensive line): In first year as head coach at Texas A&M-Commerce, an FCS Division II school.
- Darrell Patterson (safeties): Running backs coach at Rice.
- Claude Bassett (recruiting coordinator): Defensive coordinator at Seguin High School in Texas.
- Sonny Dykes (graduate assistant): Offensive coordinator at Arizona.
- Chris Hatcher (graduate assistant): Head coach at Georgia Southern.
