No Biddle to N'western.. new coach is..

[Pard4Life]

The new coach is from in-house, Fitzgerald, their LB coach and top recruiter.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2512178

[dbackjon]

Permanent or interim?

[cosmo here]

The new coach is from in-house, Fitzgerald, their LB coach and top recruiter.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2512178

Pat Fitzgerald won the Bednarik as a junior and senior (1995 and 96), and led Northwestern to its first Rose Bowl appearance in forever, along with the great tailback who is now an actor on Broadway, but I forget his name.

[Marcus Garvey]

Permanent or interim?

The article doesn't specify, so I would guess one can "infer" that it's not an "interim" appointment, as those are almost always specified. The release on the schools athletic website is just as vague.

He seems to be the best possible choice for Head Coach on such short notice. Good luck to him. Being a former Wildcat player, I bet he'd be unlikely to leave for a bigger program were he to be successful.

[carney2]

Good! I notice that there is no "interim" mentioned in the article. Now I can begin to focus on October 28th when Dickie Doo gets the crap kicked out of him in front of the home folks.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

Fitzgerald was one of the best linebackers I ever saw play I-A football. I'm very happy he's getting a chance at Northwestern. I think he's going to be there a while.