Yale football coach candidate withdraws on eve of selection

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<p>UConn's Don Brown Withdraws Name For Yale Coaching Job
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By DESMOND CONNER, <a href="mailto:dconner@courant.com">dconner@courant.com</a>
The Hartford Courant
10:42 p.m. EST, January 9, 2012</p>

<p>UConn defensive coordinator Don Brown withdrew his name from consideration as Yale's new football coach late Monday night, according to a UConn source.</p>

<p>Brown had been considered the front-runner for the job, according to multiple sources.</p>

<p>Brown, 56, has been at UConn for one season after joining Paul Pasqualoni's staff from Maryland. Brown had a history at Yale — he was the defensive coordinator at the New Haven school from 1987-92. He also pulled his name from consideration for the Yale job, while a front-runner, in 2008 when he was head coach at UMass. After UMass, Brown became defensive coordinator at Maryland....</p>

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<p>[From the New Haven Register:]</p>

<p>"Well, it’s amazing what a difference a few hours can make. Sources from Yale and UConn confirmed that Brown was offered the job but withdrew his name from consideration tonight.</p>

<p>It’s eerily familiar to what happened in 2008 as Brown was emerging as the frontrunner for the Yale job only to withdraw his name from consideration.</p>

<p>What I was unable to find out is if there was a snag at some point in the negotiations but it seems to me as if something like that could very well have gone down.</p>

<p>Yale has interviewed former Yale assistant coach Tony Reno, Lehigh offensive coordinator Dave Cecchini and Georgetown head coach Kevin Kelly. There was a recent report that Yale had reached out to former UCLA head coach Karl Dorrell.</p>

<p>Obviously we will continue to follow this story and hope for everybody’s sake that this saga is over quickly."</p>

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<p>Jan. 12, 2012 (New Haven Register)</p>

<p>Harvard assistant Tony Reno to be Yale’s next coach</p>

<p>After a second candidate - Georgetown Coach Kevin Kelly - also withdrew, Yale finally settled on Tony Romo.</p>

<p>"Reno was the secondary coach at Yale on Jack Siedlecki’s staff. When Siedlecki was forced out, Reno assumed the lead on Yale’s recruiting efforts. He would leave to join Tim Murphy’s staff at Harvard in large part for family considerations because he, his wife and children live in Sturbidge, Mass.</p>

<p>Reno was a popular coach with his players and in the days following Siedlecki’s departure, he was touted as the coach staff as being the top prospect to be considered for the Yale head job.</p>

<p>There are some alumni who have issues with the way Reno left for Harvard and some have suggested that he took some recruits with him. However, Reno received a lot of support in the Yale community - especially from his former players to get the job. …</p>

<p>One concern is that Reno has never been an offensive or defensive coordinator above the Division III level …"</p>

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