Tag: Matt Luke

Matt Luke immediately gets hired by Georgia

Matt Luke, who was fired at Ole Miss just last week, as immediately got himself a role: As the offensive line coach at Georgia. Luke, who managed the offensive line at Ole Miss, Tennessee, Duke before returning to Oxford, comes with a heck of a lot of SEC experience. He’ll have one heck of a stable at Georgia after Sam Pittman’s effort. Pittman went to take the Arkansas head coaching job on Sunday. “It’s obvious after watching his teams over many years and his players love him and play hard for him”.

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Ole Miss fires Luke a day after Missouri cans Odom

The weekend was always going to be messy for head coaches. Nicknamed ‘Black Friday’ in the college football world, schools tend to get rid of the pieces that they don’t like as quickly as possible in an effort to show their all-important recruits as well as boosters that winning is all-important. At Ole Miss, Matt Luke lost his job after a 15-21 record (6-18 in the SEC) in three seasons. You could hardly blame Luke for failures after his first season. He was given a poisoned chalice in NCAA sanctions and the firing of Hugh Freeze. The boosters liked him, the players liked him (according to the Clarion-Ledger a number of players walked out of the meeting angrily) , but the powers-that-be,

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Ole Miss confirms Matt Luke has head coach

Ole Miss has confirmed interim coach Matt Luke as its head coach from now on. The school, which is still under threat from NCAA sanctions stemming from the Hugh Freeze ear, beat Mississippi State on Thanksgiving night. Ole Miss went 6-6 overall and 3-5 in the SEC – which is somewhat of a miracle bearing in mind the off-season the school had.      

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