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College Football Notebook: UNC's Foster hopes to return in time for bowl
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Published: December 3, 2008
■ Senior receiver Brooks Foster of North Carolina is recovering from knee surgery and is expected to be ready for UNC's bowl game.
Foster had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Monday and is expected to make a full recovery. The Tar Heels (8-4) are awaiting a bowl invitation and Foster will spend the coming weeks rehabilitating the knee so that he can be ready to play.
Foster is the team's second-leading receiver with 30 catches for 334 yards and two touchdowns. He also has run for 104 yards.
■ Clemson said that defensive coordinator Vic Koenning has resigned, one day after the Tigers officially named Dabo Swinney as head coach.
In a statement released by the school last night, Koenning said his role with the team next season was in question, so he decided to leave before Clemson's bowl game to have more job options.
Koenning had been defensive coordinator and secondary coach for the past four seasons. Clemson's defense led the ACC in scoring defense and ranked ninth in the nation allowing just 16.6 points per game.
■ Lane Kiffin has already discovered one aspect of being Tennessee's coach -- needling from South Carolina's Steve Spurrier, who has questioned whether Kiffin broke NCAA rules by contacting Tennessee recruits before he was cleared to do so.
The NCAA requires coaches to take a recruiting-certification test before they're allowed to contact recruits. Jarvis Giles, a running back recruit from Tampa, Fla., told several media outlets that Kiffin contacted him early Sunday morning -- a day before Kiffin was scheduled to be introduced as the Vols' new coach.
Spurrier noted that he didn't retake the recruiting test until after he was introduced as the Gamecocks coach and joked that Kiffin might have called Giles as "an interested observer."
Kiffin said Monday: "As far as recruiting, we've hit the ground running. I took the test a few days before I got hired here so that we could do that."
■ Tailback Andre Dixon of Connecticut has been charged with drunken driving and has been indefinitely suspended from the team. UConn police say that an officer pulled Dixon over shortly after 1:30 a.m. yesterday because Dixon was tailgating her cruiser.
Dixon, charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and following too closely, posted $500 bond and is to appear in court Dec. 15.
■ New Mexico State fired Coach Hal Mumme yesterday and named Charley Johnson, a former NMSU quarterback who played in the NFL, as acting coach. Athletics Director McKinley Boston said he has started a national search for a successor and that he's "looking for energy, a fire in the belly, someone with at least experience as a coordinator."
The Aggies finished 3-9 this season and 11-38 in Mumme's four seasons. During Mumme's tenure, the university also paid $165,000 to settle a 2006 lawsuit brought by three former Muslim players who claimed that they were dismissed from the team because of their religious beliefs.
■ Coach Brian Kelly said he's happy with the steps that No. 13 Cincinnati is taking to upgrade its football facilities and that he's not interested in any other job. He has been mentioned as a candidate for several openings.
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