College-Football Notebook: Duke's MacIntyre off to San Jose State

■ San Jose State has hired Mike MacIntyre, Duke's defensive coordinator, to replace Dick Tomey as coach.
MacIntyre will be formally introduced at a news conference today. MacIntyre, 44, spent the past two seasons at Duke. He has also worked as a secondary coach in the NFL with Dallas and the New York Jets and spent five seasons as an assistant at Mississippi.

San Jose State went 2-10 this season under Tomey, who announced his retirement last month. Tomey spent five seasons with the Spartans, going 25-35 and leading them to a bowl game in 2006.

■ Fourth-ranked Cincinnati went right back to Central Michigan to get its next coach.
The school announced the hiring of Butch Jones yesterday to replace Brian Kelly, who came from Central Michigan three years ago and built the Bearcats program into national prominence before leaving for Notre Dame last week.
Jones led the Chippewas to the Mid-American Conference championship and their first national ranking, finishing at No. 25. He agreed to a deal with Cincinnati earlier yesterday and was introduced at an afternoon news conference.
The Bearcats (12-0) will play Florida in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1. Central Michigan plays Troy in the GMAC Bowl on Jan. 6.

■ Illinois receiver Arrelious Benn will skip his senior season and enter April's NFL Draft after a mediocre junior year.
Benn, a Washington, D.C., native, said at a news conference yesterday that he thinks he is ready for the National Football League and wants to take care of his family.
Benn is considered a top prospect and high-round pick even after a disappointing junior season at Illinois, which finished 3-9.
He struggled much of this season with an ankle injury, saw starting quarterback Juice Williams benched while the offense struggled and caught just 38 passes for 490 yards and two touchdowns.
He caught 67 balls for 1,055 yards and three touchdowns his sophomore year. And a year earlier, during the surprise 9-3 season that landed the Illini in the Rose Bowl, Benn was named Big Ten freshman of the year after catching 54 passes for 676 yards and two touchdowns.
Also, Illinois has hired Jeff Brohm from Florida Atlantic as its quarterbacks coach and Greg Nord from Louisville to coach tight ends.
Both coached at Louisville with Paul Petrino, who was hired Monday as the Illini's offensive coordinator. He replaces Mike Schultz, who was fired after the Illini's 3-9 season.

■ Mark Mangino, a former Kansas coach, will be paid $3 million as part of a settlement that both sides signed last week.
The university announced the payout yesterday and said that the settlement will be paid through private money raised by the athletics department, with no taxpayer money involved.
Mangino resigned earlier this month amid allegations that he emotionally mistreated his players. He had four years left on his contract, worth $2.3 million per year, or a total of $9.2 million.
After Mangino went 12-1 and won the Orange Bowl in 2007, he was given a big raise and contract extension through 2012 and honored as national coach of the year.

■ Wide receiver Terrell Hudgins of Elon and linebacker Jacque Roman and defensive back Mark LeGree of Appalachian State were among 27 players named yesterday to American Football Coaches Association's FCS All-America team.
Hudgins — Elon's first AFCA All-America — led the FCS in receptions (123), receiving yards (1,633), touchdown catches (16) and receiving yards per game (136.08). LeGree led the Southern Conference and was fourth in the nation in interceptions (7), and Roman was ASU's No. 2 tackler (107) and finished his career with 408 tackles, tops among all active FCS players.

■ Elvin James was named the head coach at Livingstone yesterday and will run a college program for the first time.
James, a native of Beaufort and a 1982 graduate of Elizabeth City State, has been the assistant to the athletics director at Elizabeth City. He last coached in 2006, as an assistant in charge of the offensive line at Edenton Holmes High School.
James had two stints as the head coach at Goldsboro High (1988-2000 and 2002-03) and two as an assistant at Elizabeth City (2000-02, offensive line, and 2003-05, assistant head coach, offensive line).

■ John Lomax III, accused of stabbing Connecticut's Jasper Howard to death in October, pleaded not guilty to murder yesterday, defense attorney Deron Freeman said. Lomax waived his right to a probable cause hearing that had been scheduled for today in Rockville (Conn.) Superior Court.
Freeman says he doesn't believe the state has the evidence to show that Lomax stabbed anyone. But he says the threshold to bring the charges is so low that this week's hearing would have amounted to a "rubber stamp." Freeman says he is not involved in any plea negotiations with the state and expects the case to go to trial.

■ Louisiana-Monroe yesterday hired Todd Berry as its head coach. Berry is a former head coach at Army and was the Warhawks' offensive coordinator in 2004 and 2005 under former coach Charlie Weatherbie, whose contract was not renewed. Berry spent the past three seasons as an assistant at UNLV.