Dennis Franchione
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"Dennis Wayne Franchione", also known as "Coach Fran", is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at Texas State University–San Marcos/Texas State University, a position he held from 1990 to 1991, when the school was known as Southwest Texas State University, and resumed in 2011. Franchione has also served as the head football coach at Southwestern College (Kansas)/Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1981–1982), Pittsburg State University (1985–1989), the University of New Mexico (1992–1997), Texas Christian University (1998–2000), the University of Alabama (2001–2002), and Texas A&M University (2003–2007). In his 27 seasons as a head coach in college football, Franchione has won eight conference championships and one divisional crown.

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...With 9:36 left in the game, in retrospect we might have gone for two because we ended up with three more plays on offense the rest of the game. It's a lot easier looking back and analyzing going for two.

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We need to play. We don't need to play a game, take a week off, play a game, take another week off. That's not a very good schedule for us.

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I appreciate the people that were here. We're certainly concerned about people's safety, but the student body was awesome.

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They say one of the greatest forms of flattery is for your son to follow in your footsteps. And so I enjoy that greatest form of flattery, without a doubt.

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Are we there yet? I can't say that, but we're a lot closer than we were. Hopefully we'll take another step this year.

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Reggie certainly had a fantastic game throwing and running the football and really only played 2 1/2 quarters to accomplish all of that.

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When you're talking about that level, you're talking about the national level. You're talking about the elite teams in the nation. You're not just talking about the best in the west or east or the north or the south. We're talking about great football programs.

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He was signed to come in and win that job. But Richie Bean is going to have some say about that.

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