NEW ORLEANS — Mike Slive officially ended his two-year tenure as Bowl Championship Series coordinator Monday, but not before passing along another catchphrase, something he is famous for.
"If he lives up to expectations, it means he wins the next three Heisman Trophies and we win the next three national championships," the offensive coordinator Dan Mullen said with a laugh.
Know your Title IX coordinator.
"He's had an incredible career, but he's got a big hole in his résumé with no Olympic or world championship medal," said David Monti, coordinator of elite athletes at the New York City Marathon.
He had been a hot commodity as a younger coach, with the Vikings and with the Cleveland Browns, whom he helped to the American Football Conference championship game as an offensive coordinator in 1989, but now he was coming off a few high-profile disappointments.
To help boost an American team that bottomed out with a poor showing at the 1999 world championships, Bela Karolyi returned as national coordinator and began camps to rebuild the team's confidence and improve the difficulty levels on the gymnasts' routines.
Mike Slive, the coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series, likes to refer to the skepticism surrounding the B.C.S. as the "annual nervousness".
Mike Tranghese, the coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series, said Sunday that the formula for creating a national title game had failed this season by leaving Southern California out of the Sugar Bowl.
He moved in 1984 to the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he served as an assistant coach and was offensive coordinator of the 1990 national championship team; Colorado shared the title with the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Malzahn was the Tigers' offensive coordinator during their 2010 national championship run before heading to Arkansas State for his first college head coaching position.
