Article: UTEP Hires Ex-Alabama Coach Mike Price


AP Online
12-22-2003
Dateline: EL PASO, Texas
Texas-El Paso is giving Mike Price a chance to rebuild his coaching career.

Price, whose reputation was tarnished by a night of partying at a strip club after being hired at Alabama, was hired Sunday to replace fired Miners coach Gary Nord.

"We know Mike Price is a man who has been humbled by a highly public mistake," UTEP president Diana Natalicio said. "He paid dearly for that grievous error in judgment, and all of us believe he has earned the opportunity to restart his career."

Before going to Alabama, Price coached Washington State for 14 seasons. He turned the Huskies into Pac-10 contenders while going 83-77 with five bowl appearances.

He ...

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