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Article: Litke: Mike Price's New Job Too Too Long
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- December 22, 2003
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JIM LITKE, AP Sports Columnist
AP Online
12-22-2003
Twenty-two seasons as a head coach, 11 as an assistant, five players taken in the first round of the NFL draft, three Pac-10 Conference and one national coach of the year award, always leaving each place better than he found it, and still nobody would touch Mike Price.
What changed that equation, finally, was a program as down on its luck as he was.
"We know Mike Price is a man who has been humbled by a highly public mistake," University of Texas-El Paso president Diana Natalicio said Sunday, introducing her school's new football coach. "He paid dearly for that grievous error in judgment, and all of us believe he has earned the opportunity ...