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Owners may be reluctant to raid colleges for 'rookie' head coaches

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Friday, December 14, 2007

ATLANTA -- Asked Tuesday whether the failed experiment with Bobby Petrino would preclude the club from considering current college coaches as candidates to fill the Atlanta Falcons' unexpected vacancy, team president and general manager Rich McKay responded with characteristic aplomb. "First of all," McKay said, "you eliminate no one. Secondly, you pay attention to history. I think the college coaches have been the exception, as opposed to the rule. I think some of them, though, have been exc ...

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