Auburn assistant to run offense for rest of season

From Sun news services

October 10, 2008

Auburn assistant coach Steve Ensminger will run the offense the rest of the season.

Coach Tommy Tuberville said yesterday that Ensminger won't be a candidate to replace Tony Franklin as offensive coordinator. Tuberville fired Franklin six games into his first season with the 20th-ranked Tigers on Wednesday.

Ensminger, Auburn's inside receivers coach, will work from the press box. A former LSU quarterback, he had coaching stints with Georgia, Texas A&M, Clemson and Louisiana Tech.

Tuberville hired Ensminger initially to work with the quarterbacks. He handled play-calling duties under offensive coordinator Hugh Nall for the 2003 season, but the offense struggled.

More football: Coach Mark Richt says he has dismissed two players from 10th-ranked Georgia's team - Donavon Baldwin, a junior safety, and Walter Hill, a redshirt freshman receiver. Richt said Baldwin's departure was a mutual agreement between the two after a meeting to discuss Baldwin's situation and Hill was kicked off because "he didn't live up to the standards of doing things the Georgia way." Baldwin was injured in a barroom brawl two days before fall practice began and had been convicted of driving under the influence in January. Hill, who chose football over basketball at Georgia, broke his hand early in the preseason and recently injured a foot.

Basketball: Southeast Missouri State fired athletic director Don Kaverman and placed men's basketball coach Scott Edgar on administrative leave, three days after the NCAA notified the school of possible major violations. The moves come three months after the women's basketball team forfeited 44 victories, and the women's and men's programs were placed on two years' probation for major and secondary violations. The school said in a release that Kaverman was placed on administrative leave until Feb. 7, 2009, when his contract will end. Associate athletic director Cindy Gannon was appointed interim AD. Edgar will keep his job title while the school waits for the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions to hear the case and releases its findings. The school plans to name an acting coach "in the near future." The allegations were outlined in a letter received Monday by Dobbins from David Price, the NCAA's vice president for enforcement. The school has until Jan. 2 to submit a formal response to the allegations.

More basketball: Pittsburgh women's coach Agnus Berenato got a raise and a three-year contract extension through the 2015-16 season after leading the team to its first two NCAA tournaments. Berenato is entering her sixth season at Pitt after spending 15 seasons at Georgia Tech. This past season, she led the Panthers to the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history and to the team's highest-ever ranking - 14 - in the Associated Press poll. Pitt didn't release terms of the deal, but athletic director Steve Pederson said it makes Berenato's salary competitive with the top third of Big East coaches.

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