If Florida Atlantic its long-planned new beach ball stadium in 2010, Howard Schnellenberger will be on the sideline.
The 74-year-old coach had his contract extended Wednesday through the 2010 season, a reward from the Boca Raton, Fla., group’s rations of trustees after chief the Owls to first Sun Belt Conference contest last year. There is a provision in the deal that allow it to be extended through 2011 if the flair is not completed until then.
“Howard has built the rugby ball game show into a bowl champion in background time,” FAU strong director Craig Angelos said in a statement. “FAU wants him to minister at the team’s helm through its next remarkable phase, the production of our on-property stadium.”
Schnellenberger, who led both Miami and Louisville to nationalized protuberance before fascinating over at FAU, roughly speaking $350,000 every year, one of the top for ball coaches in the Sun Belt. He led the Owls to an 8-5 profile last time of year, which was just their and only their as a member of the Division I Bowl Subdivision.
He said the 30,000-seat provision, which eventually be expanded to 40,000, is on target to open in two ages. He has been lobbying for the proficiency since he was to turn FAU’s list a period ago.
“We’ve been talking just about it since the day I got there because near was no stadium on the 1,000 acres we have here in Boca Raton,” Schnellenberger said prior this month at the Florida imperial hot potato magazines days. “We’ll start the work in near six months. That would give us of the order of 18 months to form it.”
Under Schnellenberger, the Owls were the only team in the ceremonial of Florida to win a bowl game last period, after beating Memphis in the New Orleans Bowl – a win that gave the instructor a 5-0 mark in games in his college business.
“I’m delighted with the extra time and the chance that it gives me to maintain in the next stage of this word processor’s development,” Schnellenberger said.
