11 people want to be Head Football Coach at Lamar

According to the Beaumont Enterprise, 11 applicants have express interest in becoming Lamar University new head football coach.

Craig Stump

Les Koenning Jr.

Larry Kennan, a former head coach at Lamar from 1979-1981 who now serves as executive director of the NFL Coaches Association;

Ben Norton, a Vidor native who has served at three Southland Conference schools. He is currently co-offensive coordinator at Texas State and previously served as an assis-tant at McNeese State and Sam Houston State;

Kenith Pope, a Galveston native who spent time as an assistant under Kennan at Lamar. He was later an assistant coach at Alabama and Texas A&M, both under Fran-chione;

Jim Bob Helduser, a former coach at Texas State and an alumnus of Port Neches-Groves High School. Helduser succeeded Franchione at Texas State and coached there from 1992-1996, producing a 20-34-1 record.

Other lesser-known candidates are among the 11 applicants, including:

Randy Butler, a longtime assistant at Southern Mississippi;

Ronald Feldman, who lettered at Texas State from 1974-75;

Robert Hargrove, whose coaching history is unknown;

Dennis (Dirt) Winston, a former linebacker at Arkansas who won two Super Bowl rings with the Pittsburgh Steelers, then served stints as an assistant coach at Kentucky State, Toledo and the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos; and

Raymond Woodard Jr., a former All-American at Kilgore College who later played at Texas. He has just finished his first season as head coach at Navarro College in Corsi-cana.