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Davis refuses to bail on Vikings

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By dwight jaynes

The Portland Tribune, Jan 4, 2008, Updated Oct 30, 2009 (5 Reader comments)

MOUSE DAVIS

National letter- of-intent day is still a month away (Feb. 6), but Portland State football coach Jerry Glanville already may have won one of his biggest recruiting battles a few days ago.

His offensive coordinator, Mouse Davis, is nationally respected and is frequently offered jobs, and the latest overture was a big one. But Davis passed on it.

“Mouse is always going to get job offers,” Glanville says. “But this one would have quadrupled his pay. Luckily, he and I aren’t in it for the pay.

“He turned it down, but just like Mouse, he recommended someone else on our staff.”

Davis, while on his way from New Orleans — where he watched Tuesday night’s Sugar Bowl — to Houston, scoffed at the notion of leaving PSU at this time.

“It was a pro job,” Davis says. “Been there, done that. I’m not trying to develop a résumé. I’ve turned down a couple of jobs. I’m trying to get Portland State going. I thought we could do it in one year, but it’s going to take another year.”

Glanville is facing a critical time for his Viking program. After a holiday “dead period” during which coaches cannot contact prospective recruits, he is coming up on three big weekends.

“The weekend of Jan. 11 is going to be huge,” Glanville says. “We’re bringing in all the kids we want that are within a six-hour area of here. It’s a group of about a dozen kids who could really change who we are and what we’re doing.

“The weekend after that, we’ll bring in all the kids from outside six hours away. The weekend after that, all the JCs (junior-college players), plus anyone else who couldn’t make it on the previous weekends.”

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