11.   Blank has also interviewed Buffalo Bills director of football operations Tom Modrak, Seattle Sehawks vice president Mike Reinfeldt and New Orleans Saints general manager Randy Mueller.

12.   Brandt and Mula, both formerly of Woolf Associates in Boston, have taken on other football operations and administrative duties.

13.   Again significantly, Parcells talked Monday like a director of football operations, not like the coach he once was but no longer wants to be.

14.   Broad also will be in charge of the football operations if they win a franchise, while Roski oversees the construction work and management of the Coliseum.

15.   Brown, a native of Spencer, Mass., replaces Barry Gallup, who resigned last month after nine seasons to become director of football operations at Boston College.

16.   But director of football operations Ron Wolf said such statistics tell little of the story.

17.   But how healthy and viable is the Big East Conference in its football operations?

18.   But Michael Huyghue, vice president of football operations, thinks the coach is misunderstood.

19.   But John Shaw, the president of the Rams who directs the football operations, praised her highly last week.

20.   Casserly was in Houston Friday to talk with owner Bob McNair about a job running his football operation.