41.   For if the Sun Devils keep this up, public opinion could make it impossible to boot the interim coach.

42.   Former Iowa State coach Johnny Orr said if Baylor calls, he is interested in listening to its proposals for an interim coach.

43.   General manager Kevin Crow is the interim coach.

44.   Having been a former player, interim coach Dave Tippett knows that.

45.   Guinn urged Weaver to stay on as athletic director through June, and, in a news conference, the president mentioned a plan to hire an interim coach.

46.   He replaces Penguins General Manager Craig Patrick, who was named interim coach in March after the team fired Eddie Johnston.

47.   He replaces interim coach Rick Venturi, who took over when Jim Mora resigned midway through the season.

48.   He was an interim coach pushing hard for permanence.

49.   He will not speak by phone with his assistants this week, including Rich Brooks, the assistant head coach and defensive coordinator serving as interim coach.

50.   Henry Bibby is trying to play his most important reserve role of his basketball career, that being as an interim coach for the USC basketball team.