81.   Some even hire private coaches.

82.   Some schools in the inner-city or with minority populations might be more willing to hire coaches who are willing to help kids.

83.   Some schools cut corners by hiring inexperienced coaches and using old equipment.

84.   South Alabama recently extended a self-imposed deadline for hiring a coach to this Friday.

85.   Sure, coaches are hired and fired, but most players can remember their college days fondly.

86.   Teams eager to start evaluating free agents and the combine talent in mid- February hired other coaches while the Packers marched to the Super Bowl.

87.   The federation has no reason to resent their achievement or to punish their assertiveness by hiring a coach from the outside and cleaning house.

88.   The key part of all this is making the right decision when you hire the right coach.

89.   The Mavericks might be ready to hire a coach by this weekend, director of player personnel Keith Grant said last night.

90.   The manager, in turn, hires the coaches.