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Was it a mistake to hire Jerry Glanville to coach Portland State?
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland State University football head coach Jerry Glanville is leaving.
In a news conference Tuesday, school officials said they were buying out the one year remaining on his contract, and described the decision as a mutual parting of ways. Glanville has coached the Vikings for three years.
"I want to thank Coach Glanville for his dedication to Portland State Football and the greater University and community," Director of Athletics Torre Chisholm said in a statement. "Although the program didn't achieve the competitive success that either of us hoped for, it was not for lack of effort or commitment. His time on the Park Blocks will be remembered, perhaps not for the win-loss record, for the personality and attitude he brought to the University - an attitude that was infectious among our entire staff."
Glanville has gone 9-24 in three seasons with the Vikings. This past season, Portland State went 2-9 overall and 1-7 in the Big Sky Conference.
Glanville was hired by the Vikings in 2007 after two seasons as defensive coordinator at Hawaii under June Jones.
He was head coach of the Houston Oilers from 1986-89 and the Atlanta Falcons from 1990-93.
(KGW Sports Reporter Adam Bjarnson contributed to this report)
