Boy, 12, gets response to W. Va. coaching inquiry

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Good try, no coaching job for 12-year-old
Published 3/7/2008 by Tom Weir at Sports Scope
Is there anything more optimistic than a 12-year-old? That's the age of Joshua Irizarry, who applied for the head football coaching job at West Virginia left vacant by Rich Rodriguez' move to Michigan. The job went to Bill Stewart, who may want to take issue with the reply ...

Little Boy Applied To Be West Virginia Head Coach
Published 3/8/2008 by Matt Sussman at SPORTSbyBROOKS
Little Joshua Irizarry , fresh off perhaps renting “Little Big League,” applied to be the head football coach of West Virginia, and last month got an adorable rejection letter back from the college. THE (MERIDEN, CT) RECORD-JOURNAL reports that after the 12-year-old boy from Southington, Connecticut wrote to WVU applying to be the coach, WVU president Michael Garrison wrote back, saying “the position has been filled by an ‘equally qualified candidate.’ “ Not sure what incoming head coach Bill Stewart feels about that comparison. Apparently, Connecticut does contain at least one West Virginia fan. Little Joshua was reeling from a sports injury of his own (he’s a four-sport ...

12-Year-Old Fails To Land WVU Coaching Job
Published 3/9/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
Ah yes, I remember when I was 12 years old. A horribly awkward age…not yet a teenager, but not really a child, either. I mainly spent that year trading Pokemon cards, playing as a mediocre (but serviceable) shooting guard on a parks and rec basketball team, and learning to cope with the agony of being a Minnesota Vikings fan (that was the year they lost 41-0 to the Giants in the NFC Championship game…it’s been over seven years since that game, and it still stings). Anyways, one thing is certain: I didn’t have the ambitions at that age that 12-year-old Joshua Irizarry of Connecticut has. Irizarry applied to become the next head coach of the West ...

Twelve Year Old Turns Down Coaching Marshall
Published 3/10/2008 by Charley West at West BY GOD Virginia
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. — Joshua Irizarry is already a minor celebrity. In the past week, he has been featured on ESPN, CBS Sportsline, Yahoo! Sports, and Sports Illustrated. Why? Because the precocious 12 year old applied to be the head coach of West Virginia University. Not yet out of middle school, he wants to take the reigns of a perennial top 10 ...