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FIU to name Bucs QBs coach Turner new HC

Posted Jan 4, 2013 by Roy Cummings

Updated Jan 4, 2013 at 01:28 AM

BY ROY CUMMINGS
The Tampa Tribune

TAMPA – Already on the lookout for a new receivers coach, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are now in the market for a new quarterbacks coach as well.

Ron Turner, who took over as the Bucs QBs coach last offseason, is leaving Tampa Bay to take the head coach’s job at Florida International University, the school said late Thursday.

Bucs officials did not immediately return requests for confirmation of the report, but FIU officials said they were planning a Friday press conference to announce Turner’s hiring.

Turner would be the second offensive assistant to leave the Bucs this offseason. He follows the departure of receivers coach P.J. Fleck, who has left to take over as the new head coach at Western Michigan University.

Turner is also at least the second Bucs assistant that FIU has attempted to land as its new head coach, following Butch Davis, the Bucs special assistant to head coach Greg Schiano.

Turner head coaching gig is the third for Turner, who previously ran the program at San Jose State for one year (1992) and the University of Illinois for eight years (1997-2004).

One name being mentioned as a possible replacement for either Turner or Fleck is that of John McNulty, the former Arizona Cardinals QBs coach who was fired along with head coach Ken Whisenhunt last week.

Bucs coach Greg Schiano, who had McNulty as his offensive coordinator and QBs coach for five seasons while both were at Rutgers, asked for permission to speak to McNulty about the Bucs offensive coordinator’s job last year but was denied.