Colorado OC to Interview at Oregon

The Colorado football program could be looking for a new offensive coordinator as early as next week. Mark Helfrich, who has served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Boulder since 2006, will interview for the same position next week at the University of Oregon, according to a release published on the CU athletic department Web site. Helfrich would be the second member of the coaching staff to leave Colorado this offseason and the fourth member to at least entertain the idea. If offered a job at Oregon, he would be the second member of the CU staff to be courted by the Ducks this year. Helfrich was born in Medford, Ore., and played college football at Southern Oregon. He served as a graduate assistant at Oregon in 1997. Meanwhile, there is no support at the top of the University of Colorado for multi-year contracts for assistant coaches. – Daily Camera

Snyder: K-State turnaround will ‘take some time’

Asked Tuesday during the Big 12 football coaches’ spring teleconference call how close Kansas State was to being where he hopes it will be, Bill Snyder was candid. “I can’t see there from here,” he said. He clarified. “It’s a long ways away from where I would like for it to be for a lot of different reasons,” Snyder said. “It’s nothing that has anything to do with anything other than trying to get young people to accept responsibility to do the things we need to do and be able to practice with the same intent as their coaches.” Hope is alive in Manhattan, but Snyder is cautioning against expecting too much — even though he was rehired to replicate some measure of the success he experienced during his first 17 years and to snap a string of consecutive losing seasons, which is also how his initial run at K-State ended. “It’s just going to take some time,” said Snyder, 69. “I have concerns about every facet of our program.” – Kansas City Star

Ole Miss Player Says He Can’t Read

Jerrell Powe apparently was joking. But the Ole Miss defensive tackle’s statement to police that “he couldn’t read” certainly raised eyebrows and has heated up the Internet message boards today, considering his lengthy history of eligibility concerns with the NCAA, including questions about his ability to read. Powe’s conversation with police took place early Sunday morning, when the rising junior was cited for a noise violation for playing loud music at his apartment at The Exchange in Oxford. Coach Houston Nutt said to him the police report made it obvious that Powe was joking when he said he couldn’t read. “Of course he can read, how do you think he’s getting through college?” Nutt said. “Now he just needs to learn to keep his mouth shut.” – Clarion-Ledger