Why, then, is Jeff Monken still the head coach at the U.S. Military Academy after his milestone 2018 season?
When it comes to Monken and his fellow highly successful peers at the other service academy schools, a few questions might give Power Five programs pause:
• They traditionally run versions of the triple-option offense, a system rarely seen this century in the major conferences.
• They recruit a different caliber of high school athlete with a completely different sales pitch.
Monken, Army’s coach since 2014, has been linked to the Mizzou job since it became open Saturday.