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Navy AD Chet Gladchuk blunt about expectations for program, next coach

Navy is changing football coaches. What won’t be different - according to athletic director Chet Gladchuk - are the expectations for the program.

“Our objective has always been to win the Commander-In-Chief Trophy, which is reasonable,” Gladchuk said Monday. “And then No. 2, you win six games in the year, which essentially is the Commander-In-Chief Trophy and four games, gets us to six, which gets us in a bowl game. That has been the constant bar that we’ve strived for, is to achieve those two goals, which are I believe very realistic.”

Navy hasn’t achieved either of those goals since 2019, and now Ken Niumatalolo - the winningest coach in the academy’s history - is out of a job.