Welcome back, Govs

The Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle had this item today on Austin Peay State beginning spring practice. I imagine there's a lot of folks who've been waiting 10 long years to read it.

"I hope we will grow so much faster," (Head Coach Carroll) McCray said. "In the previous situation it wasn't until the middle of August when you put on the pads. As a result, you lose a lot of that teaching time when you can't really turn it lose. The biggest thing for us as coaches is that come fall we will be able to get off the field and put them in game-like situations and let them play without the coaches standing behind them."

A paragraph near the end of the story notes that McCray's contract has expired, and that he doesn't have a new one yet. McCray's Governors played to a 2-9 record in the non-scholly Pioneer League in 2005, with some incredibly one-sided losses (46-0 at Dayton, 54-0 at Drake, 44-6 at Davidson, 45-3 at UM-Rolla, and 42-6 at Murray State). Will APSU keep him around to coach scholarship ball in the OVC?