(CNN replaced Danny Sheridan with Dick Sheridan, the former North Carolina State coach.)

That period coincides with the tenure of Dick Sheridan as head football coach and Valvano as athletics director.

Old Dominion hired George Welsh and Dick Sheridan, the retired Atlantic Coast Conference coaches, as consultants.

Dick Sheridan (born August 9, 1941) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator.

NC State hired Dick Sheridan as head coach prior to the 1986 season, and he went 6-1 against the Tar Heels.

"This morning, Dick Sheridan has declined an offer to become head football coach at the University of Georgia," the school's president, Charles Knapp, said in a statement.

"We were outplayed, anyway you want to measure it," said Dick Sheridan, the Wolfpack head coach.

The Georgia search committee met with Dick Sheridan, the North Carolina State coach, earlier in the day.

The contest completed an 8-3-1 season for Dick Sheridan, the first-year North Carolina State coach, who took over a program that had suffered through three consecutive 3-8 seasons.

Those losing seasons also resulted in the firing of head coach Tom Reed, who was replaced by Dick Sheridan.