Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Bernard (American football)

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The result was keep. Cirt (talk) 01:26, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Bernard (American football)

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Non-notable former high school coach and current div. I-AA (FCS) defensive coordinator. I can find no significant independent coverage that would indicate his individual notability. Glenfarclas (talk) 02:10, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep: Actually, he does pass notability since he was a head coach at a D-IAA (FCS) school. I have no idea why this is up for deletion actually. Also, there is ample precedent for head coaches of only one FCS school being notable. Under the nominator's rationale, dozens of one-gig head coaches would have to be eliminated, which dually destroys the breadth of the WikiProject College football's goal of a complete head coaching list and screws up a myriad of college football head coaching navboxes. Jrcla2 (talk) 02:20, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Jrcla2's reasoning.--Yankees10 02:31, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep See above. Clearly being the head coach of a Division 1 football program, whether FBS or FCS, is notable. Superman7515 (talk) 04:38, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not too sure screwing up head coaching navboxes would necessarily be a bad thing... I'm interested in the ample precedent part though - don't think being is the word though "considered notable" would be more accurate, eh?--Kiyarrlls-talk 04:47, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per previous reasoning. Head coaches of NCAA Division I football teams should certainly be considered notable. I also see a number of mentions of Bernard in the media. A consensus of notability for head coaches within WikiProject College football has been thoroughly outlined at WP:CFBCOACH, with several examples of similar AfDs that failed. WildCowboy (talk) 06:01, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. He was *coach*. You listened to him if you wanted to get on the field. And now you, you wikipedians, you want to delete him? Bah. Edward Vielmetti (talk) 06:27, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.