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Florida Tuskers coach Jim Haslett was contacted by NFL teams about his players, rather than himself, contrary to a report by FanHouse on Saturday.Haslett was not misquoted, but the nature of his talks with NFL teams was misinterpreted.
"The original question was referring to whether players on the team had been contacted by NFL teams and not him specifically," a league representative, speaking for Haslett, told FanHouse. "Out of respect for other coaches, he will not address any coaching vacancies until the conclusion of the NFL season."
Speaking to reporters after his team's 20-17 overtime loss in Friday's UFL Championship Game, Haslett was asked about the NFL futures of UFL players, including those on his team. He responded by suggesting that the UFL was fertile signing ground for NFL teams in search of competent players for the season's stretch run. It also seemed as if he was referring to talks about coaching opportunities.
Haslett has stated since that was not the case.
"A lot of guys have been contacted; myself, a bunch of coaches have been contacted, so we'll see," Haslett said Friday, when the question was posed. "So, I am sure there will be a few others from these two teams [Tuskers and UFL championship-winning Las Vegas Locomotives]. DeDe Dorsey is a heck of a player on the Locos, and we have a bunch of guys who I think will be contacted."
Haslett's clarification was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
"I was talking about being contacted about the players," Haslett told the Sentinel on Sunday. "FanHouse wrote that and I don't know how they got it that way. I said that I, like a lot of our other coaches, had been contacted and I meant contacted about our players. I haven't been contacted by anyone, personally. There are no jobs open right now anyway. There's still five weeks of football or whatever it is.
"I've had all kinds of people calling and texting me saying, 'Who'd you talk to?' "
Connecting Haslett with the NFL was not a stretch since there had been talk that he would be a good match for the Buffalo Bills, who fired coach Dick Jauron on Nov. 17 and replaced him with defensive coordinator Perry Fewell on an interim basis.
A linebacker for the Bills from 1979-85, Haslett also was mentioned as a candidate for the Buffalo job by ESPN's NFL insider Adam Schefter, who said that Buffalo will "investigate options," one being the Tuskers' coach because of his ties to the team.
Haslett has coached the New Orleans Saints -- with whom he won Coach of the Year in 2000 -- and the St. Louis Rams in the NFL.
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