Jeff Monken's name is synonymous with the turnaround of the Army football program over the past dozen years, but he also had six years as an assistant coach at Navy. "I was on the other sideline at one point in my career,'' Monken said, who often refers to Navy as "that other team,'' even though he worked on the Midshipmen staff under former coach Paul Johnson from 2002-07 — that was also the first six seasons of a record 14-game dominance the Mids had over the Black Knights in the annual series. "Army hired me, I think, in part to get the program turned around, but also to change the fortunes in that game,'' he said. "So I felt this great sense of personal responsibility to try to break the...
