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After visiting the University of Rhode Island Wednesday, Pete Adrian has decided to remain as head football coach at Norfolk State, where he was 8-3 and the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference coach of the year this season.

"The big thing is I want to win. I can do that at Norfolk State. I don't want to start from scratch at Rhode Island," Adrian told the Newport News Daily Press.

Adrian is one of four candidates who visited URI this week to explore the head football coach position that became available when Tim Stowers was fired Nov. 19. Darren Rizzi, associate head coach at Rutgers and an All-America tight end at URI; Jack Cosgrove, head coach at the University of Maine for 15 years whose contract expires June 30, and Robert Talley, head coach at Division II Stonehill, were also on campus.

Adrian coached at URI under Bob Griffin from 1976 to 1985, and former players promoted his candidacy. Rhode Island's small high-school recruiting base apparently was a deterrent, according to the Daily Press.

"We'd have to go back to begging kids to visit there. Maybe we'd win, and maybe we wouldn't," Adrian said.

Seventeen Rhode Islanders were on the 2007 roster.

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